[Reader-list] FW: [oldboys] Geography and the Politics of Mobility

[Amanda McDonald Crowley]

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Geography and the Politics of Mobility
Bureau d’études | Frontera Sur RRVT | Makrolab | multiplicity | Raqs Media
Collective 
 

 January 17 trough April 27, 2003
 
  
 Generali Foundation
 Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
 1040 Vienna 
 Phone (+43 1) 504 98 80
 Fax (+43 1 ) 504 98 83
 found.office at generali.at
 http://foundation.generali.at
 
 
 Image: Bangkok Skytrain, Ursula Biemann, 2001
 
    
  Geography and the Politics of Mobility
 Bureau d’études | Frontera Sur RRVT | Makrolab | multiplicity | Raqs Media
Collective 


 The exhibition presents five collective and recently produced art projects
to examine the concept of “geography” in a way that goes beyond its
geo-scientific definition. The increasing circulation of people, goods, and
data is creating new cultural, social, and virtual landscapes that inscribe
themselves materially in the terrain. Here, geography is seen as a model of
thought for concepts of boundaries, connectivity and transgression within
society. The exhibition takes a critical look at an increasingly
consolidated Europe as well as its borders and at the same time presents
emerging formations of artistic and activist “geographies”.

 Makrolab is a temporary, autonomous art-science laboratory initiated by the
Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan. It provides changing participants with means
to listen into data from around the world under isolated conditions. So far
this nomadic research and residential unit has been stationed at Documenta X
in Kassel, in Slovenia, on Rottnest Island in Australia, and in the Scottish
highlands. 

 The project group Frontera Sur RRVT examines the Spanish-Moroccan border as
an area for mobility motivated by various causes. A complex system of forces
has emerged there that raises questions of gender, ethnic filters and
debates about migration and labor.

 The multi-video work A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location) by Raqs Media Collective from
Delhi maps the “time geography” of shifting identities in the New Economy.
It addresses the gendered conditions of the new data outsourcing agent: the
online working woman, who is the quintessential “digital proletarian” of the
21st century. 

 The artist duo Bureau d'études from Paris conceives gigantic maps that
disclose an increasingly interconnected network of data-gathering systems
involving the military, energy and biochemical sectors as well as the
entertainment, information and social surveillance systems. Their
pictographic installation World Monitoring Atlas transfers the “politics of
space” to an abstract level.

 The Milan based collective multiplicity proposes Case 01 and 02 of their
ongoing Solid Sea project on the nature of the Mediterranean and the fluxes
that cross it. While Europe reformulates its borders, multiplicity presents
the Mediterranean as a solid space that is traversed by vessels and
individuals holding different statuses.

 A publication in German and English will accompany the exhibition. It will
contain a foreword by Dieter Karner, an editorial by Sabine Breitwieser, and
texts by Ursula Biemann, Brian Holmes, Lisa Parks, Irit Rogoff, and the
artists. 

 For further information please go to:
<http://foundation.generali.at/index_e.htm>http://foundation.generali.at/ind
ex_e.htm 
 Press office: Susanne Buder (+43 1) 504 98 80 ext. 24,
found.presse at generali.at
 Artistic and Managing Director: Dr. Sabine Breitwieser

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