[spectre] exh. "MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict" opens in Canada

[Andreas Broeckmann]

exhibition

MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict

15 January - 10 April 2011
at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre

and 15 January - 12 February 2011
at the Union Gallery, Stauffer Library

Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6

http://www.aeac.ca/exhibitions/upcoming/mywar.html


MyWar investigates identity, participation and the reality of 
conflict in a digitally networked world.

Artists: Renzo Martens, S.W.A.M.P, Thomson & Craighead, Dunne & Raby, 
Milica Tomic, Sarah Vanagt, Oliver Laric, Joseph DeLappe, Harun 
Farocki.


Blog, participate and share are the battle cries of a media culture 
in which the boundaries between private and public, personal and 
political have been eroded by social media. This exhibition, MyWar - 
Identity and Appropriation under War Condition, explores the impact 
of web 2.0 on the experience of war.

The show seeks to pinpoint real and imagined levels of moral 
implication in wars that are often only experienced in a mediated 
form. It presents art and media projects with a radically personal 
affection to war, whether as reality or fiction, motivated by 
serenity, desperation, projection, or hysteria.

MyWar is produced by FACT, Liverpool, and Edith Russ Site for Media 
art, Oldenburg, in cooperation with ISEA2010 RUHR. Curated by Andreas 
Broeckmann, Heather Corcoran and Sabine Himmelsbach.

Catalogue available from Kehrer, Heidelberg:
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/en/mywar-978-3-86828-134-7.html



(the show is available for further venues from May 2011)