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Anna Ådahl: Inside the New Mass Ornament

24 Nov 2016

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Thursday
11:00 – 21:00

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£9.50/£7.50Concs

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Whitechapel Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • Bus: 25, 205, 254
  • Aldgate East / Aldgate
  • Liverpool Street
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An evening featuring a selection of works by Swedish artist Anna Ådahl, including a premiere screening of Crowded Exercises II (2015-16) and Default Character (2016). Ådahl is joined in discussion with writer, art critic and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak, followed by a Q&A.

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An evening featuring a selection of works by Swedish artist Anna Ådahl, including a premiere screening of Crowded Exercises II (2015-16) and Default Character (2016). Ådahl is joined in discussion with writer, art critic and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak, followed by a Q&A.

Anna Ådahl uses the cinematographic tools of assemblage and montage to address the aesthetics and politics of collectivity in her work. This event focuses on a series of works by the artist relating to her research on the aesthetics and politics of urban and digital crowds.

In Dependence (2008) mixes newly recorded fictive and documentary sequences with archive material from film history. The fictive sequences examine the psychological and physical dynamics of the crowd by showing two individuals (played by Elin Klinga and David Mjönes) act out its behavioural patterns in an abstract, private space.

The work To New Horizons (2013) explores crowds historically by combining the aesthetics of Soviet mass spectacles and industrial endeavours with the mass choreographies of big Hollywood productions from the 1930s.

Crowded Exercises II (2015-2016) includes sequences from a workshop with dancers at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for music and dance. The work reflects on the experience of being on the Underground where, through repetitive gestures, our bodies interact with others and with the infrastructure.

The most recent work, Default Character (2016), addresses the human representation and vocabulary in online crowd simulation tutorials, asking the question: which crowds need to be programmed and systematised today?

Supported by ACME and IASPIS.

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