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Field Work
dal 28/3/2008 al 16/5/2008
Tue - Sat, 12 - 17

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28/3/2008

Field Work

Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

The exhibition focuses on how ones perception of landscape may be informed by human transformations of the environment, and by their mediation through artistic depictions and cultural representations that are often partial and politically inflected. On display works by Allora & Calzadilla, Andrea Geyer, Marine Hugonnier, Lasse Lau, Jason Middlebrook. The exhibitions are connected to a parallel trajectory consisting of an ongoing discussion with artists and curators, examining particular artistic and curatorial practices.


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As a two-part exhibition and an ongoing discussion, 'Field Work' conjectures two parallel, interconnected, and yet differently orientated trajectories that encompass art, nature and ecology. The exhibitions 'Field Work - part 1' and 'Field Work - part 2' address contemporary perceptions and understandings of nature. 'Field Work - part 1' focuses on how ones perception of landscape may be informed by human transformations of the environment, and by their mediation through artistic depictions and cultural representations that are often partial and politically inflected.

Artist-duo Allora & Calzadilla show their meditative video 'Amphibious (Login-Logout)' which quietly observes the daily flow of commerce along China's Pearl River from the perspective of six tortoises, and lays bare the ecological degradations that have become inherent in China's rapid entry into the global economy. Andrea Geyer's performance 'Spiral Lands (Chapter 2)', examines the radical re-envisioning of the American Southwest through Native American culture and ongoing toil over the borders and meanings of Native American land and knowledge. Marine Hugonnier's film installation 'Ariana', shot in Afghanistan, investigates the relationship between landscape and history. It explores ideas of utopia and resistance, questioning the tools of cinema and western ideas a propos viewpoint and panorama. Through portrayal of the recollections of Lebanese immigrants' stories from the Diaspora, the latest video work 'Pine nuts' by Lasse Lau focuses on the history of a public park in Beirut that has not yet officially reopened to the public nearly 20 years after the end of the civil war. Jason Middlebrook's installation of drawings and wall painting depicts the 800-mile Alaskan Pipeline (APL). Though the pipeline remains a constant in each drawing, it becomes a springboard to explore recurrent themes in Middlebrook's works: geology, ecology, art history, and political economies.

The exhibitions are connected to a parallel trajectory in which the notion of ecology is the focal point. This parallel trajectory consists of an ongoing discussion with artists and curators, examining particular artistic and curatorial practices from the perspective of ecology, as a strategy rather then a 'thematic'. This is in line with what feminist philosopher Lorraine Code indicates in her recent publication 'Ecological Thinking - the politics of epistemic location': "ecological thinking is not simply thinking about ecology or about the environment (.). It is a revisioned mode of engagement with knowledge, subjectivity, politics, ethics, science, citizenship, and agency that pervades and reconfigures theory and practice." The discussion is open for commentary and contributions by visitors are also represented in the reading room, which contains books on art, nature and ecology.

The performance event 'Spiral Lands / Chapter 2' by Andrea Geyer will take place on Saturday 26 April (t.b.c.)

Opening: Saturday 29 March 2008, 21.00 hrs
Afterparty: 10.30 - 03.00 uur

SMART Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113 - Amsterdam
Opening hours: Tue - Sat, 12.00 - 17.00 hrs

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