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Radiance VR and peer to space co-present the VR installation “Artificial Tears” by Evelyn Bencicova and Joris Demnard (Ikonospace) at Düsseldorf Photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media.
Opening from 7 pm
Curator’s & Artist Talk at 8 pm
Sat, June 15th
photo+ lab - LRRH
Kapuzinergasse 24
40213 Düsseldorf
Initiated by STYLY
Curated by Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)
Artists: Alison Bennett (AUS) | Nicholas Delap (UK) | Matthew D. Gantt (US) | Mohsen Hazrati (IRN/DE) | Nadine Kolodziey (DE) | Lauren Moffatt (AUS/DE)
In cooperation with SOMA Berlin and Radiance
At: SOMA 300 Berlin, Eylauer Strasse 9, 10965 Berlin (DE) and online via STYLY
Duration: September 10 - 30, 2022
Opening: September 9, 2022, 6 - 10 pm
Closing event: September 30, 2022, 12-6 pm
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In the age of the extractivist Anthropocene, nature is dominated by human impact. We built capitalistic structures by extracting and selling natural resources for our own benefit. The dramatic increase in CO2 emissions since the Industrial Revolution and the devastating effects of human activities on the global environment have profoundly changed the Earth system. Escalating climate disasters like wildfires, floodings or frost call for a change in overall behavior. The resulting environmental precarity underlines the need for new, innovative visions for the future.
Following the idea of neo-ecologies, virtual technologies provoke new states of being, illustrating concepts for our future. Reformulating approaches to environmental questions, interactive Expanded Realities (XR) immerse us into speculative ecosystems. Divergent futures emerge as a digital garden, where growth is as inevitable as decay. The tensions of human impact are deeply rooted within the exploration of possibilities. In this discourse, humans’ inevitable depletion of resources is the critical object of consideration.
Grappling with these topics, the XR art exhibition Seed Systems emerges as a collaborative cultivation emerges as. Six international artists use augmented and virtual realities to explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, forming a spatial and sonic occurrence of growth and foliage. They unite their expertise in virtual world-building and plant knowledge, shaping alternative ecologies and biologies. The artworks create networks and systems of seeds as future concepts for environments. Activated in XR through computer-generated images (CGI), animation, point clouds and interactions, the digital biosphere – nourished by visions – grows as a space for meeting and reflection. In this speculative approach, new possibilities for action, care-taking, and reciprocity flourish, visualizing a necessary change in perspective.
Alison Bennett considers Australian native flowers as celestial encounters by exploring vegetal thinking, digital gardening and post-human neuroqueer phenomenology through today’s possibilities of expanded photography. Nicholas Delap examines histories of folklore and the nettle plant – a mysterious and overlooked plant whose medicinal qualities make it one of the most potent and widely available healing tools. Matthew D. Gantt interconnects responsive sound elements with the visual, engaging with Brian Eno’s notion of generative electronic music as bottom-up gardening – emergent structures flourish with no predicated finale. Mohsen Hazrati creates a virtual bioluminescence with a metaphorical approach to understanding wine as an alternative source of energy, which he considers in the context of Irianian culture. Nadine Kolodziey explores how to plant something digital and intangible in a physical space, while playfully questioning future interactions within our technologized environment. Lauren Moffatt establishes cycles of flourishing and decay in nature, examining how different virtual and physical ecosystems become linked by human movement and behavior.
Inspired by gardens that carefully construct spaces of experience and interaction, the exhibition considers how new media can be used to reimagine ecological systems and facilitate mindful, inclusive futures. Planting seeds of reflection and growth raises the question of what we can do at a small scale to initiate patterns for the greater system. Should this practice be considered rebellious, productive or promising? Can this artistic activism really contribute to a positive development of our planet’s ecology? How can the influence of humankind change for the better?
Monday, May 30, 2022, 8 pm at Favorit Bar, Munich
DEEP TALK N.1: PARCOUR – Work the Engine
Peggy Schoenegge moderates the artist talk with Barbara Herold and Kim Twiddle as part of the solo show and premier of the VR experience PARCOUR at Rosa Stern Space in Munich, running from May 25 to June 22, 2022.
In her work, Barbara Herold explores playful systems in the threshold space of the physical and the digital. In collaboration with e-composer Kim Twiddle, Barbara Herold developed the colour-form-music composer PARCOUR, a VR experiment on Neues Sehen (according to W. Benjamin). Through optical abstraction, stereoscopic overlays and interactive sound modulation, retro video game landscapes become an aesthetic sensual and new consciousness experience.
