Plaster, sand, water, electric pump, plastic hose, makeshift pond, glass terrarium, steel wire;
synthetic sound (dual mono), omni-directional speakers; stick insects (phasmatodea).
Dimensions Variable.
SoundsAbout Gallery / Projektraum Zwitschermaschine, Berlin – November 2023.
Curated by Julia Koffler.
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Collected Fictions (1874-1970) exhibits objects, situations, images, and living entities as a defective theater: puppet theater, theater of operations, or mise-en-scène, a dramaturgy as the product of a memory from the leap of a neural interval.
The exhibition mechanism is exploited as a diffractive mimicry through a dissociation of events placed as obfuscated entities in the space, forming a landscape out of contingency, a time-coded spinal memory extending itself as a cast of damaged spatial perception. The situations present the uncertainty of time-scales: is something being stored or called? Are we witnessing the exhibition of past, present, or future events?
Through the assimilation of artificiality in the exhibition, pitfalls are exploited as mechanisms for dreaming “spaces that spasmodically poses us”, as Roger Caillois wrote. Following the research of Dr. Alan Bodkin on Neuronics, a science that “sets out to empirically map the relation between psychic organization, biological phylogenesis, and environmental stimuli”, this exhibition proposes to reveal the possibilities of deceiving the archaeophysical processes of the body.
The exhibition mechanism is exploited as a diffractive mimicry through a dissociation of events placed as obfuscated entities in the space, forming a landscape out of contingency, a time-coded spinal memory extending itself as a cast of damaged spatial perception. The situations present the uncertainty of time-scales: is something being stored or called? Are we witnessing the exhibition of past, present, or future events?
Through the assimilation of artificiality in the exhibition, pitfalls are exploited as mechanisms for dreaming “spaces that spasmodically poses us”, as Roger Caillois wrote. Following the research of Dr. Alan Bodkin on Neuronics, a science that “sets out to empirically map the relation between psychic organization, biological phylogenesis, and environmental stimuli”, this exhibition proposes to reveal the possibilities of deceiving the archaeophysical processes of the body.
