{"id":1298,"date":"2016-05-17T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/joyyzzaa\/?p=171"},"modified":"2016-05-17T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:33:30","slug":"kw-institut-for-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/kw-institut-for-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"KW Institut for Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SECRET SURFACE<\/div>\n
WHERE MEANING MATERIALIZES<\/div>\n
Group exhibition<\/div>\n
14.2.<\/div>\n
\u2013<\/div>\n
1.5.16<\/p>\n

“In his terror of chaos, (man) begins by putting up an umbrella between himself and the everlasting chaos. Then he paints the underside of his umbrella like a firmament. Then he parades around, lives, and dies under his umbrella. Bequeathed to his descendants, the umbrella becomes a dome, a vault, and men at last begin to feel that something is wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n

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D.H. Lawrence<\/p>\n

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Departing from the traditional coordinates of the occidental world-view, the exhibition SECRET SURFACE asks where \u2013\u200a and more importantly, how \u2013\u200a meaning may materialize.<\/p>\n

Through our permanent reference to a \u201cbeyond\u201d (be it the horizon, the universe, or the ultimate \u201cbeyond\u201d death), an opposition is set up in which these depths are regarded as the ordinary\u2019s other, which provide direction to our existence, and which implicitly devalue the surface. People and things are considered superficial if they lack complexity and intensity. SECRET SURFACE turns this logic upside down, and presents contemporary artworks that conceive of the surface as the location of experience itself, both in terms of subjectivity and towards the outer world.<\/p>\n

With contributions by niv Acosta, Auto Italia (Kate Cooper, Marianne Forrest, Andrew Kerton, and Jess Wiesner), Trisha Baga, Anna Barham, Eduardo Basualdo, Viktoria Binschtok, Gwenneth Boelens, Beth Collar, Hollis Frampton, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Andy Holden, Alex Israel, Philipp Lachenmann, Mark Leckey, Lawrence Lek, Ying Miao, Philippe Parreno, Elizabeth Price, Naufus Ram\u00edrez-Figueroa, Emily Roysdon, Georgia Sagri, Prem Sahib, Nora Schultz, Katharina Sieverding, Reena Spaulings, Patrick Staff and Cara Tolmie, Philipp Timischl, Frances Stark, and Martijn in ‘t Veld.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Visiting this exhibit on 30\/\/4, the gallerie was standing-room only, with artists and enthusiasts crowding into the halls floor by floor for a look at the strange collection of works of this surface-dominant installation.<\/div>\n
There were many interpretations and elaborations upon the theme, but probably the most amusing was Beth Collar’s ISLAND OF THE DEAD: a projection of an out of focus index finger pointing at an equally out of focus asymmetrical dark shadow. The single phrase “all of the dead go there. there. all of the dead go there.”was repeated hundreds of times with the hand gesturing towards the dark area occasionally moving closer to or even through the stain. Eventually the image comes into focus, as a raw outcropped volcanic island, and the audio adjusts accordingly: “look at that rock over there. it’s the island of the dead. look. at that rock over there. the island of the dead” The film went on and on, and regardless of how much definition the image gained, there was little clarity. As the phrase was repeated, meaning dropped from the words altogether. “all” “dead” “go” “there” “island” were just as insubstantial as the projection itself. This installation was on the first floor, where\u00a0 “the prologue Secret of the Surface introduces the subject matter and demonstrates that surfaces appear seductive because they can never be completely experienced visually”<\/div>\n
Overall, an interesting renditions on the theme throughout, from addressing “social norms as a surface from which the individual can gain opportunities for action more through appropriation and varying repetition than attempted dissociation.” to a “media defined\/virtual realm of existence with the screen as surface that mediates the relationship between individual and surrounding.”<\/div>\n
This show ended on the 30th of April, but the gallery is well worth checking out for other installations.
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SECRET SURFACE
\nWHERE MEANING MATERIALIZES
\nGroup exhibition
\n14.2.
\n–
\n1.5.16
\n“In his terror of chaos, (man) begins by putting up an umbrella between himself and the everlasting chaos. Then he paints …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}