Not Only Biennale
V-A-C Foundation –
Time Forward!
When our lives are deluged with images,
tweets, real and fake information, can we embrace tools or positions of
resistance that will help us improve our living conditions?
At the V-A-C- Foundation on the Zattere,
the exhibition, Time, Forward!, until October 20, is a project by Omar Kholeif and Maria Kramar that
seeks to question the notion and function of time and how it relates to new
forms of consciousness, action and sight in the twenty-first century. The V-A-C
Foundation commissioned 13 new works by emerging and internationally acclaimed
artists, they were asked to imagine and suggest strategies to cope with accelerated digital time. The new large-scale installation, film and
performance works, seek, in fact, to question the notion and function of time
and how it relates to new forms of consciousness, action and sight in the
twenty-first century.
Walid Raad - Forward
to the Arabic -
2019
Walid
Raad’s work Forward to the Arabic, explores contemporary
narratives and how artists envisage future institutions in this first and
second edition of an ongoing project looking at the interrelations between
conflict, culture and history.
“I learn to move on the back of an attitude,
Returning to the domain constructed
of coincidences.”
Returning to the domain constructed
of coincidences.”
The authors
ask, “What forms of communication in our contemporary world of
technology-induced contact can be imagined as different, non-alien? What kind of imagination is required for such
contact?” This work is considered an unannounced performance – its energy lies
in the phenomenal essence of contact. Four wells inside the space house shards
of glass; their inner walls are covered with two-line poems created by Eugenia
Suslova.
Alexandra Sukhareva – with
participation – Eugenia Suslova
Ligeia – 2018-2019 – unannounced performance
Ligeia – 2018-2019 – unannounced performance
Where Dogs Run - Zero City - 2019
Russian
collective Where Dogs
Run have created a contemporary metaphor for consciousness
in the 21st century in their
installation Zero City, whereby visitors enter into
and their presence activates a cityscape model containing elevator shafts of
different dimensions, moving through a metropolis governed by programmed,
apparently anonymous algorithms.
Adam Linder – She Clockwork – 2019
performance – costume objects – wallpaper – with HIT
performance – costume objects – wallpaper – with HIT
In Adam Linder’s new
environment and performance piece She Clockwork, Juan
Pablo Camara’s performance is activated by a costume: a pair of silicone
gauntlets and boots are the starting point for his exploration into embodying
space and time.
Trevor Paglan – From Apples to kleptomaniac –
Pictures and Words – 2019
Trevor
Paglan room is plastered in photographs - From Apple to
Kleptomaniac, Pictures and Words - maps
out the darker side to machine learning techniques by studying how the website
ImageNet, one of the most widely shared free image databases containing
thousands of categorised images is used to train AI networks, is imbued with judgement.
What lies beneath our graves? The question that
arises from beneath these human and non-human burial sites encourage us to
consider the great acceleration of time, of events and actions that shape the
world faster than we can keep up.
Joana Hadjithomas - Khalil Joreige – What we
Leave Behind – 2019
from the Unconformities project
from the Unconformities project
Taking its
inspiration from the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant, which continues to limit the radioactive contamination
of the environment following the 1986 disaster and contains radioactive
isotopes that are expected to be active for another million years.
What does this environment reveal of our
collective future, a universe where science has accelerated beyond our wildest
imagination?
Haroon Mirza – Beyond the wave Epoch – 2019
Mirza’s installation was developed during a residency at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, which is home to the Large Hadron Collider: the world’s most
powerful particle collider, which also happens to be the largest machine on
earth. Through this work the artist encourages us to imagine a situation in
2,000 years from now in which the Large Hadron Collider has been rediscovered
as an archaeological site.
Participating
Artists
Rosa Barba,
Aleksandra Domanovicc, Valentin Fetisov, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige,
Daria Irincheeva, Alexandra Sukhareva, Christopher Kulendran Thomas with Annika
Kuhlmann, Adam Linder, Haroon Mirza, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, James Richards,
Kirill Savchenkov, Where Dogs Run.
Time Forward!
- Public Programme
The public programme is curated by Giulia Morucchio and Joel
Valabrega with Varvara Ganicheva and Alexandra Khazina, it is conceived as a
paradoxical reversal of the title. For this reason, it is structured as a
series of invitations to stop and find balance in personal and collective
narratives, and in everyday life, where time is often controlled by automated
algorithms.