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“The material basis of media technologies – and books are only one example – is changing, for which historical perspectives might give not only comforting back-up (‘nothing is as permanent as change’) but also ideas to push the change forward.” (Jussi Parikka, 2012)
We can certainly talk about change; our present landscape is a space where the digital and physical have become synonymous, which many believe to be signaling the coming of an ontology-less future, through the accelerated disruption of cultural value. In this light old standards show their age and obsolescence in the face of the new, and with each new wave of informational overload we are further alienated by the system, that revolves around an economy of monetary circulation. All these factors come together to push a re-evaluation of identity and the human value. This brings to mind the genealogy of currency, articulated by Joseph Beuys during the discussion entitled What is money? : “Of course ‘Geld’ [‘money’] comes from ‘Gold’, same etymology. But it comes equally from ‘Geltung’ [‘validity’], meaning the value people fix based on their perception of a natural right. The word ‘Geltung’ is rooted in representations of a natural right, while the word ‘Gold’ is rooted in the economy of barter!” (Joseph Beuys, 2012).
In this light, Geltung [validity]: perception of a natural right brings together four artistic investigations that re-evaluate established methods of financial exchange bestowing new material values and identities to their subjects. In a landscape where monetary currency is pinnacle, the artists interrogate notions of personal and individual history, locality and its impact in identity and the framework that contains our cultural objects.
Diogo da Cruz’s work, WORDCOIN (2016 – Current), proposes the implementation of a new currency, that will give a literal value to each one’s speech. By creating The Bank for Argumentation, the costumer-museum-goer will have the opportunity to trust his or hers arguments to an institution that can save and trade them, giving the deserved and objective exposure to their ideas. Max Dovey presents Breath (BRH) (2017), a digital currency that is mined through human respiration. The installation combines breathing and micro-computers to mine, store and trade human breath as a virtual currency on the crypto-market(s). The market value of BRH is determined by the inflation created by respiratory miners who participate in the physical installation. Felicity Hammond’s artworks draws upon images from her own archive, using documents of the landscape and found images online; those of both existing and imagined future spaces. Hammond utilises particular motifs and structures that respond specifically to the digital representations found online of Dundee’s vast regeneration programme. For I keep forgetting I’ve been to Tokyo: GAIDEN (2017), Petra Szemán follows the virtual self through parallel and intersecting realities, along the departure-initiation-return structure of a hero’s journey. Drawing upon personal and/or constructed experiences, the work explores the idea of a non-localised identity that’s an archive of accumulated personal mythologies acquired from a multitude of realities.
An offline/online exhibition curated by Alejandro Ball and Inês Costa
Opening night: 27 October 2017, 7pm – 9pm
Performance part of NEoN Festival: 9 November 2017, 7pm – 8pm
Supported by Creative Scotland, University of Dundee and Leisure and Culture Dundee
NYC
I better be careful or I may end up in a "Commute" series. I love how simple this is. I took it in the morning thinking of and inspired by a minimalistic series a friend of mine is doing instagram.
But I never thought I would like it enough to make it picture of the day. Everything we see is matter of perception. This picture is hyper real but I imagine it printed on metal and shiny.
It is not what you get in life is how you deal with it. For me today is a wonderful opportunity to re invent myself and make it a good day.
Wait why this optimism?
Life is good :)
Day 88/365
At the end of Monday; the days kind of blend all together, my perception of things was rather fuzzed and blurred around the edges.
The group I was with went for pizza, and we ended up at a resturant in the inside what I believe was the Metropolitan? All i know it was beside the Cosmopolitan.
One of the many shots that turned out with camera shake; i didn"t walk around with my tripod any of the days I was there :(