Alternative Museum
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Expansion Arts:
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These artists explore the aesthetic possibilities of art and technology. Through the simple use of low-technology, such as video electronic installations, digital generated images, interactive works and photography the artists convey both political, social and cultural issues in new forums.
Adam Baer's serie Untitled, stages nightmarish scenes demanding detailed preparation before the final shot, to comment on the time process of photography. Ute Juerss' Stulpungen, a series of wrinkled images of human skin resembling creased landscapes, juxtapose high-technology to the evolution of man and earth. Inga Frick's Mobius: The World & I Part I and II, collages of personal miniature photographs, create an hallucinatory imagery that exposes the compound nature of perception as well as identity. Border Methamorphosis by Armando Rascon combines a video of his family with various objects relating to the area on æborder' between Mexico and United States, thus exploring the question of identity from a bi-national perspective. Momoyo Torimitsu's Somehow I don't feel comfortable, a giant inflatable rabbit cramped up in a gallery corner flanked be small light boxes on the walls, and Border Methamorphosis both comment on the meaning of socio-political and popular icons. Taryn Fitzgerald's video Knead is a both disturbing and humouristic narrative about the anxiety of parenthood. The bottles, plexiglass and vinyl plastic in Shu-hui Tsai's Fountain is a kitschy celebration of Tawainese culture. By conceiving technology as a means to apply art to an interface of private, public - and even global spaces - these artists encompass a wide area of aesthetic expressions.
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