Hello!
I haven't sent out an announcement in some time, so I'm extra excited to report
that I'm participating in Try to Hold Your Gaze Steady at Radiator Arts,
alongside a really special group of artists. I'll be showing some moving-image
pieces that might be familiar to a few of you (but there is a new twist...!)
Additionally, there will be an event series during the run of the show, details
and dates to follow...
Hope to see you there!
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Try to Hold Your Gaze Steady
February 22 - April 19, 2019
Opening reception: February 22nd 6-9 pm
With participating artists: Thomas Dexter, Harm van den Dorpel,
Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga, Lan Xu
Curator: Viola Lukács
Radiator Arts
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Try to Hold Your Gaze Steady is a group exhibition where the digital image
undergoes irregular fluctuations in physical motion. Such an encounter negates
the disembodied nature of digital technology and initiates an important
rupture within the established fields of visual perception and representation.
The logic of the digital photograph is one of historical continuity and
discontinuity. The digital image tears apart the net of semiotic codes, modes
of display, and patterns of spectatorship in modern visual culture–and, at the
same time, weaves this net even stronger. The digital image annihilates
photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic –
claims Lev Manovich in his early writing Photography after Photography.
The exhibition examines this conflict in recent and remastered works by Thomas
Dexter, Harm van den Dorpel, Zsuzsanna Szegedi and Lan Xu. The artists in this
investigatory show treat the digital image as material, and its qualities and
properties as one, extant question that may be concerned with perception,
representation and the conservation of the digital image. Each artist has a
radically different mode of interaction with the medium.
Artist and performer Thomas Dexter’s work has been featured at the Guggenheim
and PS1/MOMA. This time he creates a series of videos with a miniature “POV”
action-sports camera attached to the end of a consumer cordless power drill.
The gradual acceleration of the camera movement turns landscapes into
contemplative mandalas that unveil the often invisible transmission between
figuration and abstraction. As viewers struggle and fail to maintain spatial
hierarchies, the process reveals the limitations of human perception.
Berlin based artist Harm van den Dorpel is known for his “left gallery” project
that uses blockchain to open new possibilities for the production and
distribution of digital art. The present video workResurrection applies his
typical blend of manipulated and reconfigured visual elements taken from a
number of sources to critically explore quotidien life and meme culture.
Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga imagines new subjectivities and post-human bodies in a
series of photographic works where the Iphone’s camera becomes an expanded
brush. Through gesturally outpacing the camera’s panoramic “image-stitching”
algorithm, these works playfully collapse distinctions between subject and
milieu, drawing attention to the fluidity of identities.
Artist and DJ Lan Xu translates semiotic codes and grids taken from digital
culture into a performative installation. Handcrafted objects, textural neon
tubes link with New Age “deep image” poetry boosted with dance. This is the
celebration of the possibilities to immerse in a collective experience beyond
physical space and time.
Try to hold your gaze steady while reality falls apart and comes back together,
or maybe not.
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