Marfa Dialogues / Houston will conclude with «From Hyperlocal to Hyperobject: Art, Ecology, and OOO», a conversation with Rice University professor Timothy Morton, author
of Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013) and Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (2016) among many other publications and essays; and international award winning photographer Mandy Barker from Leeds, UK.
Could we imagine that a call for portfolios such as Regionale, is a kind
of hyperobject?
Not exact matches
Via aesthetics, direct sensory experience, speculative explorations, and dramatic fluctuations in scale, the artists in
Hyperobjects reflect various facets
of this monumental theory.
Hyperobjects is made possible by the generous support
of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Brown Foundation Inc.; City
of Marfa; Creative Industries Fund NL; Fairfax Dorn & Marc Glimcher; Kristina Van Dyke & Jeff Fort; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; Virginia Lebermann & Family; Melony & Adam Lewis; George S. Loening; National Endowment for the Arts; PACE Gallery; Stroom Den Haag; Texas Commission
of the Arts; the Ballroom Marfa Board
of Trustees; and Ballroom Marfa members.
Morton has characterized the phase we are in as the «Asymmetrical Phase» in which forces beyond our cognition that he calls «
hyperobjects» take on a life
of their own, much like the objects we create and house in a Museum develop a life removed from their maker.
In his 2013 book,
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, Morton defines hyperobjects as entities that are bewilderingly huge — global warming, plastic in the ocean, nuclear waste — and seemingly incom
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End
of the World, Morton defines
hyperobjects as entities that are bewilderingly huge — global warming, plastic in the ocean, nuclear waste — and seemingly incom
hyperobjects as entities that are bewilderingly huge — global warming, plastic in the ocean, nuclear waste — and seemingly incomprehensible.
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce
Hyperobjects, a group exhibition co-organized by philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton and Ballroom Marfa Director & Curator Laura Copelin, engaging ideas from Morton's theory to confront the overwhelming scale
of today's ecological crisis.
Both authors will discuss the relationship
of the idea
of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas
of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought,
Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)
Tara Donovan will be the subject
of a solo - exhibition at Fieldwork, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Denver (21 September 2018 - 27 January 2019) and included in the group exhibition
Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, TX, (13 April - October 2018).
Timothy Morton spoke with artist and Art Books in Review Editor Greg Lindquist to discuss his new book
Hyperobjects (University
of Minnesota Press, 2013).
The show is a group exhibition inspired by the ideas in his book about his invented term: «the
hyperobject,» which he writes, «describe [s] all kinds
of things that you can study and think about and compute, but that are not so easy to see directly... not just a styrofoam cup or two, but all the styrofoam on Earth, ever.»
This year it's
Hyperobjects, a collaboration between philosopher Timothy Morton — a fellow Texan, who wrote a book called
Hyperobjects — and Laura Copelin, executive director and curator
of Ballroom Marfa.
Ballroom Marfa also opens
Hyperobjects on April 13, a group exhibition co-organized by philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton and Ballroom Marfa Director & Curator Laura Copelin, and involves «engaging ideas from Morton's theory to confront the overwhelming scale
of today's ecological crisis.»