GLOBALE: Reset Modernity!
20/07/2016.
ZKM Center for Art and Media [Karlsruhe] Germany.
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
The ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe directed by Peter Weibel analyses how to approach our times when they are threatened by radical changes that alter the very essence of the environment we live in: climate loss of control, power of images, globality.
David Maisel. The Lake Project 2. 2001/15. Photograph, printed as archival pigment print, 2015, 122 × 122 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Ivorypress Gallery, Madrid, and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation. SUPERPOWERS OF TEN. 2013–16. Photography © Jorge Lopez Conde.
Weather Vane. 2012. Mixed-media installation, stainless steel, wood, stone, acrylic paint, archival prints, 345.4 × 381 × 142.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London.
Jeff Wall. Adrian Walker, artist, drawing from a specimen in a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 1992. Transparency in lightbox, 119 × 164 cm.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, Leviathan, 2012 One-channel video, HD, color, 87 min. Photogram © Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel.
Fabien Giraud, Tout monument est une quarantaine (Minamisōma – Fukushima District – Japan), 2012–2014 Photography printed on photoographic background used for the shooting, anti-radiation glass sheet with plumb, 20 × 15 cm. Photography © Fabien Giraud.
Armin Linke. Whirlwind, Pantelleria, Italy 2007. Photography, lambda print mounted on alu-dibond, 150 × 200 cm. Photography © Armin Linke.
ReN Observatory by Armin Linke. Photography © Armin Linke.
Armin Linke, operating room, remotely controlled surgery, Modena, Italy 2006. Photography © Armin Linke.
Pierre Huyghe, Nymphéas Transplant (14-18), 2014 Mixed-media installation, Live pond ecosystem, light box, switchable glass, concrete, 189 × 143,5 × 128,7 cm. Photography © Ola Rindal. Courtesy of the artist, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Hauser and Wirth, London, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016.
Pierre Huyghe, Nymphéas Transplant (14-18), 2014 Mixed-media installation, Live pond ecosystem, light box, switchable glass, concrete, 189 × 143,5 × 128,7 cm. Photography © Ewen Chardronnet.
Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual), Pietro Leoni, Angelo Semeraro, Alessandro Mason, Delfino Sisto Legnani, and Livia Shamir, Italian Limes, 2014–2016 Mixed Media, interactive exhibition and on-site installation on the Similaun glacier, Ötztal Alps, 580 × 120 × 120 cm. Photography © Delfino Sisto Legnani. Courtesy Folder.
Thomas Thwaites. The Toaster Project. 2011. Installation, iron, copper, nickel, mica, plastic, and found objects, dimensions variable. Photography © Patrick Lydon.
Globale: Reset Modernity exhibition. ZKM Museum. Photography © Harald Voelkl.
Globale: Reset Modernity exhibition. ZKM Museum. Photography © Harald Voelkl.
Globale: Reset Modernity exhibition. ZKM Museum. Photography © Harald Voelkl.
Globale: Reset Modernity book. ZKM Museum. Image courtesy of ZKM Museum.
Globale: Reset Modernity book. ZKM Museum. Image courtesy of ZKM Museum.
To conclude the GLOBALE, the Reset Modernity! exhibition, curated by Bruno Latour, Martin Guinard-Terrin, Christophe Leclercq & Donato Ricci, is being opened. Throughout six different procedures, visitors will have the opportunity to experiment with “resetting modernity”. The exhibition is closely linked to the Museum of Oil module by Territorial Agency and The Appearance of That Which Cannot be Seen module by Armin Linke. The three shows which are thought in resonance with one another, deal with some stakes that the Moderns are facing at a time of deep ecological mutation.
What do you do when you are disoriented? For instance, when the digital compass of your mobile phone goes wild? You reset it. You might be in a state of mild panic because you lost your bearings, but still you have to take your time and follow the instructions to calibrate the compass and let it reset. The procedure depends on the situation and on the device, but you always have to stay calm and carefully follow instructions if you want the compass to regain its ability to be sensitive to the signals sent by the arrays of satellites dispersed in the sky way above your head.
In this exhibition we suggest you to do something similar: resetting a few of the instruments that allow you to register some of the confusing signals sent by the epoch. Except what we are trying to recalibrate is nothing as simple as a compass, but is the most obscure principle of projection allowing us to map out the world, namely Modernity.
What we are convinced of is that Modernity was a way to differentiate past and future, North and South, up and down, progress and regress, rich and poor, radical and conservative. However, such a compass, especially at a time of ecological crisis, is spinning wildly without offering much bearing. This is the time for a reset. Let’s pause for a while, follow a procedure and search for different sensors that could allow us to recalibrate our detectors, our instruments, to feel anew where we are and where we might wish to go.
The layout of the exhibition itself offers a set of disorienting/reorienting procedures. No guarantee, of course: this is an experiment, a thought experiment, a Gedankenausstellung.
Accompanying the exhibition has published a book with all the theoretical load, gathering images of all the works exhibited.
What do you do when you are disoriented? For instance, when the digital compass of your mobile phone goes wild? You reset it. You might be in a state of mild panic because you lost your bearings, but still you have to take your time and follow the instructions to calibrate the compass and let it reset. The procedure depends on the situation and on the device, but you always have to stay calm and carefully follow instructions if you want the compass to regain its ability to be sensitive to the signals sent by the arrays of satellites dispersed in the sky way above your head.
In this exhibition we suggest you to do something similar: resetting a few of the instruments that allow you to register some of the confusing signals sent by the epoch. Except what we are trying to recalibrate is nothing as simple as a compass, but is the most obscure principle of projection allowing us to map out the world, namely Modernity.
What we are convinced of is that Modernity was a way to differentiate past and future, North and South, up and down, progress and regress, rich and poor, radical and conservative. However, such a compass, especially at a time of ecological crisis, is spinning wildly without offering much bearing. This is the time for a reset. Let’s pause for a while, follow a procedure and search for different sensors that could allow us to recalibrate our detectors, our instruments, to feel anew where we are and where we might wish to go.
The layout of the exhibition itself offers a set of disorienting/reorienting procedures. No guarantee, of course: this is an experiment, a thought experiment, a Gedankenausstellung.
Accompanying the exhibition has published a book with all the theoretical load, gathering images of all the works exhibited.
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Dates
Until 21 August 2016
Venue
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Lorenzstraße 19 Karlsruhe
