[spectre] HICA + grey) (area ::: Concretely Immaterial

[Darko Fritz]

HICA, the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire,  
Scotland

and

grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art, Korcula, Croatia



presents



Concretely Immaterial



25 July - 11 September, 2011



This collaborative project will form an exhibition in two parts,  
showing at grey) (area space of contemporary and media art, Korčula,  
Croatia, from 25th July - 7th August, and HICA, the Highland Institute  
for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14th August -  
11th September.

Artists showing at grey) (area will be Eloi Puig (Spain), Thomson and  
Craighead (UK) and Geoff Lucas (UK). Artists showing at HICA will be  
Samuel Cepeda (Mexico), Nina Czegledy (Canada)/ Marcus Neustetter  
(South-Africa), Darko Fritz (Croatia / Netherlands), Andreja Kulunčić  
(Croatia), Edita Pecotić (Croatia / UK), Transfer (Croatia) and Goran  
Trbuljak (Croatia).

The exhibition explores the possible physical nature of thought and  
the ‘virtual’. Virtual states and processes are variously employed  
in the artworks, especially through computer technology, though, in  
line with the title, Concretely Immaterial, the exhibition proposes  
these processes, as well as such things as the works’ effects in the  
spaces of the galleries, and the experience of the viewers, as  
substantial and real. This sense is perhaps exemplified by Darko  
Fritz’ presentation of the Internet error-message 204_NO_CONTENT.

The collaborative form of the exhibition provides a framework for this  
exploration, as both galleries are at some distance from each other,  
and occupy what might be considered remote locations; viewers, it is  
expected, will experience the exhibition at least partly through  
technology or their imaginations.

The relation of physicality and thought is also explored in the works  
themselves: Samuel Cepeda’s Clouds have no Nation parallels our  
knowledge of reality with the physical nature of clouds, a nature  
which science has difficulty in determining. Edita Pecotić’s  
Temporary Internet Files are time-lapse videos of a transforming  
landscape that display various layers of information, both real and  
virtual. Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter’s book project, Visual  
Collider, refers to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most  
powerful particle accelerator and the quantum effects it aimed to  
observe: analogous reactions are created for the viewer, prompting  
uncertain responses through juxtaposed imagery.

Time, as an essential aspect of this relation, is emphasized in works  
such as Andreja Kulunčić’s examination of the people of  
Korčula’s changing attitude to their city through history, or Geoff  
Lucas’ work, an animated text considering the paintings of Jackson  
Pollock and the concretization of individual actions in time and space.

  The exhibition has been curated by Darko Fritz and HICA.

Concretely Immaterial, at HICA, has been supported by the Henry Moore  
Foundation.

It will run at the Korcula Town Museum, Croatia, from 25 July - 7  
August, and HICA, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14 August - 11  
September.



grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art
http://grey-area.org

Gradski muzej Korcula / Korcula Town Museum, Trg Sv. Marka bb,
http://www.gm-korcula.com

HICA http://www.h-i-c-a.org