Photo reportage from the exhibition '1 iJ' at EKKM

September 4, 2018
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Johannes Büttner / Dominique Koch. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Johannes Büttner / Dominique Koch. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Over 38 days EKKM will transform itself into a stage for the project 1 iJ curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. While appropriating the recently successfully tested Lossless Brownian Information Engine as a structural metaphor, 1 iJ will be fleshed out through manifold authorial intentions that flirt and coalesce, interrupt and devour each other. Considering data both as fuel and product, cause and result, 1 iJ incessantly generates narratives that interlace biological and technological consciousnesses, geographical and situational presence, mythologized and bureaucratic identities.

Participating artists are: Johannes Büttner, Elisa Giardina Papa, Hannah Heilmann, Norma Jeane, Florence Jung, Helena Keskküla, Kiwa, Dominique Koch, Kaarel Kurismaa, Camille Laurelli, Psaiko, Eva Rank, Tabita Rezaire, Karl Saks, Dora Way
‘1 iJ’
EKKM
04 August 2018 — 09 September 2018

Curator: Ekaterina Shcherbakova
Graphic design: Ott Kagovere
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Danish Arts Foundation, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council.

Johannes Büttner / Dominique Koch. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Johannes Büttner / Dominique Koch. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Johannes Büttner, Paperclip Maximiser 1, 2 & 3, 2018 / you i i i i i everything else, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Johannes Büttner, Paperclip Maximiser 1, 2 & 3, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dominique Koch, Holobiont Society, 2017. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dominique Koch, Holobiont Society, 2017. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dora Way. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dora Way. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Kaarel Kurismaa, The Kinetic Touch of Strings, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Kaarel Kurismaa, The Kinetic Touch of Strings, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Camille Laurelli, I was here, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Camille Laurelli, I was here, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Norma Jeane, Blowout, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Norma Jeane, Blowout, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

KIWA, Selected works (2014-2018) by Aldar “Psaiko” Talivste, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

KIWA, Selected works (2014-2018) by Aldar “Psaiko” Talivste, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Helena Keskküla, Flower Arrangement, 2018 / Elisa Giardina Papa, Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits?, 2017-2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Helena Keskküla, Flower Arrangement, 2018 / Elisa Giardina Papa, Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits?, 2017-2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Helena Keskküla, Flower Arrangement, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Helena Keskküla, Flower Arrangement, 2018. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dora Way. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Dora Way. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Hannah Heilmann, It Wasn’t Like This, It Was Like That, 2018. Dora Way. “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.

Hannah Heilmann, It Wasn’t Like This, It Was Like That, 2018.  “1 iJ” at EKKM, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova. Exhibition view. Photo: Paul Kuimet.