ATTEMPTS AT AUTONOMY
Mattia Casalegno, Ron Erlih, Noelle Fitzsimmons, Katerina Friderici, Jessie Laino, Michael Powell, Laurencia Strauss, Joe Winograd
Jan 30 - Feb 27, 2016 | FAT Village Projects
Attempts at Autonomy, is a group exhibition curated by Jesse Firestone and Zack Spechler, in collaboration with Bedlam Lorenz Assembly, in reaction to internationally acclaimed artist Mattia Casalegno’s site specific installation, What it Takes to be a Body. Prompted by the French philosopher Michel Serres’ book Variations on the Body, Casalegno’s large scale installation reflects on the idea of beauty and the fallacy of the presumed superiority of man and its machines over nature. In reaction to the installation are several smaller satellite works, which are inspired by biological processes and the efforts to recreate those processes through mechanical reproduction. The results are innovative hybrid artworks that straddle the line between machine and organism. The exhibition features sculptural interventions, large scale installations, video projections, and augmented realities. Attempts at Autonomy begins to deconstruct what it means to be a bio-organism, and demonstrates ways in which artists have created bio-tech hybrid systems that are neither machine nor organism.
Mattia Casalegno, Ron Erlih, Noelle Fitzsimmons, Katerina Friderici, Jessie Laino, Michael Powell, Laurencia Strauss, Joe Winograd
Jan 30 - Feb 27, 2016 | FAT Village Projects
Attempts at Autonomy, is a group exhibition curated by Jesse Firestone and Zack Spechler, in collaboration with Bedlam Lorenz Assembly, in reaction to internationally acclaimed artist Mattia Casalegno’s site specific installation, What it Takes to be a Body. Prompted by the French philosopher Michel Serres’ book Variations on the Body, Casalegno’s large scale installation reflects on the idea of beauty and the fallacy of the presumed superiority of man and its machines over nature. In reaction to the installation are several smaller satellite works, which are inspired by biological processes and the efforts to recreate those processes through mechanical reproduction. The results are innovative hybrid artworks that straddle the line between machine and organism. The exhibition features sculptural interventions, large scale installations, video projections, and augmented realities. Attempts at Autonomy begins to deconstruct what it means to be a bio-organism, and demonstrates ways in which artists have created bio-tech hybrid systems that are neither machine nor organism.