Teleplasticity, Teleplasti City and Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art
Sawtooth ARI exhibition open from Friday August 5 until October 2, thursday to sunday 11am-4pm, at 58 Lindsay Street, Invermay, Launceston, TAS, 7250:
https://www.sawtoothari.com/upcoming
LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT, OPENING NIGHT ONLY 6.45pm onwards - an algorithmic digital media seance 'Awry Signals' performed by Nancy Mauro-Flude (live) and Linda Dement (remote)
This exhibition is a newly expanded Tasmanian iteration of 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art'.
'Telepasticity' is a term derived from both the psychic arts and electrical science for materialising things that are coded, imaged or imagined at a distance into a tangible and very present form. Teleplasticity is also intended to reference the fine arts and cognitive brain science use of the term 'plasticity'. The 'plastic arts’ is a term synonymous with the visual/spatial fine arts. ‘Neuroplasticity’ is the brain's ability to defy predictability and change itself through recursivity and feedback. Teleplasti City is a constantly evolving and elastic place and psychic space that exists at a distance and yet is also very present. Teleplasti City hosts a new iteration of 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' together with some new artists all ‘from’ Tasmania in some way. The result is the new yet iterative exhibition 'Teleplasticity, Teleplasti City and Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art'.
'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' was originally screened at Babylon Theatre and Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V. in Berlin. It extended the three-part Activist Neuroaesthetics exhibition ('Brain Without Organs', 'Sleep and Altered States of Consciousness,' and 'Telepathy and New Labor') that took place at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V. in 2021 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of artbrain.org. Warren Neidich is founder and director of artbrain.org and he has collaborated with artist Jacquelene Drinkall since 2013. Activist Neuroaesthetics refuses the cynicism of Big Data, neural consumerism and defence research generated technologies, and instead promotes an ethics of neural plastic emancipation and neural diversity to produce artistic facts, rather than scientific ones, that are organized into a generalized paradigm of resistance. Jacquelene was invited by Warren, Sarrita Hunn and artbrain.org to curate 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' in collaboration with Activist Neuroaesthetics festival and the Verein at Rosa-Luxemborg Platz with funding from Create NSW and Hauptstadtkulturfonds. She also co-curated and co-edited the 'Telepathy and New Labor' exhibition and newspaper publication and the earlier 'Art and Telepathy' (2016) online exhibition which was mentioned in Artforum’s review of Activist Neuroaesthetics festival.
This new 'Teleplasticity, Teleplasti City' iteration of 'Activist Neuroasethetics in Video Art' includes artists ‘from’ Tasmania: Jon Marthick’s work with alchemical therapeutics in digital-macro photographs; Tricky Walsh’s ‘Tiefenzeit’ exploration of communicative transmission in guache; Jacquelene Drinkall’s recent ‘Telepathic Environment’ object and painting work; and new photomedia work from Peter Hill’s 'Museum of Doubt’. The artists showing in video include Warren Neidich, The Telepathy Project (Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples), Benjamin Denham, Shoufay Derz, Tabita Rezaire, Gabriele Stellbaum, Lorenzo Sandoval, Sarah Breen Lovett, Linda Dement and Nancy Mauro-Flude, Michele Barker and Anna Munster, Haines & Hinterding, and Jacquelene Drinkall. The exhibition will further contextualise the film/video artworks with other artworks made in other teleplastic mediums.
Extensive exhibition room notes will necessarily be very booky, and will include a printed copy of Warren Neidich's An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader (2022) (attached), 'The Manifesto of Activist Neuroaesthetics' (2021-22), and Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part 3 (2017). Jacquelene Drinkall's book chapter 'Neuromodulations of Extro-Scientific Telepathy' is included in Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part 3 and she will also include her new long articles, and the 'Telepathy and New Labor' (2021) (attached) section from Activist Neuroaesthetics newspaper that she edited in collaboration with artbrain.org and the Verein (with texts by Charles Green, Lisa Blackman, David Porush, Warren Neidich, The Royal Society, Julieta Gonzalez, Jacquelene Drinkall and Franco 'Bifo' Berardi and with images of artwork by Suzanne Treister, Suzanne Dikker and Marina Abramovic, unknown ancient cave artist/s at Leang Bulu Sipong in Sulawesi, Warren Neidich, Kathryn Andrews, David Horvitz, Agnieszka Kurant, Jonathon Monk, Gianni Motti, Simon Denny, Lorenzo Sandoval and Jacquelene Drinkall); plus bios/statements for each exhibiting artist.
'Teleplasticity, Teleplasti City and Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art' is curated by Jacquelene Drinkall.
