Real Things About Real Things
Daniel G. Baird / Alisa Baremboym / Adam Basanta / Jordan Kasey / Sara Ludy / Paul Remund + Brian Wallace / Rachel Rossin / Jacolby Satterwhite / Chloe Seibert
December 12th, 2015 - January 24th, 2016
I am a character enmeshed within swirling vortices of space-time. I am a character aware of myself as a shadow, sensing the stranger who portrays me. I was comfortable as a shadow. I felt emboldened as my lesser dimensional self, assured in the power of my actions and secure within linear time, before knowledge of my actor. Our lovely masque is crystalized and made molten.
Opera, gesamtkunstwerk or “total art,” is the integration of all modes of human creativity—an experience that engages all of our senses and replaces one’s own narrative with one carefully crafted. Real Things About Real Things presents a similar experience, one relevant to our present moment, which philosopher Timothy Morton refers to as the “time of Hyperobjects”, or a time when “…the more we know about the interconnection, the more it becomes impossible to posit some entity beyond or behind the interrelated beings.”
In keeping with Morton’s ideas, the works in Real Things About Real Things speak directly to a reality that exists without foreground or background—a reality where all things are deeply entangled and are constantly both acting and being acted upon. Morton writes, “We have no world because the objects that functioned as invisible scenery have dissolved.” How can one maintain a sense of agency upon recognizing that separation from our environment is an illusion? What ethical and moral dilemma do living without a world pose? Does this knowledge enable transcendence, or threaten to deliver a break from reality?
Full Press Release
Link to Sara Ludy Fire Pond, 2015 - HD Video)
Daniel G. Baird / Alisa Baremboym / Adam Basanta / Jordan Kasey / Sara Ludy / Paul Remund + Brian Wallace / Rachel Rossin / Jacolby Satterwhite / Chloe Seibert
December 12th, 2015 - January 24th, 2016
I am a character enmeshed within swirling vortices of space-time. I am a character aware of myself as a shadow, sensing the stranger who portrays me. I was comfortable as a shadow. I felt emboldened as my lesser dimensional self, assured in the power of my actions and secure within linear time, before knowledge of my actor. Our lovely masque is crystalized and made molten.
Opera, gesamtkunstwerk or “total art,” is the integration of all modes of human creativity—an experience that engages all of our senses and replaces one’s own narrative with one carefully crafted. Real Things About Real Things presents a similar experience, one relevant to our present moment, which philosopher Timothy Morton refers to as the “time of Hyperobjects”, or a time when “…the more we know about the interconnection, the more it becomes impossible to posit some entity beyond or behind the interrelated beings.”
In keeping with Morton’s ideas, the works in Real Things About Real Things speak directly to a reality that exists without foreground or background—a reality where all things are deeply entangled and are constantly both acting and being acted upon. Morton writes, “We have no world because the objects that functioned as invisible scenery have dissolved.” How can one maintain a sense of agency upon recognizing that separation from our environment is an illusion? What ethical and moral dilemma do living without a world pose? Does this knowledge enable transcendence, or threaten to deliver a break from reality?
Full Press Release
Link to Sara Ludy Fire Pond, 2015 - HD Video)
Paul Remund + Brian Wallace
The World Is Yours
The World Is Yours
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Daniel G. Baird
Vestige (5), Vestige (4), Vestige (6), 2014 Marble dust, polyurethane, linen, aluminum, acrylic, tamper-proof hardware 80 x 24 x 5 inches |
Rachel Rossin
2nd Home, 2015
Oil on canvas
30 x 28 inches
2nd Home, 2015
Oil on canvas
30 x 28 inches
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Jordan Kasey
Portrait at Night with Clouds, 2014 Oil on canvas 96 x 72 inches |
Jacolby Satterwhite
Reifying Desire 4, 2014 (video still, screen 1)
HD Video
Reifying Desire 4, 2014 (video still, screen 1)
HD Video
Alisa Baremboym
Contricity Systems, 2015
Mangled steel, ceramic, tubular webbing, travel pouch, bungee cable, tubing, vinyl, hardware
26 x 55 x 46 inches
Contricity Systems, 2015
Mangled steel, ceramic, tubular webbing, travel pouch, bungee cable, tubing, vinyl, hardware
26 x 55 x 46 inches
Daniel G. Baird
Strata, 2014
Marble dust, polyurethane, linen, aluminum, acrylic, tamper-proof hardware
18 x 25 x 9 inches
Strata, 2014
Marble dust, polyurethane, linen, aluminum, acrylic, tamper-proof hardware
18 x 25 x 9 inches
Chloe Seibert
Untitled, 2015
Plaster and rubber
36 x 45 inches
Untitled, 2015
Plaster and rubber
36 x 45 inches
Adam Bassanta
A Line Listening to Itself, 2015
Reclaimed speakers, custom software, microphone
Dimensions variable
A Line Listening to Itself, 2015
Reclaimed speakers, custom software, microphone
Dimensions variable
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Rachel Rossin
Cherry Blossom Shadow, 2015 Oil on canvas 44 x 36 inches |
Chloe Seibert
Untitled, 2015
Plaster and rubber
24 x 30 inches
Untitled, 2015
Plaster and rubber
24 x 30 inches
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Adam Basanta wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its financial support of A Line Listening to Itself. |