'Telepathic Environment' (solo show) and 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' (curated show) at WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos. Exhibition ends soon - May 1, 2022.
My solo exhibition 'Telepathic Environment' is an art practice response made largely in late 2020 and early 2021 to my exploration of telepathy, new forms of labour and my participation in Activist Neuroaesthetics Festival in Berlin in mid 2020. Three large paintings explore the cybernetic algorithms and information processing blurs of global media enmeshed with branching lines of brain synapses or a diagram of Synchron's Brain Computer Interface patent. Painted lines of light, spheres of data and technologically enmeshed subtle bodies are combined with images from deep tech and big tech as well as telepathic processes of the natural and/or organic environment. Looking through the spy-hole bubbles you can see the entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bryan Johnson yoga posing half naked in his new telepathic brain-reading Kernel helmet; a cross-section of Ayahuasca vine; part of an australian lyrebird; and the group tunnel-formation yoga of anarchist militants. Cartoon speech-bubble text quotes from the many global media headlines on Facebook's past, current and future Meta work with telepathy. I also show new work exploring the environmental proliferation of telepathic devices and phenomena in sculptural objects, installation, performance and video.
I originally curated the group show 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' at Babylon Theatre and Kunstverein Rosa Luxembourg as an Activist Neuroaesthetics film screening event last year - it is premiering in Australia at WAYOUT Artspace. It includes videos by australian and international artists: The Telepathy Project (Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples), Benjamin Denham, Shoufay Derz, Tabita Rezaire, Gabriele Stellbaum, Lorenzo Sandoval, Sarah Breen Lovett, Jacquelene Drinkall, Linda Dement and Nancy Mauro-Flude, Michele Barker and Anna Munster, and Haines and Hinterding. Warren Neidich also contributes a newly augmented video originally shown in the first of the three Activist Neuroasethetics exhibitions. Warren is the director of Activist Neuroaesthetics Festival, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, and Artbrain.org, and also included are his Activist Neuroaesthetics Manifesto and newly revised image and text atlas that accompanied the Activist Neuroaesthetics exhibitions. I also co-curated the third Activist Neuroaesthetics exhibition 'Telepathy and New Labor' with Warren Neidich and Susanne Prinz at the Kunstverein which is documented in the 'Telepathy and New Labor' section of the Activist Neuroaesthetics newspaper and online: https://activistneuroaesthetics.art/.../telepathy-and.../. The 'Telepathy and New Labor' newspaper is also included in the WAYOUT exhibition as larger format posters and includes texts by Charles Green, Lisa Blackman, David Porush, Warren Neidich, The Royal Society, Julieta Gonzalez and Franco 'Bifo' Berardi with images of artwork by Suzanne Treister, Suzanne Dikker and Marina Abramovic, unknown ancient cave artist/s at Leang Bulu Sipong (Sulawesi), Warren Neidich, Kathryn Andrews, David Horvitz, Agnieszka Kurant, Jonathon Monk (with Robert Barry and others), Gianni Motti, Simon Denny and Lorenzo Sandoval. This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. WAYOUT is supported by the Australia Council since this year.
The first gallery (below) with the funding logos documents the 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' group show exhibition. Grateful acknowledgements for Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art: This project has been made possible with support from Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Germany) and New South Wales Government through Create NSW (Australia).
The second gallery (further below) documents my solo show 'Telepathic Environment' made in response to working with artbrain.org and Activist Neuroaesthetics Festival in 2021.
Photography in both galleries below by Alex Wisser.
