Transverse hyperspace

Installation, video-essay, UV-print, photo-sculpture, installation, smells, texture, mirror

Organised as the dimly-lit transit space of a laboratory, the exhibition restages selected aspects of the transitional state of culture on its way to a dystopian world of the future (“the world without us”), with the help of recovered artefact-ruins. Skidan’s pieces together the landscape of forthcoming world from scraps of information left behind after unknown events, supplemented by video installation and objects.Through video-essay she constant reipscription of one’s self within the digital landscape as a guest in a landscape’s memory.

Installation includes the various means of sensory perception, olfactory space, haptic sculptures, immersive video environments.The world of «Transverse hyperspace» is the alive laboratory with ruins of a digital environment, thespeculative memories of an artificial intelligence of the of the future recalling and a sensitive tracks of the nature.

 

During exhibition artist offered new strategies for mental orientation to erase boundaries the alienation of the body and represented new identity.The show was accompanied by three collective performance sessions, combined with lectures about the dark ecology and post-humanism, in addition to performances by guest lecturers and sound artist.These served to connect the main points of the exhibition, with the attendees immersed in different layers of perception, physical exploration and intellectual drift.

Transverse hyperspace

Transverse hyperspace



Part of the project is the video-essay «Memory is action alredy happend, expirience tht never been happend». Video was formed from the Instagram stories accumulated by the artist for 2015-2018. The deliberate brevity of each fragment, the compilation of vertical videos into a single landscape is a way of interacting with a digitalized memory, which is no longer completely human. Perception of temporality, body and identity, ways of thinking, memory functions change in the era of circulation and continuous production of information. From snippets of video, Skidan imagines a landscape of a displaced world, proposing strategies for grasping an elusive space, constantly inscribing oneself in a digital landscape, and various ways of sensing it.
Music by Mathias Glassow, Mica Levi and original music and sound-design by GRTVN.

Fragment gallery, Moscow, 2018
Curated by Sasha Burenkov.