UNCERTAINTY-19 x EP7
Admist the events that unfolded in 2020 trigerred by the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to organize a work-in-progress exhibition at EP7 in Paris, allowing artists to showcase
revisited or unrealeased artworks. We were lucky to be able to organize an exhibition that
was viewable from the outside in the respect of sanitary guidelines and social distancing.
We decided to focus on the notion of uncertainty and the role that interfaces has, yet again, played in the first months of the pandemic while the world went into a globalized lockdown.
The (digital) interfaces are porous matters, extracted from our realities – here, a reality impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are living in a cacophony, in which our worries, fears and feelings are being amplified. But it is a
paradox that these same interfaces also became our saving grace, proving to be essential in our daily lives.
The exhibition UNCERTAINTY-19 follows that unstable temporality. The health crisis, coupled with the economic crisis, has impacted and devastated the cultural sector in the last few months. That’s why we decided to invite a few artists
to build with us a time-space in which we can continue to dare and create. Here's to a foggy climate caused by the grief of our past lives, but also the beginning of new opportunities.
Have a look at the online catalogue to know more about the artists and their works.
Thanks to EP7, and to the
participating artists: (➡️ 🌁 signifies you can hover to see an image of
the artwork.)
Sandra Araújo - G
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Adrien Jou with the collaboration of Elie Meignan - moins que rien (less than nothing)
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Kyo Kim - no long sleeves will hide it
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Francis Kussatz - The body as material:
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Stefanie Luchtenberg - intimate mode
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Quinn Scargill - bedroom tour <3
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Vincent Tanguy - General Synesthesia
(➡️ 🌁)
website
February 2020: The Wrong x
Emotional Interfaces' Closing Party
Following our participation in The
Wrong Biennale 2019-2020, we had the honour to shift onto the offline world by
organizing the closing party at Bar à Bulles of La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris,
France.
Being the occasion for the audience and the artists to
celebrate the end of The Wrong 2019-2020 and its pavilion Emotional Interfaces,
we arranged an exhibition format for the night. We turned the Hall of La Machine
du Moulin Rouge into a viewing room in which the audience immersed into the
artists' films, while the upstairs' space highlighted physical installations and
short moving image works.
Thanks to The Wrong, Bar à Bulles of la Machine du Moulin Rouge for hosting us,
and to the participating artists.
The selection of the artists remained identical as the
online format, with additional works being presented: (➡️ 🌁 signifies you
can hover to see an image of the artwork.)
Pipe Amatayakul - Anger Shift
Project
website Harmonie Aupetit - Long Weaving 🆕 / Autoportrait
🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website Sandra Araújo - G / MOM, I'M NOT EATING 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website Emma Cozzani
and Mathieu Tremblin
- French Lovers
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Emma Mathieu Kyo Kim - green space 1 / 2 🆕 / 3 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Francis Kussatz - fragile construct
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Stefanie Luchtenberg - intimate mode
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Daniel Pinheiro - You and I (a.k.a Lonely
Digitals) / Random Neutrality 🆕
(➡️
🌁)
website Quinn Scargill - MY INTERNET / My Body Tour 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Vincent Tanguy - General Synesthesia / The
Wandering 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website Roman Trilo - Human?
(➡️ 🌁)
website Adam Tuch - thisisforyou.world
(➡️ 🌁)
website Charlie Tweed
- Oporavak / NOTES
FROM THE SUBSURFACE 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Filipe Vilas-Boas - Scrollathon / Carrying The
Cross 🆕
(➡️ 🌁)
website Betty Zhang - Fine, Thank You
(➡️ 🌁)
website
November 2019: The
Wrong Biennale
How do you feel, today?
Everything happens so much on our screens and its interfaces, through constant flows and streams. Being swamp by an abundance of informations, the Internet’s digital interfaces have consequently impacted and engineered new types of
behaviours.
We invited artists to reflect and create for Emotional Interfaces’ first online exhibition, which was first part of The Wrong
Biennale 2019-2020. The Wrong is the largest biennale with a focus on digital art,
and is divided between online events (called pavilions) and offline events
(called embassies). We started by setting up a pavilion in the format of an
online exhibition, as well as hosting Instagram residencies.
Access the
exhibition here (desktop viewing only). All Instagram
residencies can be traced back on our
account.
Thanks to the
participating artists: (➡️ 🌁 signifies you can hover to see an image of
the artwork.)
Pipe Amatayakul - Anger Shift Project
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Harmonie Aupetit - Long Weaving
(➡️
🌁)
website Sandra Araújo - G ➕📲 online
residency
(➡️ 🌁)
website Emma Cozzani and Mathieu Tremblin - French Lovers
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Emma Mathieu Kyo Kim - green space 1 ➕📲 online residency
(➡️ 🌁)
website Francis Kussatz - fragile construct ➕📲 online
residency
(➡️ 🌁)
website Stefanie Luchtenberg - intimate mode
(➡️ 🌁)
website Daniel Pinheiro - You and I (a.k.a Lonely
Digitals) ➕📲 online residency here
(➡️
🌁)
website Quinn Scargill - MY INTERNET
(➡️ 🌁)
website Vincent Tanguy - General Synesthesia ➕📲 online
residency
(➡️ 🌁)
website Roman Trilo - Human?
(➡️ 🌁)
website Adam Tuch - thisisforyou.world
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Charlie Tweed - Oporavak
(➡️ 🌁)
website Filipe Vilas-Boas - Scrollathon
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Betty Zhang - Fine, Thank You ➕📲 online residency
(➡️ 🌁)
website
Open Call: Emotional Systems 🆙 🆙 🆙
This open
call is an ongoing reflexion on the state of things at the moment: don't we live
in some rather Emotional Systems?
⛔️ 🔜 We are not set on the terms of the
open call yet, please do come back as we will make sure to update as soon as we
are set on the application process.
Admist the COVID-19 pandemic, we live in strange and emotional
times — affecting all of us at different degrees, revealing to each their own
privilege and fragility, which avail to no surprises.
The systems we know
have all been challenged. We have cratched the surfaces of its, the surfaces
underlying the flat layer of an illusory peace, eyes wide opened – unvealing the
humans supporting the healthcare system or the febrile supply chain that ties
the resources we need, and the real impacts of a globalized economy
interdependant on heavy flux and hard powers.
But what we see isn’t the
collapse of all — at what some could have foreseen the collapse of society as we
know it in the West, we are calling out the rise of communities towards
solidarity, and the insurrection of the nation against unfairness.
Now,
the interfaces ties us more than ever. In the present time in which we all feel
strongly about the systems we live within, we are more so than ever counting on
the digital interfaces to connect and inform us.
Although they won’t ever
replace the offline world, the digital interfaces have been playing a very
different role — shifting away from trying to replicate the offline within the
online.
