[spectre] The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) podcast

[Radio Web MACBA]

By means of films, texts, sounds, photographs, paintings and other
materials, The Otolith Group explores the nature of perception and analyses
the role played by documents and images in the creation of archives in the
post-colonial world. In the following podcast interview, Anjalika Sagar and
Kodwo Eshun talk about their works at the MACBA Collection:
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The Otolith Group is an artists’ collective founded in London in 2000 by
Anjalika Sagar* *and Kodwo Eshun*.* It takes its name from otoliths, the
calcium crystals suspended in the endolymphatic fluid of the inner ear that
help us balance and navigate through space. Through an eclectic range of
materials (films, texts, documents, photographs, paintings, sound and
music), The Otolith Group explores the nature of perception, and engages in
the construction of new temporalities. Past, present and future are
interspersed throughout the group’s work with the same intensity as reality
and fiction, thus destabilising the dominant narratives of Western culture
and indicating the inconsistencies of the post-colonial world. Theirs is a
science fiction of the present, which recovers forgotten moments from
history and projects them into the future. Sagar and Eshun’s work is best
approached by putting aside the traditional methodological boundaries
between creators, critics and curators. They create, analyse, interpret and
reinterpret reality in an obsessive attempt to transcend the opacity of
their images. To do so, they turn to the full range of semantic
possibilities of montage and invite viewers to become editors of their
works.
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