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'Protocols of Uncertainty', a Group Show Curated by Felice Moramarco at Gossamer Fog, London

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Natália Trejbalová, The Unusual Adventure of Riding in Silence, 2018 / Yen Chun Lin, Reversible Decay, 2018 / Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018 / Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018 / Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, “Initially, the terrain has no grass or details available but if you click the Edit Details button in the inspector, you will see the Add Grass Texture and Add Details Mesh options on the menu that appears, 2018 / Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018 / Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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you will see the Add Grass Texture and Add Details Mesh options on the menu that appears, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, “Initially, the terrain has no grass or details available but if you click the Edit Details button in the inspector, you will see the Add Grass Texture and Add Details Mesh options on the menu that appears, 2018 / Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Object Temporarily Removed for Conservation, 2018 / Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Reversible Decay, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Reversible Decay, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Reversible Decay, 2018
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Yen Chun Lin, Reversible Decay, 2018
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Natália Trejbalová, The Unusual Adventure of Riding in Silence, 2018
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Natália Trejbalová, The Unusual Adventure of Riding in Silence, 2018
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Lucia Sgrafetto, Mole Count, 2018
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Milan Mazúr, Ócuka, 2018
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Milan Mazúr. Ócuka, 2018
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Milan Mazúr. Ócuka, 2018

The promethean attempt to control and rationalise every aspect of the real has eventually brought about the opposite result: uncertainty, indeterminacy, and randomness massively entering the system, exposing its unresolvable inconsistencies. Instead of containing complexity, techniques of mediation have enhanced it, by triggering irreversible processes of increasing entropy within the system. In the totally technologically mediated environment, the exponential multiplication of level of abstraction, the widespread adoption of automation, and the consequent oversaturation of the infosphere has brought the metaphysical and epistemological structures of modernity on the verge of collapse; the traditional ordering principles of the real – space, time, and causality – have jammed; the distinction natural/artificial, human/machine, science/aesthetics have fallen apart – if they ever existed at all. 

This process has increasingly drawn attention on the point of indistinction between living and non-living, which is prior to their separation. This is what the theorists of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) call the “unlife”: a field of potentialities and virtual entities, where all the elements of nature coexist, and life is yet to emerge. The difference between living and non-living beings is indeed clear to everyone. However, how this distinction between organic and inorganic occurs is still a mystery. “All life forms are composed of molecules that are not themselves alive”, writes the physicist Steen Rasmussen in an article on Science. This statement is as obvious as difficult to acknowledge. That life emerges from non-living matter and is simply the result of a specific disposition of non-living molecules is still both psychologically and culturally hard to accept. 

The fact that there is no ontological difference between us, living beings, and the rest of the matter that constitutes the universe undermines in fact all our pretensions to occupy a privileged position in the cosmos. To investigate this point of indistinction is necessary in order to comprehend who or what we are. Thus, the concept of unlife is what also retrospectively allows for the reconfiguration of the concept of (human) nature, making it a field open to experimentation. There are in fact no axiomatic formulae or predetermined models that can allow us to operate in such hypercomplex reality. The only possible way to navigate this chaotic cosmos seems to be by adopting an approach based on engineering and functional reasoning, which do not rely on fixed categories, but rather on paradigms in a constant state of evolution.

31.11.18 — 16.12.18 .Yen Chun Lin, Milan Mazúr, Lucia Sgrafetto, Natália Trejbalová

Gossamer Fog

'ABSINTHE', Group Show Curated by PLAGUE at Smena, Kazan

'Pupila' by Elizabeth Burmann Littin at Two seven two gallery, Toronto

'Auxiliary Lights' by Kai Philip Trausenegger at Bildraum 07, Vienna

'Inferno' by Matthew Tully Dugan at Lomex, New York

'Зamok', Off-Site Group Project at dentistry Dr. Blumkin, Moscow

'Dog, No Leash', Group Show at Spazio Orr, Brescia

'Syllables in Heart' by Thomas Bremerstent at Salgshallen, Oslo

'Out-of-place artifact', Off-Site Project by Artem Briukhov in Birsk Fortress, Bi

'Gardening' by Daniel Drabek at Toni Areal, Zurich

'HALF TRUTHS', Group Show at Hackney Road, E2 8ET, London

'Unknown Unknowns' by Christian Roncea at West End, The Hague

'Thinking About Things That Are Thinking' by Nicolás Lamas at Meessen De Clercq,

‘Funny / Sad’, Group Show by Ian Bruner, Don Elektro & Halo, curated by Rhizome P

'Don’t Die', Group Show at No Gallery, New York

'Almost Begin' by Bronson Smillie at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'I'll Carry Your Heart's Gray Wing with a Trembling Hand to My Old Age', Group Sh

'hapy like a fly' by Clément Courgeon at Colette Mariana, Barcelona

'Fear of the Dark' by Jack Evans at Soup, London

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