Spacetime Private View II
Event Information
Using Albert Einstein’s declaration that "space and time conceived separately have become empty shadows, and only the combination of both e
About this event
Here are some questions, which we shall address in the show.
• What is the role of nostalgia within human subjectivity?
• How do we render ourselves immortal to posterity through art if the future of our planet isn’t certain?
• Why is it so important to humanity to be immortal?
• How do we overcome spacetime with the help of Euclidean, 3 dimensional space? How does excessive travel in a globalised world affect you sense of time?
Artworks will include:
1. Alexandra Dementieva’s “Sun Moves Around Us” exploring the transition of time through a prism.
2. Alexander Ugay’s 2015 “Earth and Shape”, showing a digitized 16mm film about his Soviet past.
3. Alicia Kremser’s video “Utopia” and her installation “Space and Depth” focus on a delicate way of non-narrative storytelling in relation to the theme of spacetime.
4. Anvar Musrepov's 3D human bunny hologram, featuring a quotations of lyrical essays about spacetime by author, Alexander Kan.
5. Aurélie Dubois’s 2016 video art pieces « Amour Vision 3 » and « Pierrote Monkey » about destabilising our notion of stigma and social taboo.
6. Azimbek Muratov’s 2020 “Black Hole”, featuring a comic strip about his metaphysical, experiences.
7. Christian Marclay’s 2010 “The Clock”, a looped 24-hour supercut of film & TV clips featuring clocks synchronised with realtime.
8. Dan Lin’s «2019 « Space Invaders », exploring mankind’s evolution in time through technology.
9. Daria Nurtazina’s “I am on Earth” presents her digital surrealistic composition with an image of a landscape with a human body.
10. Helle Rask Crawford’s “Loss“ portrays a sculpture, where the pregnant woman is distant from, but connected through time to the ultimate death.
11. Hsuan-Han Wu’s “Untitled” and “Racing Thoughts” show a series of drawings as the birth of space.
12. James Reid’s “Dead Space and Four Horsemen” prints present the concept of spacetime in four dimensions lends itself to a view of our existence in three dimensions.
14. Jon Rafman’s post-apocalyptic narrative “Neon Parallel 1996”: part live-action footage, video game sequences, simulated chat, poetic voiceover and virtual landscape, Neon Parallel 1996 .
15. Katya Kan’s “Timespace” video art piece, inspired by the Icelandic Old Schoolhouse residency.
16. Michael Pybus's post-modern video montage "Growing Vegetables", focusing on the ironic impact of modern advertising on culture and fashion.
17. Sandrine Elberg’s « M.O.O.N » photo series is a monograph dedicated to Valentina Terechkova, the first woman in Space.
FYI : This group show will be open until January 28th 2022 by appointment only after this private view event.
Doors open at 7 pm for visitors to see the art and musicians will start playing at 8 pm.
Musician lineup:
Mircha Ivens
Ralpha
Musician bios:
Mircha Ivens:
“Vaine Man is the new enigma
of the underground electronica in the search for the ego of his generation...”
The Vaine Man describes his work as 'Trent Reznor with a Freddie Mercury’ complex trying to convey Jung’s The Red book to a tripping audience at Berghain via the medium of a pop song. In actuality he's more like a pretty boy Nosferatu translating The Little Prince into the form of a Gnarls Barkley song for a gig at Slimelight.