14th Apr - 18th Apr 2023
Curatorial Statement :
SUBTERRANEAN ORGAN is a durational, experimental programme curated by Daisy Wang @daisydiziiii and Celeste Viv Ly @virtio.djvu The exhibition programme inquires into the interiority and exteriority of the more-than-human body in relation to fluidity, contingency, and the architectural and performative spaces within and without.
Taking the manifold structure of an organ and biological osmosis as a method for charting the space, the programme reflects on how a body/space could be potentialised as a totality and the constituents of the totality in its fluidity and multifarious exchange. As the biological organ takes on abstract forms that are self-contained and yet infinitely interlinked within the bodily system and the ambient system outside the body, this programme maps the inner connection between the human and the more-than-human. It uses the body as a framework for bio-cosmic nourishment, building a ‘cosmology’ of life, where the form is fluidly mutable, dissolving and shaping itself anew. It is able to create a diverse instinct environment that expands our understanding of the body and its possibilities of inviting and engaging with alternate systems.
The artists in the show work across a range of mediums including sound, image, text, spatial works and live art, exploring how a work could be living, fluid, in becoming as singular entities and part of a larger collective entity through mobilising the in-between spaces, the process of interchange and transgression of boundaries. In blurring the lines between the inside and outside, self and other, and the human and more-than-human, the still and time-based works turn the exhibiting architectural space into a living, fluid, and disobedient collective body. Through this approach, we also aim to provide certain capacities of a nexus – to traverse, adapt, transcribe, and connect the subjectivities among its inhabitants, and most importantly, a continual process of feeling and thinking through the self and other in an intersubjective web of becoming.
Exhibition Plan:
Venue:
Crypt Gallery, London, UK
1: The Ones Who Became The Ocean, Breathmagik by Buket Yenidogan
2: Torque MMXXIII by Celeste Viv Ly
3: Erotic Proximity by Chang Gao
4: ∿🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔∿ by Cherry Song
5: The Group by Di Chen
6: Empty Rockpool by Eleanor Turnbull
7: Dirty Waters by Eleni Zervou
8: Projected Routes of Energy by Emma Papworth
9: Flaming Tongue by Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou
10: Only if You Heard the Earth was Awakening, Tapiola, Metamorphsis by Freya Fang Wang
11: The Triad Entanglement by Friendred Peng
12: Susanna's Howling Liver, Dr. Ppillary Mucinous., PH. D. (1789-1821) 'The Visionary', Vision One (A Poor Translation for Ethromycemiatic Transmission) Returning With the News. (Cir.1791), Fight Suit Disguised as Collage by Kate Howe
13: Diamond Heart 0024, Prototype Drawing 02, Prototype Drawing 03, Prototype Drawing 04 by Lulu Wang
14: D String Manipulation, Sonata II by Li Yilei
15: Nyoronyoro-bara-pichapicha Machines by Maya Masuda
16: Stretched Out Like Elastic Bands, Bleeding Back Into the Darkness by Noelle Turner
17: Foreword by Sasha Ercole
18: Fantasia by Shadow (Collective Led by Xiaoying Lin)
Participating Artists:
EXHIBITION PAMPHLET
Buket Yenidogan @buketmio, Celeste Viv Ly @virtio.djvu, Chang Gao @gao.chang_rca, Cherry Song @rvouger, Di Chen @chendi_chen_di, Eleanor Turnbull @norajelly, Eleni Zervou @zervou.helen, Emma Papworth @emma_papworth, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou @d_mtrk, Freya Fang Wang @freyafangwang, Friendred Peng @friendred0.0, Kate Howe @katehowestudios, Li Yilei @li_yi_lei_, Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx, Maya Masuda @maya_erin, Noelle Turner @noelleturner_, Sasha Ercole @ercolesasha, Shadow(Collective Led by Xiaoying Lin) @lyn_xiaoying
Curatorial Team:
Curators: Daisy Wang @daisydiziiii and Celeste Viv Ly @virtio.djvu
Curatorial Assistant: Fiona Chen @fionahchen1811
Graphic Designer: Hairun Li @lihairun
Exhibition Photos:
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1: Exhibition Venue, 15th Apr 2023.
2: Performance, Transmission, Kate Howe, 15th Apr 2023.
3: Installation View, Dirty Waters, Eleni Zervou, 14th Apr 2023.
4: Installation View, The Group, Di Chen, 14th Apr 2023.
5: Installation View, ∿🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔 ☀ 🥔∿ , Cherry Song,14th Apr 2023.
6: Installation View, The Ones Who Became The Ocean, Breathmagik, Buket Yenidogan,14th Apr 2023.
Photographer: Yanran Wang
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7, 8,10: Performance, The Traid Entanglement, Friendred Peng, 15th Apr 2023.
9,11: Performance, Transmission, Kate Howe, 15th Apr 2023.
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Photographer: Yanran Wang