Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : Alienarium 5

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : Alienarium 5 / editors, Claude Adjil and Liz Stumpf.

Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique, 1965- (artist,, interviewee.). Adjil, Claude, (editor.). Stumpf, Liz, (editor.). Vila-Matas, Enrique, 1948- (writer of supplementary textual content.). Preciado, Paul B., (writer of supplementary textual content.). Obrist, Hans Ulrich, (interviewer.). Kontou, Tatiana, (writer of supplementary textual content.). Serpentine Gallery, (host institution.).

Summary:

"Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's first major institutional solo show in the UK since TH.2058 at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2008, the exhibition is a culmination of her decades-long interest in science fiction and continued research into deep space and alien life. Conceived site-specifically for Serpentine, the exhibition will feature almost entirely new work that engages both the gallery's internal and external space....For Alienarium 5, Gonzalez-Foerster has collaborated with writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado, musician Julien Perez and parfumier Barnabé Fillion, among others, to transform Serpentine into a spectacular and otherworldly environment. A new multi-user VR piece produced by VIVE Arts and developed by Lucid Realities contemplates alternative forms of connection through extraterrestrial embodiment, while an immersive 360-degree collage titled Metapanorama uses outer space as a framework to bring humans, non-humans and extraterrestrials together. Connecting to Serpentine's historical role as a tea house and a site of rendezvous, Alienarium 5 serves as a meeting point for friends from the past, the present and a time not yet named. Welcoming visitors into a world of expanded possibility the exhibition is, in the artist's words, "a mutant place contributing to the invention of new technologies of consciousness. It is an anti-War of the Worlds vision". Alienarium 5 is a proposal for freedom and interspecies connection. It is an experimental place in which to discover new forms of love and to imagine possible encounters with visitors from outer space"--Serpentine website.

Record details

ISBN: 9783753305936
ISBN: 3753305936
ISBN: 9781908617835
ISBN: 1908617837
ISBN: 9781908614735
ISBN: 1908614730
Physical Description: 68 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plan ; 31 cm + 1 poster (30 x 150 cm, folded to 30 x 30 cm)
Publisher: Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König ; 2024.
Distributor: Köln : Europe: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König ;
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:: Title from cover.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Serpentine South Gallery, London, April 14-September 4, 2022.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Alienarium 5 (neon) -- La planète close (vision) -- Alienflowers (holorium) -- La chambre humaine (bed) -- Alienarium (VR) -- Metapanorama -- The shyness of the alien / by Enrique Vila-Matas -- Mediocrity principle / by Paul B. Preciado -- In remembrance of the coming alien (alienor) -- Holorama 5 (LoieFullerforever) -- Afterword -- Dominque Gonzalez-Forester in coversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Metapanorama : a resting-place for apparitions / by Tatiana Kontou -- Key to the metapanorama -- Plan and list of works -- Replicante / by Exotourisme.