29/50 POSTmatter

21 Jul-26 Jul 2015

Overview

Digital magazine POSTmatter is invited to produce an exhibition and a publication taking place at ICA Studio and on the digital platform activated by POSTmatter editor-in-chief Louise Benson. Through embracing the daily production of content on the dichotomy of nature and its digitalisation as artifice, and inviting a large set of contributors ranging from artists to writers, curators and theorists, Benson opens the ground for interrogation, evaluation and production. Evoking an aesthetic akin to Marcel Broodthaer’s seminal work ‘Jardin d’Hivers’ (1974), the exhibition set-up will be composed of artworks and pot plants that are placed in various configurations. The gesture of borrowing representations from a natural surrounding acts as a trigger to further the thematic investigation on environment and digital landscape. The setting for ideas include works by Emma Charles, Mark Dorf, Jacob Kierkegaard and Clement Valla. The project includes essays written within an hour limit, web-chats, artist contributions for POSTmatter website and a live event at fig-2.