Artificial Realities; the Courtauld Institute of Art, 2016
Artificial 1 Realities Dates // 30.01.16 30.05.17 Sponsored by // 8 Curation Introduction Words // Jonathan Chapplow-Hansen ‘Imagination is not to avoid reality, nor is it resulting in five thematic lenses including description or an evocation of objects or Traces of Memory, Alterations in Light, situations, it is to say that poetry does not Falsehood & Fiction, Selected Paths and tamper with the world but moves it [...] it Transitional Spaces. The variety of ideational creates a new object, a play, a dance which is content is met with a heterogeneity in not a mirror up to nature but - ’ media as the fifty or so works take shape in sculpture, painting, site-specific installation, [Spring & All, William Carlos Williams] video and sound formats as well as in scent. In this passage by William Carlos Williams, A notable aspect of Artificial Realities is its the notion of solid reality is placed against use of non-purpose built exhibition spaces, imagination, and poetry is given an uncertain including halls, staircases, and niches. Herein location somewhere between these two we can see space as a signifier of movement, realms. The twelfth edition to the East flux, and liminality. Martin Buber and D.W Wing Biennial aims to explore this zone of Winnicot explored this notion of the ‘in- uncertainty, in an attempt to materialise between’ as a ‘meeting ground of potentiality what Williams chose not to articulate when and authenticity’,1 which one can understand he left his phrase unfinished and suspended. as the layering of expectation and reality - the It intends to investigate movement and continual vibrating threshold of subject and mobility in outwardly flat definitions, to find object.
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