“From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.”
― Richard Siken
“To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
MICROLOGIES is a research project that compiles a series of group exhibitions, presentations, workshops and writings that revolve around the aesthetics of small-scale, micro materiality poetics and minimum gesture politics. This project proposes to explore the potential of minimum events and small gestures to open up spaces of philosophical discernment in relation to large scale, structures, patterns, events and paradigms.
The eclectic group of contemporary artists in these exhibitions have been invited to take the challenge of creating a very small but nevertheless significant piece, which is no bigger than 2 1/4" (5.7 cm) on each side, the exact measurements of a standard Rubik's Cube. The cube is used here as a measurement unit since it serves as an analogy of a small object that allows, through a relational game, for playful reconsiderations of spatial relationships. The character of this exhibition is interdisciplinary. Only two rules were given to the artists: (1) the projects proposed must be no larger than the maximum proposed size, and (2) the projects should not be scaled-down models of larger works but pieces that are meant to exist and display their full potential in this particularly small scale. Scale takes a key role in any aesthetic experience.
Curators: Francisco Alarcon, PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University; Aitor Lajarin, co-founder an co-director of DXIX projects.
Featured artists: Francisco Alarcon, Bettina Buck, Katarina Burin, Pablo Capitán del Río, James Dean, Mark Dineen, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Victor Esther, Javier Fresneda, Kim Garcia, Ismael Iglesias, Lucy Kim, Del Harrow, Sohin Hwang, Fermín Jimenez Landa, Won Ju Lim, Jan Tumlir, Alice Könitz, Daniel Mendel-Black, Regina de Miguel, Dominic Miller, Noha Mokhtar, Fermín Moreno, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Matt Saunders, Kim Schoen, Joe Sola, Jaro Straub, Pauline Shongov, Tommy Støckel, Michael Zahn
Sponsors: RCC; Arts@RCC.
LOCATION:RCC, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20191206T220000Z DTEND:20191207T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR