Exhibition
The World Without Us - Emma Edmondson & Rose Cleary
29 Sep 2015 – 25 Oct 2015
Event times
Tues - Sun, 11am - 7pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Leake Street
- London
- SE1 7NN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Waterloo
- Waterloo East
The World Without Us (TWWU) is a space for thought and enquiry into dystopias, utopias and our anthropological future. Galvanised by the theoretical impermanence of human civilisations past and present, TWWU sees two artists imagining a fictitious world borne through an apocalyptic event, causing the collapse of humanity, and explores the possible resulting landscape.
About
In this space, a stone becomes a tool again. A box becomes a table. Polystyrene becomes rock. A mop becomes a prop. What is the use of a TV when there is no one around to watch it? What are these things we make, without the ability to experience them? Today the caveman’s functional objects are now museum fodder. Our tools will become stones again. Our objects will become archaeological. The cycle continues.
TWWU is an environment constructed from everyday materials - man-made, hand-made objects, digital and hard copy media. A technotopia. A non-space of dystopian stories, situated in a site staged both as exhibition and nomadic environment. Neither here nor there; located between the end and beginning of possible worlds.
With ideas and materials standing as symbols of contemporary humanity, how do these translate to the new world? TWWU does not aim to hold answers to what is fact or fiction. Instead it invites visitors to question the transience of our presence on this Earth, existent in ourselves and the objects we leave behind. After all, we are still looking for answers and one must remember utopias are never reached; they are man-made fantasies. TWWU is another of these future fictions.