Showing posts with label emma haugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emma haugh. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Monday, 19 December 2011
Interesting exhibition text
The Power of Doubt at Guangdong Times Museum
The Power of DoubtCurator: Hou Hanru
Participating Artists: Hamra Abbas, Adel Abdessemed, Du Zhenjun, Thierry Fontaine, Shaun Gladwell, Jiang Zhi, Dinh Q Lê, Wangechi Mutu, Pak Sheung Chuen, Dan Perjovschi, Shahzia Sikander, Dimitar Solakov, Nedko Solakov, Sun Xun, Tsang Kin-Wah, Wong Hoy Cheong
18 December 2011–6 February 2012
Our era is the one dominated, shaped and determined by digital technologies. Our existences and identities are continuously transformed and redefined by interfaces in the form of flux of digitalised images and texts. These interfaces are oscillating between facts and fictions. They construct the contemporary substance of reality and truth.
Art and artists today, like the world itself, are largely “globalised.” Digital media—from still and moving images to the internet—are both the resources and materials for artistic production. Artists continue to confront, embrace and inquire the nature of reality, truth and dreams. But the processes are unprecedentedly fluid, uncertain and precarious while the outcomes are generating more suspense, doubt and critique than conclusion and resolution.
This is a seemingly open and liberated globalised world that, in turn, violently imposes fictions of happiness and peace through flattening the reality into an interface that compress every human activity into act of communication of a single truth. Behind the “freedom” of expression and communication provided by Google, Facebook, Youtube and iPhone, etc., in the field of economy, we can only accept to survive in a neo-liberalism system while politically we are encouraged to embrace the hegemony of a kind of “democracy” dictated by the logic of global imperialism. This is particularly articulated in locations that are experiencing social transformations.
The Power of Doubt superposes site-specific installations and existing works—in various new and old media but relating to photography as a model of perception—that embody the necessity of doubting the “mainstream” way of seeing, recording and communicating the real world, which, once again, oscillating between spectacular “truths” and dramatic fictions. Most of the artists are from countries such as China, Eastern Europe, that experience drastic changes from communism to capitalism and South East Asia, Africa, who are constantly negotiating between post-colonial memory and geopolitical conflicts, searching solution to deconstruct the double-bind status quo blocked into post-colonial and neo-liberal systems. They are also highly individualised and singular voices that cry out the collective doubts and desires of their societies while expressing highly different and diversified interests in artistic and intellectual pursuits.
It’s the hybridity and multiplicity produced by the encounter, dialogue and debates within this multitude—which represent most intensely the formation of a new global multitude of people who refuse to trust the imposed truth of the dominant system and struggle to achieve an emancipated truth—that will form a fantastic space of meeting with the public and extend invitations to their participation in the process of struggle. Here, we’ll all share the very power of doubt!
For further information, please refer to www.timesmuseum.org
//emma
Art and artists today, like the world itself, are largely “globalised.” Digital media—from still and moving images to the internet—are both the resources and materials for artistic production. Artists continue to confront, embrace and inquire the nature of reality, truth and dreams. But the processes are unprecedentedly fluid, uncertain and precarious while the outcomes are generating more suspense, doubt and critique than conclusion and resolution.
This is a seemingly open and liberated globalised world that, in turn, violently imposes fictions of happiness and peace through flattening the reality into an interface that compress every human activity into act of communication of a single truth. Behind the “freedom” of expression and communication provided by Google, Facebook, Youtube and iPhone, etc., in the field of economy, we can only accept to survive in a neo-liberalism system while politically we are encouraged to embrace the hegemony of a kind of “democracy” dictated by the logic of global imperialism. This is particularly articulated in locations that are experiencing social transformations.
The Power of Doubt superposes site-specific installations and existing works—in various new and old media but relating to photography as a model of perception—that embody the necessity of doubting the “mainstream” way of seeing, recording and communicating the real world, which, once again, oscillating between spectacular “truths” and dramatic fictions. Most of the artists are from countries such as China, Eastern Europe, that experience drastic changes from communism to capitalism and South East Asia, Africa, who are constantly negotiating between post-colonial memory and geopolitical conflicts, searching solution to deconstruct the double-bind status quo blocked into post-colonial and neo-liberal systems. They are also highly individualised and singular voices that cry out the collective doubts and desires of their societies while expressing highly different and diversified interests in artistic and intellectual pursuits.
