Indepth Arts News:
"Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications"
2000-12-02 until 2001-01-13
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Artists at the beginning of the 20th century sought to work in hybrid forms, as a socially-oriented movement, an utopian vision which embodied the idealism of a new order, believing itself capable of changing, reforming, reordering--totally changing all aspects of human life. They embraced the notion of the all-encompassing role of art: the profound belief in the ability of art to affect change. Almost one hundred years later, into the new millenium, we have seen the effects of this utopian vision: the failure of modernism and its various permutations on a global basis.
At the dawn of the new millenium, what are the new paradigms
for living in this Age of Global CommunicationsNULL We see
that in the work of Betty Beaumont, for instance, in her
Ocean Landmark Project (1978-1980), located 40 miles beyond
New York Harbor, that here is a prototype for sustainable
living. It is itself, both an underwater sculpture on a
massive scale: 500 tons of an industrial waste product made
of processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant that has
undergone a planned transformation into a flourishing ecosystem:
a poetic vision 70 feet below the surface, on the floor
of the Atlantic Continental Shelf. Contrasting with this
positive paradigm for inhabitation or regeneration in the
world's oceans, Cristoph Draeger offers us his catastrophic
vision in his video Oil (1998). Utilising found footage
of the world's oil spill disasters, he comments upon the
way in which we easily forget the question of technological
failure, deconstructing our concept of reality as mediated
by the news media, hollywood, and other sources of stimuli
in the global media-saturated village.
At the end of the 20th century, catastrophe has not become
a paradigm of world experience, but rather, because of its
ubiquity in the media, the definitive image of accelerating
standstill (--Paul Virilio). The magnitude of a catastrophe
is no longer measured by the number of its victims, but
rather by its medial valuation and resulting telepresence--whose
impressive images present us with horror as an aesthetic
experience.
--Dirk Blubaum, The Security of Risk Participating
Artists in the Gallery + Online Exhibitions include:
Mark Amerika, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Zhao Bandi, Betty Beaumont,
Mike Bidlo, Natalie Bookchin, John Boone, Heath Bunting,
Young-hae Chang, Shu Lea Cheang, Critical Art Ensemble,
Andy Deck, Ricardo Dominguez, Song Dong, Christoph Draeger,
Laura Emrick, Fakeshop, Peter Fend, Zhang Ga, Joy Garnett,
Leah Gilliam, Rick Globus, Ken Goldberg, Marina Grzinic,
GH Hovagimyan, Fran Ilich, Eduardo Kac, Yael Kanarek, Olga
Kisseleva, Tina LaPorta, Patrick Lichty, Mark Lombardi,
Diane Ludin, Jenny Marketou, Hilary Maslon, Jennifer + Kevin
McCoy, Emil Memon, William Meyer, Zhu Ming, MTAA, Mark Napier,
Carsten Nicolai, Eamon O'Kane, Roxy Paine, Wang Qingsong,
Qui Zhijie, Francesca da Rimini, Willoughby Sharp, Lee Songe,
Jeremy Stenger, Zhou Tiehai, Linda Wallace, Maciej Wisniewski,
and Gu Wenda.
IMAGE:
Wang Qingsong
Thinker
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