#augmentedspecies
Opening: Sept. 10, 2021, 3 pm local time
MoMA Sculpture Garden, New York
Works by Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick, Carla Gannis, Joanna Hoffmann, Tamiko Thiel
Curated by Tina Sauerlaender and Ursula Ströbele
Organized and developed by MoMAR (Damjanski, David Lobser, Monique Baltzer, Vicky Leung)
AUGMENTED SPECIES
Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies
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An unauthorized international Touring Exhibition of AR sculptures in Museums and Sculptural Gardens worldwide.
The relationship between the arts and what has been called ‘nature‘ as a historic, cultural and scientific concept, has undergone some major shifts. Various theories of post-(human)nature and eco-fiction have become more and more influential during the last decades as is well-known. The term ‘nature‘ itself has been called into question. Ecological theorists, such as Timothy Morton think that we actually live in a post-natural age, proclaiming ecology without nature. Donna Haraway describes entangled multispecies histories, using the term natureculture. These theories include new ways of thinking about established hierarchies, agency and power, as well as difference and ontology. Leaving behind established dualisms, the exhibition Augmented Species. Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies aims to present four contemporary artistic positions working in the field of sculpture, cyber ecology, and eco fiction: Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick, Carla Gannis, Joanna Hoffmann, and Tamiko Thiel. They all deal with new technologies and forms of display, thus developing a site-specific sculptural aesthetics of the living, along with expanded possibilities of the sculptural in the digital age. The concept of MoMAR, an unauthorized non-profit gallery, is to democratize physical exhibition spaces, museums, and the curation of art within them. The exhibition occupies prestigious museum spaces around the world to connect the concept of eco-fictional shifts to said spaces. This process reestablishes what is called the canon of (art) history while invading physical locations with today’s technological possibilities, questioning institutions and their hierarchies, structures and programmes. Read the full text here
Openings
Further Venues
Each from 4 pm local time
September 17: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany // Kunstareal, Munich, Germany // Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
September 24: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, Hammer Museum, LA, USA // Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK // FRAC, Marseille, France
October 1: Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku (Center of Polish Sculpture), Poland // Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
October 8: Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands // Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
October 15: Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa // Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
October 22: Louisana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark // Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
October 29: Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan // National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico
November 5 to November 30: Open 24/7 globally! End of all exhibitions: November 30, 2021
More information: momar.gallery
Image credits (l to r): Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick, Tamiko Thiel, Carla Gannis, Joanna Hoffmann