LOAN
22 JAN - 24 JAN 2015
THÉÂTRE DE L'USINE - GENÈVE (CH)
Theatre of Operations
Loan from Frac Lorraine Collections: N. Beier & M. Lund
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In science and engineering, a black box is a device, system or object which can be viewed in terms of its input and output without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is “opaque” (black). Almost anything might be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, or the human brain.
The opposite of a black box is a system where the inner components or logic are available for inspection, which is most commonly referred to as a white box.
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A “theatre of operations” is a delimited geographical zone in which an armed conflict involving at least two adversaries is taking place. The related term “operating theatre” also describes the historical practice of surgery performed as a public spectacle.
This project incorporates “operations”—artistic gestures of addition, subtraction, multiplication and differentiation—in the present, and not in an immutable conception of time. Over a three-day period, these operations are being deployed in the form of an exhibition punctuated by activations, inside and outside the “black box”, in an ongoing flow, and with parallel temporalities. The objects, films, readings, interventions and exhibitions arrange their own mediation tools within the theatrical model. Coming from the vocabulary of art, by way of a productive tension they negotiate the hierarchy of the elements of the theatrical edifice, over-exposing to better deconstruct the conflict between actor and spectator, and bringing forth common areas of sensibility between live spectacle and visual art.
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