Exhibition
Time After Time
08 Sep 2018 – 03 Nov 2018
John Hansard Gallery
Southampton, United Kingdom
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UHER SG562 Royal Tape Recorder. photo: Walter van Rijn
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Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion, Wallpapers and Display 4, 2018, Walter van Rijn
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Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion, Display 1, 2018, Walter van Rijn
Event
How Can We Be Human In A Digital World?
4 Oct 2018
Event times
6 pm
Cost of entry
Free entry.
Address
- 142-144 Above Bar Street
- Southampton
England - SO14 7DU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Southampton Central
Event map
A performance by Jane Birkin and Walter van Rijn in Gallery 2, based on their textual artworks and with interference from redundant, analogue, audio-visual apparatus.
About
The Performance will take place in gallery 2, around the installation Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion. Surrounded by the gallery's metadata from previous exhibitions we perform, read and share our ideas about text based art, data and archives with analogue/digital apparatus. Today our lives are organised through databases. Just look at your mobile phone, it's full of them. And through everything we do, we generate enormous amounts of data that is being collected, siphoned off and sold, with and without our knowledge. Have we already reached a point where our data is more important than us as a human being? In the installation Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion I present data as the art object. I am wondering where does the artobject stop? Is there a boundary between object and data? I know, too many questions. In an early version of the performance (at the SO: To Speak Festival) we asked: How Can You & I Ever Be Free In The 21stC? Any answers?http://www.jhg.art/event-detail/324-artist-performance-walter-van-rijn-and-jane-birkin/
