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How
many extra layers can we graft onto reality before it collapses?
EXTRA proposes a project of stratifying reality, working with
artists who continually question the limits of the real. EXTRA
attempts to probe the nature of art today in relation to reality.
No longer is the extraterrestrial portrayed as an hysterical
little green man. He now takes human form, slipping from unremarkably
normal to ever-so-slightly suspicious. Gliding between the spaces
of the real, his next frontier is a territory without location.
EXTRA asks that we move away from the concept of the interstice.
A notion --not far from the point sublime of the surrealists,
an in between, or an offshore platform-- that has the benefit
of grounding the idea of the indefinable in a domain that was
reassuringly definable: a geographic point. In this new realm
of gliding over, in and between the surfaces of reality, the
world no longer seems like a series of points forming lines.
Rather, it is manifested in a series of tangent planes, all
at once forming and traversing reality's layers.
Art takes on the diverse forms of reality in order to reveal
its extreme elasticity. It glides over the visible and exposes
the limitless number of layers and strata.
Here, with EXTRA, we will see how art and artists contribute
to the densification of the real, to complexify reality. Art
does not attempt to develop new worlds or new platforms outside
of reality. It constitutes a movement, an energy, a constant
oscillation which serves to shake up our interpretive system.
It is the pump, which dilates and contracts reality. |
EXTRA is supported by the swisspeaksFESTIVAL
citywide celebration of contemporary Swiss art, lifestyle,
business and education, during spring, 2003. www.swisspeaks.org.
EXTRA
is supported by Presence Switzerland, Pro Helvetia Arts
Council of Switzerland,
Fonds Etant Donnés, SWISS International Airlines the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy. Very
special thanks to Transcontainer Transport, Inc., Cliff
Diver and Stanley Johnson Stiftung.
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