Children of Prometheus
NeMe and curator Marc Garrett, cofounder and co-Director of: Furtherfield
have the pleasure to invite you to Children of Prometheus. The exhibition,
opening on Friday, 11 October at 7:30pm at the NeMe Arts Centre
investigates the landscape of a rapidly transforming world and how some of
these shifts inform and affect our immediate environment.
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Children of Prometheus
The complex nature of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus has inspired
philosophers, authors and artists throughout many centuries and will
continue to do so because of the powerful contradictions which it embodies
which reflects the ongoing dualities present in both the human mind and
physical existence. Acknowledging that the Promethean spirit lives on in
the ambitions of science and technology, which in many cases defies the
limits imposed upon humanity by nature, the post-modern Prometheus belongs
to an organised world focused on the technology of the internet. This
rapidly expanding domain, with its presumed ethos of democracy belies the
technologies of data mining, fake data, targeted personalised advertising,
etc used by global conglomerates to engineer/manipulate peoples perception
via media into a state of hyper-real urgency by dislocating the individual
from physical realities.
Yet despite the plethora of work in the field, there has not been any
sustained attempt to think through the larger philosophical, sociological,
economical, political and cultural implications of new technologies. A
crucial methodology for this exhibition is to view these themes through
the eyes of the artists. Children of Prometheus generates a visual
discussion around this persistent narrative that is still very enmeshed
into our contemporary context.
Participating artists
Lynn Hershman Leeson US, Anna Dumitriu UK, Carla Gannis US, Alan Sondheim
US, Gretta Louw AU/DE, Joana Moll ES, Kypros Kyprianou UK/CY, AOS
(Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico) IT, Mary Flanagan US, Alexia
Achilleos CY with Egor Chemokhonenko (RU/CY), Guido Segni IT, Marinos
Koutsomichalis GR/CY
Programme
Opening: Friday, 11 October 2019, 7:30pm
Performance by Alan Sondheim and Azure Carter: Friday, 11 October 2019,
7:30pm
Presentations and discussion by Marc Garrett, Mary Flanagan, Alan
Sondheim, Carla Gannis: Saturday, 12 October 2019, 7:30pm
Exhibition duration: 11 October 20 December 2019
Opening Days/Times: Tuesday-Friday: 17:30-20:30; Saturday: 10:00- 13:00
Venue: NeMe Arts Centre (corner of Ellados and Enoseos sts. Limassol)
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Image credit: Carla Gannis, The Garden of Emoji Delights Triptych (detail)
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