Exhibition
Ongoing
WARP CRASH Exhibition by Chaos Village
Thu 03 Oct — Thu 07 Nov 2024Price
Free
Timetable
Start: Thursday, October 3, from 4pm to 11pm.
End: Thursday, November 7.
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm - 8pm.
End: Thursday, November 7.
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm - 8pm.
Location
Pilar Expo (First & Second Floor)
Triomflaan, Entrance 6
Triomflaan, Entrance 6
Defined as a minor dysfunction of an electronic system, the glitch symbolizes the error in late stage capitalism through its artifacts, artifacts that try to hide their conditions of production through polished images, sounds or objects. The glitch unveils the fragility of these artifacts, their materiality and their potential failure. By twisting them we look for speculative ways out of a technocratic system.
The glitch, as developed by the researcher Legacy Russel, and its aesthetic of failure is inherently intertwined with marginalized identities and communities, and draws a link between both an artistic and technical angle, and our relationship to our own identities, as individuals and as a collective. Glitched identities are identities that can’t be grasped by the norm: this failure to function within the standards is a necessary refusal, and this glitch creates for us a space in which new possibilities of being, individually and collectively can thrive.
Glitch demystifies objects, sounds and images. It steps away from standardization, formats, material fetish: in clear opposition to high tech, high definition, hi-fi we turn towards pixels, broken images, parasites, distorsions, interferences as artistic tools.
Through hacking of existing objects, and by bending technologies, genres, and approaches between the analog and digital, we attempt to break the fetishism linked to technological aspirations, objects and their uses, as they play a role in new shapes of domination. With small acts of hacking, we refuse an “expert” approach to tech, art and music, often synonymous with domination dynamics: to technical prowesses we prefer playful experimentation and errors, and joyful hijacking of tools and genres, be they fictional, analog or digital.
Glitch refuses standards, norms, classifications, it creates a temporary utopian space in dystopia’s gaps.
The glitch, as developed by the researcher Legacy Russel, and its aesthetic of failure is inherently intertwined with marginalized identities and communities, and draws a link between both an artistic and technical angle, and our relationship to our own identities, as individuals and as a collective. Glitched identities are identities that can’t be grasped by the norm: this failure to function within the standards is a necessary refusal, and this glitch creates for us a space in which new possibilities of being, individually and collectively can thrive.
Glitch demystifies objects, sounds and images. It steps away from standardization, formats, material fetish: in clear opposition to high tech, high definition, hi-fi we turn towards pixels, broken images, parasites, distorsions, interferences as artistic tools.
Through hacking of existing objects, and by bending technologies, genres, and approaches between the analog and digital, we attempt to break the fetishism linked to technological aspirations, objects and their uses, as they play a role in new shapes of domination. With small acts of hacking, we refuse an “expert” approach to tech, art and music, often synonymous with domination dynamics: to technical prowesses we prefer playful experimentation and errors, and joyful hijacking of tools and genres, be they fictional, analog or digital.
Glitch refuses standards, norms, classifications, it creates a temporary utopian space in dystopia’s gaps.
About the collective
Chaos Village is an emerging pluridisciplinary Brussels-based collective consisting of Marion Laser (transdisciplinary artist, researcher, she/he), Simlo (multidisciplinary digital artist he/him), NMSS (DJ, music producer, they/ them) and STELLIUM (DJ, researcher, she/they) with ties to different local scenes in Brussels. Blending the members’ individual artistic practices and backgrounds on issues touching upon the tensions and potentialities between utopia, dystopia, and technology, Chaos Village thrives in a large spectrum of mediums to articulate notions of glitch and in intimate contexts and collective narratives. In this experimental and pluridisciplinary process, the collective tries to create a community of hackers in its broader sense: hackers as a network of brains making abstraction, twisting fictions while being aware of their agency.
Participating artists
Laura Conant, RRaR, Simlo x Marion Laser
Price
Free
Timetable
Start: Thursday, October 3, from 4pm to 11pm.
End: Thursday, November 7.
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm - 8pm.
End: Thursday, November 7.
Open Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm - 8pm.
Location
Pilar Expo (First & Second Floor)
Triomflaan, Entrance 6
Triomflaan, Entrance 6
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