Bibliothèque, Université Lille 3, Tourcoing, France, 2015
Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, 2016
Curated mobile exhibitions with associated publications
Bibliothèque, Université Lille 3, Tourcoing, France, 2015
Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, 2016
Curated mobile exhibitions with associated publications
MICROMEGAS:
Vagabond Flux
Micromegas: Vagabond Flux
New work has been commissioned in response to Voltaire’s Micromégas text of 1752, a seminal work in the genre of science fiction. Key ideas offered to the artists and writer were scale, human foible, scientific superstitions, science as ruse, science as spectacle, anti-utopias, human essence, and the formation of ideas.
This publishing project and mobile exhibition that includes the first edition, MICROMEGAS > POWERS OF 10, brings together in its second edition posters by Jonn Herschend, Stefanos Pavlakis & Tobias Kauer, Jacques Longuecolline, Mick Peter, Bik Van der Pol, Laure Prouvost, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen and a booklet with essay by Emma Bolland, ‘Micromegas, Dog Star: Dreaming Transmissions of a Cosmonaut Bitch.’
MICROMEGAS: VAGABOND FLUX was first presented in Tourcoing, France in 2015 as part of Vagabond Flux, a mobile modular presentation unit commissioned by Fondation de France’s 'Nouxeaux commanditaires' scheme, by the Masters CEAC students (exhibition-production) of Lille 3 University.
The posters form a component of the exhibitions, and when folded, each is an element of the publication. The exhibitions, publication and an academic paper investigate notions of portability, reproduction, distribution and presentation in contemporary
art practice and curation with reference to Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en Valise. Number Two in Duchamp’s series is held in Scotland, in the National Galleries of Scotland collection. The project also explores issues central to our art practice; recycling, appropriation, reproduction, re-presentation and artist-led curatorial practice. It references Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's unique Artists’ Books Collection Dundee (abcDundee) to highlight contemporary issues within transmediation and ekphrasis. Each component of the project contributes to an exploration of the innovative possibilities of visual publishing.
Posters, 2015
Digital print on archive paper
1189 x 841 mm (A0)
Mick Peter
Jacques Longuecolline Laure Prouvost
Jonn Herschend
Bik Van der Pol Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Stefanos Pavlakis & Tobias Kauer
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