[spectre] ARCHEONAUTS - Opening November 2 - Galerie Charlot Tel Aviv

[Valentina Peri]

ARCHEONAUTS <http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/144/Archeonauts>
Morehshin Allahyari, Yaron Attar, Yael Burstein, Laurent Mignonneau &
Christa Sommerer, Quayola, Evan Roth

Curated by Valentina Peri

/// Second chapter of a series of exhibitions traveling between the West
and the East ///

The exhibition "Archeonauts" attempts to bring together a group of artists
who are also activists, theorists and visionaries. Out of sync with the
present, like beings from a distant future confronting the artistic and
technological ruins of a lost civilization, they delve into a global pre-
and post- Internet material and immaterial culture.

Opening : November 2, 2017
Exhibition : November 2 - February 24, 2018.
Venue : Galerie Charlot, Kikar Kedumim 14, 68037 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Read about ARCHEONAUTS first chapter in Paris :
HYPERALLERGIC
<https://hyperallergic.com/379345/post-internet-artists-crack-open-our-technological-past/>
I WIRED <https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/04/archaeonauts/> I
ARTSHEBDOMEDIAS
<http://artshebdomedias.com/article/quete-de-sens-archeonautes/> I PAPIERS
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyo1yg27q3j6s7o/Papiers-Archeonautes.pdf?dl=0> I
DIGICULT <http://www.digicult.it/internet/archeonauti/> I WSIMag
<https://wsimag.com/art/26558-archeonautes> I EXIBART
<http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=53081&IDCategoria=204>


The neologism "Archeonaut", from which this exhibition draws its title, is
a portmanteau conflating the root of "archeology" with a word meaning
"seafarers" in ancient Greek. The first component articulates a double
meaning, that of antiquity (archaios) but also the act of ruling and
dominating (archein), as Sigfried Zielinski has pointed out in his essay
Deep Time of the Media, while the affix "-nautes" ideally refers to a
repertoire of figures connected with the experience of travel, be it a
journey across the Universe (Astronauts), though the seas that lie between
the East and the West (Argonauts) or in the Cyberspace (Internauts).

The word "Archeonaut" identifies an archetype, that of a being in a state
of itinerancy, a traveler through time and space, a wayfarer moving back
and forth between West and East and deploying him- or herself in the
networks of the Internet; it suggests a meeting of faraway worlds and
unpredictable junctions between "the pasts and the futures, the future
pasts and the past futures" (Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archeology,
2012).
Thus, this neologism pinpoints an anthropological universal involved in a
quest for meaning through an archeological gaze.

Two groundbreaking lessons have shaped this vision: Michel Foucault’s
Archeology of knowledge and the comparatively more recent field of Media
Archeology. If the archeological method implies that the act of excavating
the past is but an attempt to make sense of one’s current situation, and
that archeology is always, explicitly or implicitly, an interpretation of
our present, Media Archeology, for its part, has suggested that media
ghosts from the past may be a key to a deeper understanding of the symptoms
of our present.

As Mark Fisher has stressed, while 20th-century experimental culture was
seized by a recombinatorial delirium which made it feel as if newness was
infinitely available, the 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of
finitude and exhaustion.
"In the last 15 years, meanwhile, the internet and mobile
telecommunications technology have altered the texture of everyday
experience beyond all recognition. Yet, perhaps because of all this,
there’s an increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and
articulate the present". The very distinction between past and present is
breaking down. Since then, cultural time has folded back on itself, and the
impression of linear development has given way to a strange simultaneity
(Mark Fisher, Ghosts of my life, 2014).

By exploding the continuity of contemporary experience, this disruptive
moment has brought about a crisis of the teleological historic model, which
regarded history as a continuum and as a celebration of the unstoppable
march of progress. A belief translated at the level of worldwide economic
systems in the myths of unlimited growth and technological power.

Against this backdrop, the exhibition "Archeonauts" attempts to bring
together a group of artists who are also activists, theorists and
visionaries. Out of sync with the present, like beings from a distant
future confronting the artistic and technological ruins of a lost
civilization, they delve into a global pre- and post- Internet material and
immaterial culture.

They belong to two different waves : one is the generation of artists born
at the dawn of what has been termed the "end of the history"; the other is
one of the first generations to have appropriated new information
technologies for artistic purposes.

Drifting through a plurality of timelines in an attempt to reclaim possible
futures, these artists cast an archeological gaze born of a disarticulation
of time that is
typical of our age, setting forth a series of "polychronic and
multitemporal" (Serres and Latour, Conversations, 1995) readings of a
technological and artistic heritage spanning the East and the West.

Valentina Peri, April 2017

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohclzg5uo0ns6vt/DP%20ArcheonautsNOV.pdf?dl=0>
Press Kit
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohclzg5uo0ns6vt/DP%20ArcheonautsNOV.pdf?dl=0>

More info <http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/144/Archeonauts>


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Valentina Peri
+33 6 33 95 56 93

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Galerie Charlot
47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris
Kikar Kedumim 14, 68037 Tel Aviv
www.galeriecharlot.com
valentina at galeriecharlot.com
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