[spectre] New Materialisms (Station 03)

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** New Materialisms (Station 03.01)
Alexei Blinov, Martin Callanan, Vladislav Knežević, Špela Petrič / Miha Turšič, Goran Trbuljak
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Institute for Contemporary Art, Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb
June 17  - July 2, 2016

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** New Materialisms (Station 03.02)
Goran Trbuljak: Untitled
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Korčula Town Museum, Korčula
June 17 - September 30, 2016
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curator: Darko Fritz

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New Materialisms series is a long-term program of exhibitions and lectures that has been developed in a collaborative process between grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art from Korčula and HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) from Scotland. This guest exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb is the third exhibition in a row, and it is conceptualized as the selection of works from the previous two exhibitions that took place in Korčula and Scotland in 2015, as well as the selection of works which will be presented in the frame of the upcoming exhibitions in Korčula in 2016.

The exhibition is actually taking place at two locations and marks the tenth anniversary of grey) (area which been exhibiting contemporary and media art in Korčula since 2006. Simultaneously with exhibiting Goran Trbuljak's art work in Zagreb, that same work is being exhibited in Town Museum Korčula as well. It is a work without a title, and it consists of the hand counter which the author uses for counting people who (for the first time) have attended his solo exhibitions since 1970.

New Materialisms project reflects historically divergent art practices and discursive fields of concrete and conceptual art, as defined in the 1960s. Project tackles understanding of those art practices through the discourse of post-media contemporary approaches to art as well as via post-digital condition of our every day life, whereby digitality is interwoven with each aspect of our social being. New Materialisms strives to formulate a dialogue among important authors of concrete and conceptual art and contemporary practitioners who work within the post-media context, while assuming the design of aesthetical experience as vital mechanism which has its agency in the process of creating the physical world.

New Materialisms explores the German philosopher Max Bense’s identification of the ‘aesthetic condition’, and his proposition that ‘the aesthetic condition is as material as the physical condition of any observed object’. His analysis pursued the pattern of ‘programs for the production of aesthetic conditions’, and was often used as the starting point of the early digital art in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2015, Vladislav Knežević's art work titled Binary Pitch and inspired by Bense's information aesthetics was simultaneously presented in Korčula and Scotland. The work is now being presented in Zagreb. Documentation related to the infamous clash which occurred between Bense and Joseph Beuys during one panel discussion in 1970, described as ‘the visibly spectacular finale to the project of a rational, mathematically oriented aesthetics’, is also included in the project.

Installation Open Source Vostok by Alexei Blinov, a Russian artist living in London, reveals the materiality of the planet Earth from the period of 400 000 years ago via a series of hologram shots of ice samples taken from the spot four kilometre below the surface of the frozen lake Vostok. Blinov's work was made in collaboration with Arctic and Antarctic Institute from St. Petersburg.

Text Trends by Martin Callanan looks at our perception of words and data when displayed in graphical form thus studying the spectacularization of information. The work uses the data about the usage of Google search engine gathered within a four-year period, while reducing that process to some essential elements: searched terms vs. frequency of searched over time are presented in the form of a line graph. Pairs of words such as ‘now and later’, ‘summer and winter’ play out matter-of-factly. The work encourages the criticism of the process of generating data and prompts the question: what does data actually represent?

Installation titled Voyager / non-human agent by Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič uses algorithm and data collected from the instruments from the spacecraft Voyager, which since 1977 has been travelling across the universe. Existing space programs focus mainly on understanding the farthest of our surroundings and on developing technological solutions, but tend to overlook the importance of implementing artistic development practices and methodologies in the form of a basic question: what is it like to be a human in space? Voyager/ Non-human Agent project investigates the possible art forms in outer space, a composite of art and science, and the processes of science culturalization.
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