It’s the hybridity and multiplicity produced by the encounter, dialogue and debates within this multitude—which represent most intensely the formation of a new global multitude of people who refuse to trust the imposed truth of the dominant system and struggle to achieve an emancipated truth—that will form a fantastic space of meeting with the public and extend invitations to their participation in the process of struggle. Here, we’ll all share the very power of doubt!
For further information, please refer to www.timesmuseum.org
//emma
Friday, 16 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Emma Haugh - Artist Bio
Emma Haugh
Current ideas will find their way to Finland in summer 2012 when Emma will take up residence with Platform art collective in Vaasa for two months to make and present new work.Emma graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a first class Honours BA in photography in 2010.
She has had two solo exhibitions (Without A Trace destroying the archive-The Joinery Gallery Dublin and BERGHAIN-Commonplace projects Dublin) and has shown work in-group exhibitions and screenings in Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Gallery of Photography and the Darklight film festival. Emma has been awarded two studio-based residencies and has taken part in several experimental residential projects organized by The Good Hatchery (Co. Offaly, Ireland).
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Alex Mirutziu
Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist who makes work that's pretty queer, he has an interesting website which can be found HERE the navigation of the site is a little unusual but it's worth the effort, I came across him in an issue of DIK Fagazine which is a queer art zine produced in Poland, their recent issue focuses on Romania.
//emma
Monday, 5 December 2011
More Roni Horn
I've always loved the simplicity of Roni Horns work...I kind of envy it actually. I like the consideration of water because I live on an Island and am constantly reminded of the sea...most cities are built beside water sources, Bucharest is situated on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, which flows into the ArgeșRiver, a tributary of the Danube...this is where we travel to.
//emma
Common Love: Rona Yefman
//emma
Interesting to me in terms of collaborative portraiture, alter ego's and queer images. I would like to develop an alter ego.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Intelligent Bodies
Intelligent Bodies and Ecological Subjectivities:
Merleau-Ponty’s Corrective to Postmodernism’s
“Subjects” of Education
This is a text my Mum forwarded on to me yesterday. It's categorized under philosophy of education but I found it relevant to multiple concerns. I really like that these ideas re-unite all aspects of lived experience and don't atomize the complexity of how we physically experience and navigate the world. the ideas in relation to location are particularly relevant to engage2012 as-well as ideas about 'encountering' the world rather than 'perceiving' it.
READ THE FULL TEXT HERE
//emma
Merleau-Ponty’s Corrective to Postmodernism’s
“Subjects” of Education
This is a text my Mum forwarded on to me yesterday. It's categorized under philosophy of education but I found it relevant to multiple concerns. I really like that these ideas re-unite all aspects of lived experience and don't atomize the complexity of how we physically experience and navigate the world. the ideas in relation to location are particularly relevant to engage2012 as-well as ideas about 'encountering' the world rather than 'perceiving' it.
READ THE FULL TEXT HERE
//emma
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Shoplifters of the World Unite - Slavoj Žižek on the meaning of the riots
"Alain Badiou has argued that we live in a social space which is increasingly experienced as ‘worldless’: in such a space, the only form protest can take is meaningless violence. Perhaps this is one of the main dangers of capitalism: although by virtue of being global it encompasses the whole world, it sustains a ‘worldless’ ideological constellation in which people are deprived of their ways of locating meaning. The fundamental lesson of globalisation is that capitalism can accommodate itself to all civilisations, from Christian to Hindu or Buddhist, from West to East: there is no global ‘capitalist worldview’, no ‘capitalist civilisation’ proper. The global dimension of capitalism represents truth without meaning."
Real the full article HERE
Emma
Monday, 21 November 2011
Julia Kristeva - Strangers to Ourselves
This text by Julia Kristeva is very well attuned to our project. I have posted some extracts below, most of the text can be read online HERE. I particularly like how she suggests that we not attempt to solidify 'otherness' but 'merely touch it...without giving it a permanent structure'.
Emma
Thursday, 3 November 2011
JUDITH BUTLER QUOTEs-emma's notebook
Judith Butler from 'Undoing Gender'
Good to consider when thinking about the 'other'
I come back to this a lot
Thursday, 27 October 2011
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