Exhibition
BEYOND
29 Jun 2023 – 03 Jul 2023
The Crypt
London, United Kingdom
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Exhibition poster
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Jo McGarry, ‘Invisible Materials No. 1 (Air)’ 2022. Air, moving air, transparent polythene tubes, 4 fans, cargo slings, teensy, software, tone generator.
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Zinong Zhang, 'Secret Safe Diary', 2022. Mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.
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Sophie Rogers, Installation view of ‘I’ll be seeing you’ at Slade SFA, 2022. Laser cut perspex, computer pins, PC cooling fans, metal bolts, LED pin badges. Image credits Marietta Mavrokordatou.
Exhibition
Prelude to Space
16 Sep 2022 – 18 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Fri, 16 Sep
- 19:00 – 23:00
- Sat, 17 Sep
- 09:00 – 19:00
- Sun, 18 Sep
- 09:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 147 Stoke Newington High St
- London
England - N16 0NY
- United Kingdom
Event map
'Prelude to space' is a large-scale exhibition reflecting upon the relationship between technologies and their effects on human perception. The project brings together the artworks of 22 different artists whose practices span from video installation, animation, sculpture, internet art to VR.
About
As technologies increasingly penetrate daily life up to the most intimate parts of it, how our perception of the physical world would change in the future?Written in the late 1940s, Prelude to Space is a fiction novel in which Arthur Clarke envisions how Mankind first reached the Moon a few decades later. The text serves as a starting point for the exhibition, allowing the artists to reflect on how the human-space relationship has been expanded from the exploration of outer to virtual space.
In the same way, this shift from analogue to digital changes the perception of our body, which is no longer considered to be the isolated, autonomous self. Instead, it becomes immersed into data flows in which people and machines become part of a single intertwined system.
Bringing together the artworks of 22 different artists whose practices span from video installation, animation, internet art to VR, Prelude to Space explores this new domain in which the digital becomes an integral part of the material world, affecting the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us.
