Running since September 18 and featuring work by Eloise Bonneviot, Emily Jones, Paul Kneale, Yuri Pattison, and Andrew Norman Wilson, the exhibition explores how the word «abjection» applies to specific circumstances and «poses the emergence of a new kind of abject lurking underneath
contemporary experiences mediated by technology».
Not exact matches
Based on the mechanic system of View - Master stereoscopes and reels, in addition to the design features and function of baggage carousels, Memory, Market, and Migratory Transition explores the dominance of
mediated experience in
contemporary culture as seen through a journey into imagined and physical spaces.
In a
contemporary context, the new «lenses» provided by digital technologies — from screens to optical devices and
mediating surfaces — enable us to undertake perceptual journeys on which we explore spaces beyond our imagination, travel through time,
experience time conjunction, and
mediated representations of place.
New lenses of
mediated screens and surfaces have challenged our perceptual
experience in
contemporary society, as we must constantly navigate between real and virtual dimensions, or accept that these are increasingly one and the same.»
A constant feature however has always been Dwyer's critical eye on
contemporary mediated experience and society, often expressed with an acerbic wit and dark humor.
The work also pays particular attention to the relationship between
contemporary art as a desire for the production of autonomous forms, and the various institutional frameworks that
mediate its
experience.
, at Artists Space in New York, these artists were concerned with how
contemporary life is
mediated and governed by pictures, specifically as we
experience them in newspapers and magazines, on television, and in film.
First identified by curator Douglas Crimp in his 1977 exhibition Pictures, at Artists Space in New York, these artists were concerned with how
contemporary life is
mediated and governed by pictures, specifically as we
experience them in newspapers and magazines, on television, and in film.