by Anthony Huberman ; texts by Franco Berardi, Benjamin H. Bratton, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Keller Easterling, Vilém Flusser ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Franco Berardi, Benjamin H. Bratton, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Keller Easterling, Vilém Flusser, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Anthony Huberman
- Publication, year
- Vienna : Secession, 2018
- Scope
- 144 Pages, illustrated, 21.5 cm.
- Carrier
- exhibition catalogue
- ISBN
- 9783957634139
Publication accompanying the similar named exhibtion at the Secession Vienna (June 29-Sep. 2 2018). 'Other Mechanisms' points to a present moment when machines don't look much like machines. Many are not even called machines. Heavy and greasy machinery is absent from the smooth surfaces of digital interfaces and the weightlessness of cloud computing. Machines are part of the air we breathe, overseeing our lives and our bodies, from the way we communicate and consume to the way we trade and travel. Some are objects or devices, but others are systems and infrastructures a machine can be a thing as well as a method for organizing things. 'Other mechanisms' add detours or dead ends to circulation routes, or insert delinquent trajectories that create distortions over time. They reinsert the awkwardness of the human body, with all of its irregularities and inefficiencies. Art can't stop the machine, nothing can. The question is not whether or not to embrace the machine - it’s too late for that - but how to complicate it by testing existing systems with impossible tools and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs from their inputs.
- Person as subject
- Zarouhie Abdalian, Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, Eva Barto, Patricia L. Boyd, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Howard Fried, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Frederick Kiesler, Pope.L, Louise Lawler, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, Danh Vo
- Keywords
- installation , sculpture , machines
- Location
- Cabinet 9 - 5: Kunst stromingen en thema's
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