Exhibiting artists:
Sonja Hinrichsen
Rachelle Viader Knowles
Philipp Geist
Brooke White
Jiang Zhi
LiveBox: Inter-Place
Place in a Flat World challenges the homogenization of globalization
through the poetry, mystery, singularity and history found in the
artists’ immediate environs.
Place n. area, location, locus, point, position,
site, situation, spot, station, venue, whereabouts, city, district,
hamlet, locale, locality, neighborhood, quarter, region, town, village,…
source: Collins Thesaurus.
We could add “web” to the above, just where are we when
we’re surfing the web? There is much hype about a world that
is becoming flatter and more homogenized through globalization; the
artists in this exhibition confront homogenation by focusing on the
immediacy of their localities.
Sonja Hinrichsen’s
focus is on immediate environments, investigating landscapes and cityscapes
as well as industrial spaces. Hinrichsen grew up in heavy populated
Northern Europe and has a fascination for the open spaces of the United
Sates.
Rachelle Viader Knowles
explores her neighbor Berine's relationship to living in Regina Canada
while imagining he really lives in NY in "In My Mind I Live in
New York".
Philipp Geist's "Riverine
Zones Connected", documents from underwater to water surface
multiple estuaries and rivers in Europe (usually recognizable heavily
populated water ways and ports).
Brooke White's "Passing
Through", is literally her displacement on journeys abroad. Places
are not experienced, not really known, simply observed, merging into
one long narrative.
Jiang Zhi's "Fly
Fly” takes us to an internal space, a small apartment. I the
tiny cramped quarters a hand mimicking a swan gently soars through
the interior seemingly longing to escape.
“Inter-Place” probes a place within
a virtual space. Video-streaming sites provide a personal screening
room, open 24-7 no matter where you physically reside. An iPOD plays
a collection of videos about locality, which have been downloaded
from a variety of video streaming sites.
"Nebraska",
installation by Sonja Hinrichsen