Contingency Plans: or, Living with Unstable Grounds
Saturday, Mar 29, 201410 PM — Sunday, Jun 1, 201410:45 PMEDT
| 298 Bei Suzhou Lu Shanghai, China
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CONTINGENCY PLANS: OR, LIVING WITH UNSTABLE GROUNDS Contingency Plans: or, Living with Unstable Grounds considers how the unexpected forces of the earth shape landscapes and ourselves. This exhibition draws on understudied cases from overlooked places. Through 19 case studies assembled by over 20 contributors, and exhibiting more than 200 objects, our long held assumptions about nature and culture are overturned. Urgent new concepts are created that navigate the complex entanglements between ourselves and the instabilities of the ground. This research based exhibition, curated by Adam Bobbette and Daan Roggeveen, features content that ranges from amateur cell phone videos to fine art photography. All material is treated equally as stories of entanglements: government reports are interpreted with the same intensity as a post-card and aerial photograph. All cases studies are based on an unexpected terrestrial event, contributed by artists, journalists, photographers, activists and scholars from around the world. Examples include: a landslide in Hong Kong, persistent desertification in China, volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, the seepage of mining waste in West Papua, and the gradual accumulation of the surface of the earth in the UK. As each event unfolds, it entangles social systems. This is because the instabilities of the earth are inseparable from the social processes which reshape them. Tracing them, as the cases in Contingency Plans do, shows us how new realities have been – and continue to be – fabricated. The exhibition is therefore a tool-kit for how to live with the uncertainty that pushes upon us from all directions, not least the uncertain future of the Earth itself. http://ash.arch.hku.hk/2014/03/05/contingency-plans-or-living-with-unstable-grounds/
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