Artists: Goda Palekaitė & Adrijana Gvozdenović, Rachel Pimm & Graham Cunnington, We Work in the Dark (Luiza Prado de O. Martins & Obaro Ejimiwe)
Curated by Anna Santomauro & Laura Clarke (Arts Catalyst)
Exhibition architecture: Matej Gavula
Graphic Design: Sándor Bartha
21.09. – 16.12.2022
Venue: tranzit.sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
Open: Tuesday – Friday: 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
What matters matter? How does matter circulate within, around and through bodies? What kinds of interactions, metabolisms and exchanges does matter participate in?
‘I as it, or stones that vibrate’ brings together three collaborative artist projects, each developed in dialogue with a particular landscape and the more-than-human forces that continue to bring it into being.
Currents, minerals, molecules, rhizomes are active agents, exerting forces that shape cultural forms, histories and politics — as political theorist Jane Bennett puts it in Vibrant Matter, they are “themselves powerful, material assemblages with resistant force.”
In the works presented in the show, this resistant force — the agency of matter — emerges as a political actant in different ways: through unsettling encounters with organic and inorganic matters ingrained in rocks, sounds of leaking iron particles intoxicating rivers that turn orange, and eroded pebbles on a beach revealing traces of concealed military histories.
The exhibition attempts to evoke a somatic conversation between multiple actants, including water, rocks, magnetic fields, and iron – around their own agency and the kinships, animacies and conflicts that they instigate.
Links:
web https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2022-09-21/i-as-it-or-stones-that-vibrate
pdf leaflet https://sk.tranzit.org/files/I_as_it_leaflet.pdf
fcbk photo album opening https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3195564084041692&type=3
fcbk photo album performance https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3195678234030277&type=3
Photography: Adam Šakový
