“Setting Out” Exhibition
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Setting Out seeks to untangle the terms that motivate and define contemporary expeditions. It holds in one hand the historical legacy of science, art, and society and their pursuit of all knowable and natural frontiers. It holds technology in its other hand and its connivance with human curiosity to see beyond each horizon. Together these fields create an image of the edge of human understanding.
As curators, we set out on an exploration for work that represents the ethos and praxis of expeditions. The works we found demonstrate a recurrent set of practices and sentiments that circumscribe exploration’s essence. It didn’t matter if the explorer was an artist or scientist, or if the subject was cellular or celestial. The human preoccupation with the frontier - where the knowable bleeds into the unknowable - holds steady at all scales. As such, we found that to explore entails the desire to search as well as the impulse to share.
The works included in Setting Out all meet on this field of desire and dissemination. The language, methodologies, and influences that inform each are fluid. The explorer is at once a scientist-artist who creates the ground for their expedition as their process of exploration unfolds. In their hands, technology expresses a DIY plasticity, bending and twisting so that new images may be transmitted back.
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Schedule
from January 21, 2016 to March 05, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-01-20 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
James Balog, Captured Landscape Team, Bruce Coffland, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Tacita Dean, Annabel Elgar, William Lamson, Charles Lindsay, Drew Ludwig, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Neighborhood Watch Team, Heidi Neilson, Claudia O’Steen, Andrés Padilla Domene, Katie Paterson, Ivan Puig, Robert Rauschenberg, Joel Slayton, The X-Hunters