"Disorderly Conduct: Experimental Entropy" Exhibition
Interstate Projects
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Disorderly Conduct: Experimental Entropy is a group exhibition featuring painting, video, sculpture, and installation projects that consider the visual and experiential driving force between order and disorder. In the information age, entropy becomes an
artistic defense mechanism, where the absurd or chaotic can become a means to regain a sense of the real that has been heavily mediated, categorized, and fabricated. Meditating on tensions, deconstructions, and disasters, entropy becomes a think tank practice, providing more questions than answers. With the pluralism of the Internet and ubiquity of technology, identities become interchangeable and immediately shareable, a flow of information that is unstoppable. Entropy serves as a strategy for unraveling, preparing us to be more critical in a world of blogs, discussion boards, and Wikipedia, where information is both flexible in form and concrete in effect. This show is an opportunity to show the importance of putting social structures and conventions in flux and disarray, exploring history/identity or form/visual culture as something that is full of multiplicities and is often more performative than factual. We do not exist in one context, but many. The premise of Disorderly Conduct: Experimental Entropy acknowledges that the contemporary experience is defined by multiplicities and inequities, a shifting dynamic between centers and margins.
The artists’ works in Disorderly Conduct: Experimental Entropy take a variety of approaches to discussing entropy in both theme and media. Through formal process or conceptually based systems, these artists call into question the experience of materiality and representation, interrupting discursive functions and hierarchies. Unconscious fears and desires activate the media, which without closure or succinct meaning are coded/uncoded/recoded. The artworks are devoid of narrative, with a syntax guided more by impulse than rules of grammar. Yet while disorderly tendencies are let loose, the artists still somewhat command them, orchestrating desublimation as a means to an end.
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Schedule
from August 05, 2011 to August 20, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-08-04 from 18:00 to 21:00