Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIGs) 2018

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ATHERTON, Michelle (2018). Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIGs) 2018. [Artefact]

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Creators:	ATHERTON, Michelle
Abstract:	This first formulation of the Repository of Irrational Gestures swivels attention towards the irrational, exploring those actions, thinking and behaviours that could appear more illogical in comparison to other alternatives. RIG’s brings together a sequence of irrational gestures from myths, insect noises, film stills, neo-feudal structures, Avant Garde references, occult motion, song lyrics and more global outpourings. This irrational inventory is a collective endeavour including contributors from artists, academics and an entomologist. So begins the irrational collection. This first version presents a large-scale single-screen projection with soundtrack. The piece plays on a loop and resists any traditional narrative arc as it moves haphazardly between the visual, audible or textual. In this single-screen version the audience are seated in comfortable armchairs, immersed in the black space of the installation. The dissonant affect of the work comes from the visual cacophony of the montage sequence, where the impulse to see affinities and make unified rational sense is disrupted or confounded by each successive clip in the sequence Through a jarring index of partial information, the archive enables an examination of the unstable cultural specificity and the disruptive affects of the irrational and its currency in our times. In its unauthorised form, RIG’s runs counter to sanctified cultural politics and structures.
Official URL:	https://www.kunstraum.at/index.php/sammlungen?lang...
Item Type:	Artefact
Additional Information:	The first presentation of RIGs an evolving artwork as archive was exhibited as part of the exhibition They are sticky, some might say magnetic KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd Gallery, Linz, Austria 2018 with artist Jette Gejl and TC McCormack. As we live in unstable times; the social order shows its disorder, the traditional categories of knowledge and concepts of history are no longer liable. In search of new beginnings, we looked to the promise of new models of union, social arrangements that appeal to our ideals, aspirations, and worldviews. This exhibition is conceived as an excavation site, a staging to revalue public and private collections in whatever form – whether animal, mineral, technological, mythological or not. In part the artist’s aim is to seek out places where future possibilities might be caught in the present through looking and framing objects, processes and actions from the past. To use, and abuse social formulations and their forces as a way to re-order physical materials and re-formulate critical frameworks. Funded by Linz verädert, Pro mente oö, Firedenstadt Linz, Linzag Linien.
Date:	31 July 2018
Event Location:	KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd Gallery, Linz, Austria 2018
ID Code:	26580
Deposited By:	Symplectic Elements
Deposited On:	08 Jul 2020 11:34
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2021 15:50

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