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NextReality Hamburg connects virtual and real worlds, shares knowledge about XR and meet professionals as well as enthusiasts! In November 2021 they present the very first nextReality.Conference, the XRcon.
Talk by Peggy Schoenegge: November 12, 2021, 1:45 pm CET
Experience insightful talks, key sessions and panel discussions. XRcon covers the topics of virtual and augmented reality from the academic and tech world to the business world with relevant use cases. peer to space’s senior curator and project manager Peggy Schoenegge will give a talk on virtual art exhibitions.
The XRcon will take place completely online on the platform Bizzlogic.
Curated by Sue Bachmeier and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)
Web design by Camilla Murgia
Release date: September 24, 2021, 9 am CET
With works by Matej Al-Ali & Tomáš Moravec, William Anastasi, Emmanuel van der Auwera, Benton C Bainbridge, Frank Balve, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Kelsey S Brewer, Amy Cannestra, Yvon Chabrowski, James H. Connolly, Kevin Cooley, D’arcy Darilmaz, Manja Ebert, Daniel Everett, Exonemo, Stefano Fake, Ornella Fieres, Carla Gannis, James Alec Hardy, Claudia Hart, Faith Holland, Annebarbe Kau, Philipp Madörin, Marck, Alex May, Martina Menegon, Sali Muller, Juan Obando, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Monica Panzarino, Taezoo Park, Björn Perborg, René Radomsky, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Ulrike Rosenbach, Nicolas Sassoon, Ira Schneider, Sid and Geri, Ivonne Thein, Joan Truckenbrod, Maria Vedder, Andy Vible, Wolf Vostell, Peter Welz, Xuan Ye
PARADOXICAL OBJECTS - Video Sculpture Art From 1968 To Today
Peer to space’s exhibition PARADOXICAL OBJECTS is dedicated to this special construct that combines video and sculpture, embracing the temporality and dynamic of video and the static nature of the screen. Fourty-six time-based works by international artists from 1969 to today highlights the technological development and variety of artistic uses of video sculptures over the last decades. Whether closed-circuit, single or multi-channel, screens create a physical entity to display of moving images. The exhibition’s artists explore the possibilities and conditions of this disparate unity.
Full exhibition text and exhibition at: paradoxical-objects.net
Borghildur Indrida, SPACELAB - Into the Unknown, 2021
Artist: Borghildur Indrida
Curators: Gloria Aino Grzywatz and Peggy Schoenegge
Opening: June 4, 2021, 7-10 pm CEST
Artist Talk (InstaLive): June 10, 2021, 7 pm
Finissage: June 12, 2021, 7 pm
June 4 – 12, 2021 at Hošek Contemporary
The exhibition SPACELAB – Into the Unknown represents the starting point of the artistic project Artist on the Moon. Reflecting our role as humans within the solar system, Borghildur Indrida plans to be the first artist to fly to the moon, realizing an artistic performance in space.
The moon has always been an object of international interest. Since the 1950s, various countries have raced to land missiles and crews in order to be the first to gather information about the distant luminary. Major nations such as the United States, the former Soviet Union or China succeeded and explored small areas of the moon. As a symbol of conquest, they raised flags and removed moon rocks, asserting territorial claims.
These claims of power illustrate imperialist structures, which Borghildur Indrida explores and questions. Flying to the moon herself, the artist rejects nationalized interplanetary relations reminiscent of a colonial past. As an act of national disempowerment, she looks for a way of restitution by bringing back the moon stones to where they belong. In this process, patriarchal patterns within space exploration also become visible, which she deconstructs in equal measure. Borghildur Indrida occupies the supposedly male domain as a female artist and reinterprets it as an artistic space, breaking up structures of power.
SPACELAB - Into the Unknown creates a laboratory situation, which allows a comprehensive scientific consideration of Borghildur Indrida’s project. In a site-specific installation at the ship hold of Hošek Contemporary, visitors are immersed into the artistic discourse. The artist confronts us with fundamental questions of systems of power and ownership interests. What claims are being made in relation to unmanned territories? What hierarchies and systems emerge? How can women assert themselves within patriarchal structures? In the artist's peaceful gesture of restitution, the complexity and insanity of nationalized power relations clarify and remind us of our position in the solar system. With the gaze toward and the journey to the moon, the focus of our being is directed to the essential – an equalized, respectful and participatory society without exploitation.
