Geography and the Politics of Mobility
dal 16/1/2003 al 27/4/2003
Segnalato da
16/1/2003
Geography and the Politics of Mobility
Generali Foundation, Wien
Bureau d'etudes, Frontera Sur RRVT, Makrolab, multiplicity, Raqs Media Collective. The exhibition presents five collective and recently produced art projects to examine the concept of 'geography' in a way that goes beyond its geo-scientific definition. The increasing circulation of people, goods, and data is creating new cultural, social, and virtual landscapes that inscribe themselves materially in the terrain.
Bureau d'études | Frontera Sur RRVT | Makrolab | multiplicity | Raqs Media
Collective
The exhibition presents five collective and recently produced art projects
to examine the concept of 'geography' in a way that goes beyond its
geo-scientific definition. The increasing circulation of people, goods,
and data is creating new cultural, social, and virtual landscapes that
inscribe themselves materially in the terrain. Here, geography is seen as
a model of thought for concepts of boundaries, connectivity and
transgression within society. The exhibition takes a critical look at an
increasingly consolidated Europe as well as its borders and at the same
time presents emerging formations of artistic and activist 'geographies'.
Makrolab is a temporary, autonomous art-science laboratory initiated by
the Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan. It provides changing participants with
means to listen into data from around the world under isolated conditions.
So far this nomadic research and residential unit has been stationed at
Documenta X in Kassel, in Slovenia, on Rottnest Island in Australia, and
in the Scottish highlands.
The project group Frontera Sur RRVT examines the Spanish-Moroccan border
as an area for mobility motivated by various causes. A complex system of
forces has emerged there that raises questions of gender, ethnic filters
and debates about migration and labor.
The multi-video work A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location) by Raqs Media Collective
from Delhi maps the 'time geography' of shifting identities in the New
Economy. It addresses the gendered conditions of the new data outsourcing
agent: the online working woman, who is the quintessential 'digital
proletarian' of the 21st century.
The artist duo Bureau d'études from Paris conceives gigantic maps that
disclose an increasingly interconnected network of data-gathering systems
involving the military, energy and biochemical sectors as well as the
entertainment, information and social surveillance systems. Their
pictographic installation World Monitoring Atlas transfers the 'politics
of space' to an abstract level.
The Milan based collective multiplicity proposes Case 01 and 02 of their
ongoing Solid Sea project on the nature of the Mediterranean and the
fluxes that cross it. While Europe reformulates its borders, multiplicity
presents the Mediterranean as a solid space that is traversed by vessels
and individuals holding different statuses.
A publication in German and English will accompany the exhibition. It will
contain a foreword by Dieter Karner, an editorial by Sabine Breitwieser,
and texts by Ursula Biemann, Brian Holmes, Lisa Parks, Irit Rogoff, and
the artists.
Image: Multiplicity Solid Sea Case 02, World-Odessa 2002
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