VISA 480 Theory Class Group Exhibi tions
Reception: Friday December 4th\, 4-7pm
December 2
-5\, 2009
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday noon-4pm
Gallery located in r
oom 112\, Koerner Library\, 1958 Main Mall\, UBC\, Vancouver
The gall ery located in room 112\, Koerner Library presents the work of students fro m VISA 480 in a two-part exhibition. The class\, split in two\, proposes th ematics to each other and formulates two group exhibitions. Doublethink is the second exhibition running from Wednesday December 2 – Saturday December 5\, 2009.
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mi
nd simultaneously\, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies w
hile genuinely believing in them\, to forget any fact that has become incon
venient\, and then\, when it becomes necessary again\, to draw it back from
oblivion for just so long as it is needed\, to deny the existence of objec
tive reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one den
ies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethi
nk it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admit
s that one is tampering with reality\; by a fresh act of doublethink one er
ases this knowledge\; and so on indefinitely\, with the lie always one leap
ahead of the truth.
- George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. (Marti
n Secker & Warburg Ltd\, London) 1949. 220.
As the globe un
dergoes a continuous transformation\, where space and time are compressed t
hrough various technologies\, we are burdened with the necessity of consumi
ng a constructed reality\, this much we know. We are delivered rapid-fire n
ews\, images\, and stories that must first pass through our own sensory sie
ve. This has sparked our interest in the orchestrated reality that is comp
osed and performed for us and by us on a daily basis.
While Orwell's seminal novel may offer a vision of the future that seems at the very least hyperbolic\, it also offers some startling insights into the nature of the forces that construct our own reality. With this in mind\, Doublethink bri ngs together the work of twelve artists whose that’ range from childhood ex perience to time travel to choreography to the occult.
As reference t o the ways in which Orwellian language leads to a concomitant sanitization of thought\, Doublethink proposes to explore the processes by which our thi nking – as a society as well as individuals - only seems natural\, when in fact it is profoundly not our own. At what point do our mind and our body c ease to communicate with one another? How does this affect our ability to p erceive the world around us? To what extent are our interactions based on r eaction to earnest experience\, as opposed to embedded notions of propriety ? What is the role of language in all of this? As artists\, how might we im agine art as having the ability to expose the forces that shape our world s o profoundly\, when art\, in turn\, may be just another product of this inv isible agenda? And most importantly\, who is driving this thing?
Image: Hands of the Puppeteer\, Tina Modotti (1929)
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