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: <a href="http://bit.ly/lwrFzv%20">http://bit.ly/lwrFzv </a><br><br>The Otolith Group is an artists’ collective founded in London in 2000 by
Anjalika Sagar<b> </b>and Kodwo Eshun<b>.</b> 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.