[spectre] Children of Prometheus exhibition at NeMe

[Alan Sondheim]

Children of Prometheus

NeMe and curator Marc Garrett, cofounder and co-Director of: Furtherfield 
have the pleasure to invite you to Children of Prometheus. The exhibition, 
opening on Friday, 11 October at 7:30pm at the NeMe Arts Centre 
investigates the landscape of a rapidly transforming world and how some of 
these shifts inform and affect our immediate environment.

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Children of Prometheus

The complex nature of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus has inspired 
philosophers, authors and artists throughout many centuries and will 
continue to do so because of the powerful contradictions which it embodies 
which reflects the ongoing dualities present in both the human mind and 
physical existence. Acknowledging that the Promethean spirit lives on in 
the ambitions of science and technology, which in many cases defies the 
limits imposed upon humanity by nature, the post-modern Prometheus belongs 
to an organised world focused on the technology of the internet. This 
rapidly expanding domain, with its presumed ethos of democracy belies the 
technologies of data mining, fake data, targeted personalised advertising, 
etc used by global conglomerates to engineer/manipulate peoples perception 
via media into a state of hyper-real urgency by dislocating the individual 
from physical realities.

Yet despite the plethora of work in the field, there has not been any 
sustained attempt to think through the larger philosophical, sociological, 
economical, political and cultural implications of new technologies. A 
crucial methodology for this exhibition is to view these themes through 
the eyes of the artists. Children of Prometheus generates a visual 
discussion around this persistent narrative that is still very enmeshed 
into our contemporary context.
Participating artists

Lynn Hershman Leeson US, Anna Dumitriu UK, Carla Gannis US, Alan Sondheim 
US, Gretta Louw AU/DE, Joana Moll ES, Kypros Kyprianou UK/CY, AOS 
(Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico) IT, Mary Flanagan US, Alexia 
Achilleos CY with Egor Chemokhonenko (RU/CY), Guido Segni IT, Marinos 
Koutsomichalis GR/CY
Programme

Opening: Friday, 11 October 2019, 7:30pm
Performance by Alan Sondheim and Azure Carter: Friday, 11 October 2019, 
7:30pm
Presentations and discussion by Marc Garrett, Mary Flanagan, Alan 
Sondheim, Carla Gannis: Saturday, 12 October 2019, 7:30pm
Exhibition duration: 11 October  20 December 2019
Opening Days/Times: Tuesday-Friday: 17:30-20:30; Saturday: 10:00- 13:00
Venue: NeMe Arts Centre (corner of Ellados and Enoseos sts. Limassol)

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Image credit: Carla Gannis, The Garden of Emoji Delights Triptych (detail)

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