Some people believe the Sun used to be yellow
Accompanying program
Some people believe the Sun used to be yellow
exhibiting artists: Julia Crabtree & William Evans, Elena Damiani, Rowena Harris, Adrien Missika, Ana Vaz
curator: Soós Borbála
When we look
at a beautiful landscape it can hurt sometimes. Maybe we are afraid that it is
the last time we are able to glance at it, trying to grasp it too hard… Or
perhaps we know that it is actually already not real.
The
exhibition transplants us into a fictional landscape. It is a strange, yet
familiar place, potentially of the future. Clearly dependent on human
interaction, it is a result of complex forces, pre-determined by hybrid
histories.
Territories
are the relationship between human cohabitation, earth systems and material
processes, unfolding in time and across space (1). In recent history the
results of large-scale exploitation linked colonialism, reterritorialisation
and restructuring made the relationship and our related histories fragmented
and hard to recuperate. These combined with the pressures of capitalism and the
needs of industrial production created a circulation of intensities that draw the
number of possible outcomes to a shrinking number. With the effects of the
ongoing climate change and a sense of a looming disaster of toxic pollution, we
have to think about our future in the view of past mistakes.
Take the
idea of the ruin, it is something that used to belong to the past, yet
increasingly it is becoming part of our future. Our epoch sets in motion
reverberations and oscillations that scatter long-established boundaries and
opens up a new set of divisions in time and space. Or as Rowena Harris put it
in the title of her recent performance lecture: how to go forward if the future
and past are not where you would normally find them?
1) John
Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency and Armin Linke. In:
Posthuman Glossary, Ed by Rosi Braidotti & Maria Hlavajova, 2018.
