EXHIBIT
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Sensory Orders / Laznia Centre for Contemporary Arts, Poland Curated by Erik Adigard + Chris Salter, with John Alderman, Michael Bell, Jennifer Biddle, Oron Catts, Ben Cerveny, Yangyifan Dong, Christoph Engemann, Orit Halpern, Kurt Hentschlager, Susanna Hertrich, David Howes, Sarah Hluchan, Takashi Ikegami, In the Air/C+ arquitectas, Wioleta Kaminska, Nadia Lichtig, Yutaka Makino, Norihiro Maruyama, Saadia Mirza, Shintaro Miyazaki, Philippe Rahm, r e a, Valerio Sannicandro, Eunjeong Seong, Nitin Shroff, Tereza Stehlikova, TeZ, John Thackara, Jesus Torres, Ignacio Valero, Nina Wakeford, Ionat Zurr.
Sensory Orders is conceived around the premise of three “orders” – the organic realm of human bodies and natural entities, the technological realm of machines, and the symbolic realm of human culture. The combination of global pandemic, political-economic fallout, continuing ecological and the social-cultural crises have revealed how these three orders more than ever sense, act on and affect each other. As thinkers and creators, we act as agents of sensory transmissions, but what is the nature of our subjects and how is our practice affected by the turmoil of our days? How do we sense and literally make sense? Sensory Orders is a mix of 27 responses by visual and performing artists, anthropologists, designers, sociologists, architects, historians of science, composers, physicists, architects and other researchers from 15 countries and 4 continents. The perspectives reflect on a wide mix of human, technical and biological forces. As such, they seek to demonstrate, how the separation between human, animal, plant, machine and terrestrial is not as great as we might think.
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The Spontaneous Interventions / U.S. Pavilion exhibit (winner of a Venice Architecture Biennale Special Mention) is a record of 124 remakings of the city, each of which is a deliberate commoning, a grassroots intervention in our shared urban realm to rapidly render physical some form of a collective desire for a better life. These projects are efforts to remake ourselves by remaking the city, to assert the importance of equity, convenience, and pleasure in everyday life by addressing areas that the “system” has neglected, misunderstood, or undermined. S.I. is a celebration not simply of the power of local initiative and creativity but an argument for the importance of inductive processes in a field dominated by the top-down, by big power, and by frozen formulas. AlCurated by Cathy Lang Ho, with David van der Leer and Ned Cramer
Designed by M-A-D (Erik Adigard and Patricia McShane) and Freecell (John Hartmann and Lauren Crahan)
more: spontaneousinterventions.org
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Catalysts!
“Mobilism” is the shared impetus of people, communication tools, and ideas.
•• Mobilism is media of the masses—the totality of graffiti, demonstration signs, t-shirts, bumper stickers, blogs and digital files disseminated through the internet and mobile phones.
•• Mobilism repositions personal opinions as a new universal currency: a million signals in accord or in conflict that can quickly become a media tidal wave. Most notably, it reconfigures usage of languages, communication techniques, and design into a new pervasive culture.
INSTALLATION: 100 designers from five continents were invited to send graphical expressions of their views on the state of the world. The 400+ designs were produced as ceramic tiles or flyers. A printer, high on the wall, continually spits out selected flyers that litter the exhibit floor—they can be taken away by visitors.
The tiles wall is a collaborative installation with 79 designers from four continents
The flyers wall is a collaborative installation with 74 designers from five continents
Visual essay:
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