Where Do We Go Now!
Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
© Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
About This Exhibition:
Where Do We Go Now! is a series of online exhibitions at VASA Project curated by Rui Goncalves Cepeda, which has been running from October 2013 and will end in September 2014. This programme is built around the subject of geography as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested territories.
The programme of exhibitions evolves around two key conditions: on the one hand, it addresses the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without as “a journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate”, borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts expressed in her essay What is a Theorist? (2006); whereas, on the other, this series inquires in to the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age, from being a visual medium for collective memory to issues about copyright and authorship, and on the limitations of photography in terms of narrative capacity.
The proposed photographical works, to be shown throughout the present period (October 2013 and August 2014) engage in narratives and stories that explore the authority of ‘geography’, as a body of knowledge with political implications in the age of global communication, to unravel the disruption of the social order in the public and private space.
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman are a photography duo base in the USA that through works, like Geolocation: #HowToKeepARelationshipWithMe (New York City, 2012), examine and explore notions related with memory and witness. The disruption caused by their technical and visual approach invalidates a series of geographical conditions affecting our human activity. In Where Do We Go Now! Part V: Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman aims to assess the dynamics and notions engaged in the four previous compositions, with Délio Jasse, Carlos Palma, Jane & Louise Wilson and Lara Shipley, while leaving loose a series of questions related with the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age (from being a visual medium for collective memory to issues about geography), and on the limitations of photography in terms of narrative capacity. Geolocation: #HowToKeepARelationshipWithMe (New York City, 2012) is supported by Light Work, Syracuse, New York (USA).
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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