“World of Matter” Exhibition
CUNY Graduate Center
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The world we inhabit is expanding. Global population growth, increased mobility, accelerated contacts, rising levels of production and consumption, and the expansion of natural resource extraction have had a significant impact in environmental, social and psychological terms. What forms of interaction with the material world acknowledge that there are limits to what we, as humans, might know and control?
Participants in World of Matter draw upon methodologies from the social and natural sciences, journalism, and also poetics and aesthetics, to scrutinize zones of geopolitical-ecological upheaval. The research conducted by the artists, journalists and theorists in World of Matter coheres around a sensitive reconsideration of the planet’s “resources.” Their projects adopt a variety of formats and strategies to delve into relations between humans and the world, in some cases by way of historical narratives, in others, through scientific laboratory research, community collaboration, visualization technologies, or activist organization. These experiments animate an emerging notion of artistic global citizenship, breaking up well-worn patterns of representation by embracing a plethora of aesthetic, conceptual and interventionist engagements with “matter.” An accompanying book will be published in October 2014 by Sternberg Press. Contributors include Nabil Ahmed, Inke Arns, Gavin Bridge, T.J. Demos, Elaine Gan, Timothy Morton, and World of Matter artists.
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Schedule
from September 10, 2014 to November 01, 2014
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Opening Reception on 2014-09-09 from 18:00 to 20:00