Materiality I Alternativa 2012
Alternativa 2010–2012 was a project prepared by Wyspa Institute of Art and the City of Gdańsk, with additional committed funds from the European Commission, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as the Province of Pomerania, among others.
Materiality was a two-year European project that was developed in collaboration between Wyspa, Vessel in Bari, Polytechnico in Tomar and Kibla in Maribor.
Materiality exhibition
Wyspa Institute of Art
Ul. Doki 1/145B, 80-958 Gdansk, Poland
May 26 — September 30, 2012
www.wyspa.art.pl
www.alternativa.org.pl
Aneta Szyłak, Arne Hendriks, Ines Moreira, and Leire Vergara, assisted by Maks Bochenek, have curated Materiality, as the project that explores the visual, sensual, transformative, political and scientific aspects of materials. It is a space-distributed research attempt towards material graspability, accumulation, densification and transformation, looking at its political, scientific, performative and experimental capacity. It seeks potentiality in the way the material vibrates or circulates formlessly and how it comes into shape. It explores the emotional relationship to things and softens the boundary between the body and the materials as well as the material of the body itself.
Materiality’s artist list includes:
Lara Almarcegui, Rosella Biscotti and Kevin van Braak, Maureen Connor and Kadambari Baxi, André Cepeda and Eduardo Matos, Marcelo Expósito, Iñaki Garmendia, Martí Guixé, Sally Gutierrez, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sjef Henderickx, Arne Hendriks, Mateusz Herczka, Hiwa K, Ernst van der Hoeven, Katarzyna Józefowicz, Grzegorz Klaman, Kasia Krakowiak, Robert Kuśmirowski, MML STUDIO [Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki, Gilles Lepore], Erlea Maneros Zabala, Paulo Mendes, Partizan Publik, Lex Pott, Patrícia Azevedo Santos, Hito Steyerl, Michał Szlaga, Ronald van Tienhoven, Mariusz Waras, Jólan van der Wiel, Silvia Zayas as well as Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, and Florian Zeyfang.
Artists’ talks and lecture performances include:
Hito Steyerl, Lara Almacequi, Emilio Moreno, Marcelo Expósito, Sally Gutierrez, and Oliver Ressler.
Speakers who deliver talks during Alternativa 2012:
Franco Berardi, Alfredo Camerotti, Okwui Enwezor, Pascal Gielen, Miguel Robles Duran, and Irit Rogoff.
Materiality Reader
Materiality reader is a book edited by Krzysztof Gutfrański, Leire Vergara, Aneta Szyłak, Inês Moreira, Arne Hendriks and published by Wyspa Institute of Art in 2012, as a part of Alternativa Art Festival. The book has an english, and a polish version, titled Materialnosc.
Contributors
Bruno Latour, Arjun Appadurai, Tim Ingold, Mathias Goeritz, Elizabeth Grosz, Ewa Opałka, Rolf Hellebust, Susan Schuppli, David Graeber, Rem Koolhaas
Wyspa Institute Of Art
Gdańsk 2012
ISBN 978– 83−935174−1−1