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Dane Mitchell, EXTENDED PRESENT – TRANSIENT REALITIES
Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
08 April —
04 September 2022
In the words of the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, we are experiencing an ‘absence of epoch’, a serious rupture of human existence and a general loss of orientation, not least due to the incompatibility of technological evolution as well as social and biological systems. In the light of a future that looms as an apocalyptic endgame, however, this ‘interregnum’, ‘age gap’ – an interstice, ‘vacuum’ – can also be compared to a prolonged state of transition.
The exhibition, EXTENDED PRESENT - TRANSIENT REALITIES, focuses on the state of permanent transience: it captures the moment in a process in which the present time dimension expands and the characteristics and inner events of this state can be observed closely by means of visual arts. It is as if we were seeing all the simultaneous processes of a point of condensation (the present) in one and the same continuity, capturing the penultimate moment as a kind of stretched-out present. The works on display show that, in addition to the need to process the past, the problematisation of the future is becoming increasingly pronounced in visual art practices, insofar as it offers the opportunity to understand and critically examine our uncertain present as a transitional period, partly through an analysis of the possible future.
In the words of the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, we are experiencing an ‘absence of epoch’, a serious rupture of human existence and a general loss of orientation, not least due to the incompatibility of technological evolution as well as social and biological systems. In the light of a future that looms as an apocalyptic endgame, however, this ‘interregnum’, ‘age gap’ – an interstice, ‘vacuum’ – can also be compared to a prolonged state of transition.
The exhibition, EXTENDED PRESENT - TRANSIENT REALITIES, focuses on the state of permanent transience: it captures the moment in a process in which the present time dimension expands and the characteristics and inner events of this state can be observed closely by means of visual arts. It is as if we were seeing all the simultaneous processes of a point of condensation (the present) in one and the same continuity, capturing the penultimate moment as a kind of stretched-out present. The works on display show that, in addition to the need to process the past, the problematisation of the future is becoming increasingly pronounced in visual art practices, insofar as it offers the opportunity to understand and critically examine our uncertain present as a transitional period, partly through an analysis of the possible future.