Strange Attractors
Academy Valand, MFA Free Art, 2017
28 Apr - 21 May 2017
Rebecca Cusworth, digital sketch as part of An attempt to find out how it feels to be wet and wooly, 2017.
Karl Bergström, Working Theory for Boo !, 2017.
Geraldine Juárez, Definition of 'Screen' from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889, 2017.
Joel Danielsson, Plastic Cast of a Cut Down Tree, 2017.
Ram Krishna Ranjan, Still Image of Video Installation: Erasure, 2017.
STRANGE ATTRACTORS
Academy Valand, MFA Free Art, 2017
28 April - 21 May 2017
Curator text by Jason Bowman
Summary
Göteborgs Konsthall presents this year's graduation exhibition with students from the master's program in free art at the Academy Valand, University of Gothenburg.
students
Karl Bergström, Rebecca Cusworth, Joel Danielsson, Geraldine Juárez and Ram Krishna Ranjan
With the exhibition Strange Attractors , the long-term cooperation between Göteborgs Konsthall and Valand's Master's program in free art continues.
We live in an era of extreme indecision, disagreement and imperfection. The facts should be alternatives and uncertainties reliable. Our senses and bodies are increasingly choreographed by unclear phenomena. Gender equality is taken for granted and thus becomes the opposite of demands for structural change. Affärsvärlden's all-site presence makes us increasingly busy. Data becomes our identity and information is control. Cohabitation is suggested to be transnational and interplanetary. At the same time, the world collapses because of greed. We live in overtime and approach the point as it is too late.
What do we do and what do we do? Are we deliberately misled? Will art reflect such a confusing state? What can thoughtfulness lead to? Where else did innovation drive the imagination? Can art still claim to be independent in this time of dissatisfaction? How can influence patterns be visualized?
Strange Attractors are found in what may seem unpredictable, random or chaotic phenomena. Conceptually, they allow us to reflect on complex relationships and the dynamics of conditions and structures, events and experiences, which may be difficult to handle and understand.
The artists Karl Bergström, Rebecca Cusworth, Joel Danielsson, Geraldine Juárez and Ram Krishna Ranjan will investigate some of today's urgent affairs in their works and projects. With their art, they analyze a number of contemporary circumstances, conditions, structures, dissatisfied expressions and meanings. Strange Attractors is therefore an exhibition that is not organized around an individual theme. Instead, it is a series of unexpected twists, an uncomfortable constellation of artistic thinking and different expressions. The fact that gathered on this public institution does not call for consensus, some may instead repel each other and the whole promises no clear guidance. Nevertheless, this exhibition suggests that we still have the ability to contemplate how relationships can arise in the formation of our supposed foreignership.
Jason Bowman is a university lecturer at the Academy Valand and the exhibition's curator. He is an artist with curatorial focus, writer, researcher, visual arts consultant and program director for master's education.
Strange Attractor, sometimes translated into chaotic, or mysterious attractors, is a mathematical term within chaos theory.
Academy Valand, MFA Free Art, 2017
28 April - 21 May 2017
Curator text by Jason Bowman
Summary
Göteborgs Konsthall presents this year's graduation exhibition with students from the master's program in free art at the Academy Valand, University of Gothenburg.
students
Karl Bergström, Rebecca Cusworth, Joel Danielsson, Geraldine Juárez and Ram Krishna Ranjan
With the exhibition Strange Attractors , the long-term cooperation between Göteborgs Konsthall and Valand's Master's program in free art continues.
We live in an era of extreme indecision, disagreement and imperfection. The facts should be alternatives and uncertainties reliable. Our senses and bodies are increasingly choreographed by unclear phenomena. Gender equality is taken for granted and thus becomes the opposite of demands for structural change. Affärsvärlden's all-site presence makes us increasingly busy. Data becomes our identity and information is control. Cohabitation is suggested to be transnational and interplanetary. At the same time, the world collapses because of greed. We live in overtime and approach the point as it is too late.
What do we do and what do we do? Are we deliberately misled? Will art reflect such a confusing state? What can thoughtfulness lead to? Where else did innovation drive the imagination? Can art still claim to be independent in this time of dissatisfaction? How can influence patterns be visualized?
Strange Attractors are found in what may seem unpredictable, random or chaotic phenomena. Conceptually, they allow us to reflect on complex relationships and the dynamics of conditions and structures, events and experiences, which may be difficult to handle and understand.
The artists Karl Bergström, Rebecca Cusworth, Joel Danielsson, Geraldine Juárez and Ram Krishna Ranjan will investigate some of today's urgent affairs in their works and projects. With their art, they analyze a number of contemporary circumstances, conditions, structures, dissatisfied expressions and meanings. Strange Attractors is therefore an exhibition that is not organized around an individual theme. Instead, it is a series of unexpected twists, an uncomfortable constellation of artistic thinking and different expressions. The fact that gathered on this public institution does not call for consensus, some may instead repel each other and the whole promises no clear guidance. Nevertheless, this exhibition suggests that we still have the ability to contemplate how relationships can arise in the formation of our supposed foreignership.
Jason Bowman is a university lecturer at the Academy Valand and the exhibition's curator. He is an artist with curatorial focus, writer, researcher, visual arts consultant and program director for master's education.
Strange Attractor, sometimes translated into chaotic, or mysterious attractors, is a mathematical term within chaos theory.