<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/144/Archeonauts" target="_blank">ARCHEONAUTS</a><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Morehshin Allahyari, Yaron Attar, Yael Burstein, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Quayola, Evan Roth<br><br>Curated by Valentina Peri<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>/// Second chapter of a series of exhibitions traveling between the West and the East ///</div><span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</span><br><br></span>Opening : November 2, 2017<br></div><div>Exhibition : November 2 - February 24, 2018.
<br>Venue : Galerie Charlot, Kikar Kedumim 14, 68037 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel</div><div><br></div><div>Read about ARCHEONAUTS first chapter in Paris :<br></div><div><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/379345/post-internet-artists-crack-open-our-technological-past/" target="_blank">HYPERALLERGIC</a> I <a href="https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/04/archaeonauts/" target="_blank">WIRED</a> I <a href="http://artshebdomedias.com/article/quete-de-sens-archeonautes/" target="_blank">ARTSHEBDOMEDIAS</a> I <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyo1yg27q3j6s7o/Papiers-Archeonautes.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">PAPIERS</a> I <a href="http://www.digicult.it/internet/archeonauti/" target="_blank">DIGICULT</a> I <a href="https://wsimag.com/art/26558-archeonautes" target="_blank">WSIMag</a> I <a href="http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=53081&IDCategoria=204" target="_blank">EXIBART </a><br></div><span><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font><div class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text-box-wrapper" style="max-height:none;overflow:hidden;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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).<br><br>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). <br>Thus, this neologism pinpoints an anthropological universal involved in a quest for meaning through an archeological gaze.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>"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).<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 <br>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.<br><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Valentina Peri, April 2017</span></font></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font></div><div id="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohclzg5uo0ns6vt/DP%20ArcheonautsNOV.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></a></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohclzg5uo0ns6vt/DP%20ArcheonautsNOV.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">Press Kit</a><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/144/Archeonauts" target="_blank">More info</a><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></font></span></div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980m_4837742532349141384gmail-m_4523365307356247799gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></span></div></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="gmail-m_-2987387282966377080gmail-m_2366953591614885122gmail-m_7984191388285941980HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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