Exhibition Opening
Decolonized Skies
organized by: High&Low Bureau
(Yael Messer and Gilad Reich)
Opening reception: September 10: 6-8 pm
On view: September 11 -- October 25, 2014
Tue, Sep 16: 7 pm - Curator Talk: Rethinking the View from Above
Thu, Sep 18: 7 pm - Panel Discussion: The New Cartography Featuring
work by:
Bik Van der Pol
Effi & Amir
Peter Fend
George R. Lawrence
Ruben Pater
Forensic Architecture
George R. Lawrence, San Francisco earthquake ruins, 1906
Since the invention of aerial photography during the last decades of
the 19th century, the sky above our heads has become a territory
subjected to militarized conflicts over mastery and command. Following
this evolution, the view from above has become associated with state
control and corporate power. This reality is even more apparent in
recent years with the excessive worldwide use of drones and other
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for purposes of surveillance and
destruction. Parallel to this disturbing rising trend, and in many
respects as a response to it, an increasing number of artists,
activists, scientists, and designers from different regions seek ways
to use today's technology to re-appropriate the sky and reclaim the
view from above.
These efforts and experiments stand at the center of Decolonized
Skies, an exhibition that brings together artists and groups of
practitioners from a variety of disciplines. They attempt to
decolonize the aerial point of view and the visuality it produces by
manipulating satellite images, operating hand-made UAVs, and creating
new mapping systems in a search for civilian-oriented visual and
political imagery. The exhibition explores the new visual strategies
generated by the democratization of the view from above for the
production and distribution of civilian knowledge. It underscores the
empowering potential of civilian action while questioning the very
notion of "democratization." The assemblage of videos, maps, computer
programs, sound bites, and images offers alternative strategies for
engaging with and obtaining information about local socio-political
hotspots.
A winner of the 2014-15 Unsolicited Proposal Program, along with Foot
Notes: On the Sensations of Tone and Profiled: Surveillance of a
Sharing Society.
apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the
Affirmation Arts Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The
Greenwich Collection Ltd., Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides
Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and with public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York
State Council on the Arts.
Image courtesy of Chicago History Museum.
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