[spectre] HICA + grey) (area ::: Concretely Immaterial
Darko Fritz
fritz.d at chello.nl
Thu Jul 21 14:35:42 CEST 2011
HICA, the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire,
Scotland
and
grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art, Korcula, Croatia
presents
Concretely Immaterial
25 July - 11 September, 2011
This collaborative project will form an exhibition in two parts,
showing at grey) (area space of contemporary and media art, Korčula,
Croatia, from 25th July - 7th August, and HICA, the Highland Institute
for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14th August -
11th September.
Artists showing at grey) (area will be Eloi Puig (Spain), Thomson and
Craighead (UK) and Geoff Lucas (UK). Artists showing at HICA will be
Samuel Cepeda (Mexico), Nina Czegledy (Canada)/ Marcus Neustetter
(South-Africa), Darko Fritz (Croatia / Netherlands), Andreja Kulunčić
(Croatia), Edita Pecotić (Croatia / UK), Transfer (Croatia) and Goran
Trbuljak (Croatia).
The exhibition explores the possible physical nature of thought and
the ‘virtual’. Virtual states and processes are variously employed
in the artworks, especially through computer technology, though, in
line with the title, Concretely Immaterial, the exhibition proposes
these processes, as well as such things as the works’ effects in the
spaces of the galleries, and the experience of the viewers, as
substantial and real. This sense is perhaps exemplified by Darko
Fritz’ presentation of the Internet error-message 204_NO_CONTENT.
The collaborative form of the exhibition provides a framework for this
exploration, as both galleries are at some distance from each other,
and occupy what might be considered remote locations; viewers, it is
expected, will experience the exhibition at least partly through
technology or their imaginations.
The relation of physicality and thought is also explored in the works
themselves: Samuel Cepeda’s Clouds have no Nation parallels our
knowledge of reality with the physical nature of clouds, a nature
which science has difficulty in determining. Edita Pecotić’s
Temporary Internet Files are time-lapse videos of a transforming
landscape that display various layers of information, both real and
virtual. Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter’s book project, Visual
Collider, refers to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most
powerful particle accelerator and the quantum effects it aimed to
observe: analogous reactions are created for the viewer, prompting
uncertain responses through juxtaposed imagery.
Time, as an essential aspect of this relation, is emphasized in works
such as Andreja Kulunčić’s examination of the people of
Korčula’s changing attitude to their city through history, or Geoff
Lucas’ work, an animated text considering the paintings of Jackson
Pollock and the concretization of individual actions in time and space.
The exhibition has been curated by Darko Fritz and HICA.
Concretely Immaterial, at HICA, has been supported by the Henry Moore
Foundation.
It will run at the Korcula Town Museum, Croatia, from 25 July - 7
August, and HICA, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14 August - 11
September.
grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art
http://grey-area.org
Gradski muzej Korcula / Korcula Town Museum, Trg Sv. Marka bb,
http://www.gm-korcula.com
HICA http://www.h-i-c-a.org
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