ORCHESTRATED FREEDOM
An exhibition resulting from ROOM's Artist in Residency Programme of new works by
WASIS.TODAY
ROOM Gallery Hall 3
08.07 - 27.08.2016
Orchestrated Freedom (Installation views).
Photos courtesy of wasis.today & Andrew Wessels
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Eternal Entertainment
2016
Digital Print
70 x 47 cm
Ed. 5 +2A.P
Exhausted Traveller
2016
Digital Print
70 x 47 cm
Ed. 5 +2A.P
Show me your Paradise
2016
Digital Print
70 x 47 cm
Ed. 5 +2A.P
Extrapolated Land
2016
Digital Print
107 x 220 cm
Ed. 5 +2A.P
Mermaid is Calling
2016
Digital Print
65 x 47 cm
Ed. 5 +2A.P
At 10 past 10
2016
Dual Channel video with sound
8’15”
Ed. 3 +2A.P
Orchestrated Freedom
2016
Single Channel video with sound
5’40’’
Ed. 3 +2A.P
Freedom vs Capitalism
2016
Single Channel video
3’00”
Ed. 3 +2A.P.
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[…]
Post-human condition of hybrid identity.
I try to draw my robot portrait, persuaded that my body cannot be experienced without images.
[…]
Run, Run, Run, (the) machines are still running, spinning, swinging.
There is always another way.
Can I, can we forget that a bullet went through paradise?
Show me infallible beauty.
Show me eternal entertainment.
Let my thoughts leave my body, let them float, lift up the ocean.
Sea, see, the mermaid is calling.
It could be you, it could be young forever.
[…]
(Extract from ‘At Ten Past Ten’, a short novel by wasis.today (2016))
Orchestrated Freedom is new cinematic installation by the collective wasis.today.
In this theatrical use of video, photography and sculptural objects, wasis.today challenges manufactured mono-aesthetics and the consent that drives and hybridizes our bodies. Labor, time and technology are choreographed to each play a role in the engineered conception of modern paradises that hang like ersatz goods for our bodies to chase.
With thanks to: Rogan Jenkin (Fabrication), Amichai Tahor (Lightfarm), Andrew Wessels (BoXcutter Studio)
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
wasis.today is a nomadic art collective, born in 2015 in the former Laurie Grove Bath in London. Comprised of Nelmarie du Preez (ZA) and Audrey Salmon (FR), they completed their MFA’s respectively at Goldsmiths College between 2012-2015.
Currently they work on affairs of home, exploring heterochronies. They observe and extract the effects that encyclopaedic globalisation has on bodies and time.
For more information on wasis.today following the link: http://wasis.today
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