Podium

Tipping Points @ Podium, Apr 22 – May 8

22 April 2016

The Tipping Points — Flourish and Collapse in the Circularity of the Geostory group exhibition is on at Oslo’s Podium, opening April 22 and running to May 8.

Curated by Angela Chan and including artists Joey Holder and Jakob Kudsk Steensen among others, the show contemplates the so-called ‘tipping point’ of climate change and man-made mass species extinction.

The event opens on this year’s Earth Day with performances by Andreas Ervik, and Rachel Pimm with Lori E. Allen, amid calls for “an activation of symbiosis between Earthlings of all species, to end the hyper-branded avant-luxury environment of the Capitalocene and to eradicate all traces of the combusted Anthropocene.”

The press release takes a quote from author of the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ Donna Harraway as a starting point, “I am a compost-ist, not a posthuman-ist: we are all compost, not posthuman” and ends on a projected “Chthulucene re-worlding for a multispecies ecojustice.”

See the WORM website for details.**

Joey Holder, Nematode (2015) @ Wysing Arts Centre. Installation view. Courtesy the artist.
Joey Holder, Nematode (2015) @ Wysing Arts Centre. Installation view. Courtesy the artist.
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Pakui Hardware @ Podium, Feb 12 – 21

11 February 2016

Lithuanian art duo Pakui Hardware is presenting their Transactions exhibition at Oslo’s Podium, opening February 12 and running to February 21.

As part of the Norwegian space’s Oslo is Burning series, the event is introduced with the image of a petri dish as the website announcement background and opens with a text speculating on the effects of networked connectivity on the underwater species being disrupted by transatlantic communication cables: “the one[s] connecting the North Americans and Europeans attached to their shiny screens via the so called Internet.”

It links the flows of information running through these cables and the “extremophiles” they draw together with the unseen disruption caused to the “intraterrestrials” that already exist in these underwater ecologies: “Notions of life, and space, and survival redefined. Again.”

Recent exhibitions Pakui Hardware (aka Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda) have been a part of include Dawning with Fenêtre Project, the Grégoire Blunt and Emmy Skensved-organised Deep Skin group exhibition and their Lost Heritage solo show at kim? early last year.

See the Podium website for details. **

Pakui Hardware, Lost Heritage (2015) @ kim?. Exhibition view. Courtesy the gallery and the artists.
Pakui Hardware, Lost Heritage (2015) @ kim?. Exhibition view. Courtesy the gallery and the artists.
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