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The Living Art Museum Reykjavík

26.01—05.03.2023

Exhibitions

Fragments of Other Knowledge

Julie Béna, Guðrún Bergsdóttir, David Escalona, Rósa Gísladóttir, Juliana Höschlová, Tomáš Javůrek & Screen Saver Gallery, Eva Koťátková, Guðjón Gísli Kristinsson, Marie Lukáčová, Michael Nosek, Claire Paugam, Sindri Ploder, Adéla Součková, Vladimír Turner, Aleksandra Vajd & Anetta Mona ChiṣaFragments of Other Knowledge

Specific themes addressed in the exhibitions include spirituality; altered states of consciousness and drugs; wisdom associated with nature and traditional communities; "normality" and institutionalization; cognition and experience mediated by the body; hand craft and slow lifestyle connected with it; the worldview of people with sensory or physical disabilities; discovery and adventure; artificial intelligence; and last but not least, artistic research itself as a unique form of knowledge.

​​The exhibition Fragments of Other Knowledge summarizes a three-year research and exhibition project called Other Knowledge realized at the MeetFactory Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. It presents a curatorial selection by Tereza Jindrová and Eva B. Riebová and focuses on distinctive works that were part of one of the ten exhibitions from the series Other Knowledge.

The intention of this project was to look for alternatives to the rationalist model of knowledge that prevails in our modern European culture. The point is not to disqualify reason and science, but rather to point out the broader framework of our existence in the world. The tradition of Western thought is associated, among other things, with power structures based on oppression (colonialism, patriarchy) or extractivism, which contributes to the social, economic and environmental problems of today. We consider dealing with alternatives to these systems to be one of the responsibilities of art and culture, which should stimulate and co-create (self) consciousness in society.

Specific themes addressed in the exhibitions include spirituality; altered states of consciousness and drugs; wisdom associated with nature and traditional communities; "normality" and institutionalization; cognition and experience mediated by the body; hand craft and slow lifestyle connected with it; the worldview of people with sensory or physical disabilities; discovery and adventure; artificial intelligence; and last but not least, artistic research itself as a unique form of knowledge.

The exhibition at the Living Art Museum, realized with the support of our long-term partner Art Without Borders, brings together all these different themes in one place. It presents the works of mainly Czech artists, many of whom were commissioned directly by MeetFactory Gallery, and this selection is supplemented by several works of Icelandic artists who have not been part of the exhibitions held so far, but resonate very well with the themes raised and add new layers of meaning.

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Narrated Botany

Field reading: Lady's slippers1 couch2 ranty-tanty3 passions4, fox’s foot6 and floating foxtail7.  

2017

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Anetta Mona Chişa, Martin Piaček

Soma

human bones, silicone breast implants, gypsum with urine, gabion

2019 

Soma is made with "ex-body" materials like human bones, used breast implants, urine (in plaster). The selected individual elements are connected through the human body and at the same time they are temporal transgression (old archaeological remnants of humans, modern artificial implants, fresh urine). Here they are combined with a gabion mesh into a hybrid body. This second hand body is referring to a prosthetic body, a cyborg like E. A. Poe’s John A. B. C. Smith from “The Man That Was Used Up”. On the other hand it can be seen as a skeleton of a material avatar, the mineral matter and the metal structure of automated companions of the present or a bionic creature of the future.

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Verbing the Material: rocks with efflorescences 

(calcite, dolomite, marble, from the growing sculpture series)

2019-2020

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Verbing the Material: plaster cast with efflorescences

(from the growing sculpture series) 

re-imagining materials

2019

#plastercast #processart #vibrantmatter #neomaterialism #growingsculpture #calcium #nonhuman #collaboration #biographyofmaterials #emergence #lostdeities #transitorysculpture

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#politicsofbotanicallanguage #narratedbotany #taxonomy #botanicalnomenclature #fytopoetry #fytolanguage #vernacularplantnames #artandplants #languageandplants #fytopoems #florilegium #dialogueswiththevegetalworld #plantnarrators

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What's What, and What It Might be Reasonable to Do about What's What.

#aldous huxley

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Some people may be able to see the color "yellow–blue" in this image by letting their eyes cross so that both + symbols are on top of each other.

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Two in one From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Two in One or 2-in-1 or variant may refer to:

Two in One (film), a 2007 Russian film Marvel Two-in-One, an American comic book series Canon: Two in One, a musical term 2-in-1 tablet, a cross between a tablet computer and a laptop Multi-function printer, a 2-in-1 printer, the 2-function versions which combines a printer with some other device, typically a scanner Compilation album of thrash metal band Sodom

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NEƎИ is a frame of Mind.

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*Telic, (from the Greek τέλοϛ, meaning "end" or "goal") is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense. A verb or verb phrase with this property is said to be telic, while a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being incomplete is said to be atelic.

Telic: When technology is used for a specific purpose and not as mere reference. Using computers to achieve something, is Telic, using them just because they exist it is not.

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