PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
SAMUEL BRZESKI
Exhibition, April 1 – 24 | Opening @ 19:00–21:00
Artist talk, April 24 @ 14:00–16:00
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A sea of language flows through a panopticon of palm sized screens vying for attention and demanding cognition. Mirrored echoes of the disjunctions between phonocentric and logocentric forms of communication act through stuttered speech, residual sound, fading text. In an environment where information overload is deployed liberally, text begins to haunt as it accelerates to an almost spectral speed. Barely visible — a ghost image.
The solo exhibition Performance anxiety presents new multimedia installation works at BABEL visningsrom for kunst. Taking the methods of digital age language-based information transfer as a starting point, the work focuses on such things as speed reading applications, practices of compulsive list-making, and neoliberal productivity drives. The screen is seen as a sculptural object in its own right; the hand-held tablet as a pressing conduit. Through video, text, sound, and voice, Performance anxiety explores acts of reading, misreading, and force-feeding.
This exhibition is supported by Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturråd, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, and BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst.
Samuel Brzeski
Samuel Brzeski’s (1988, London) current work deals with the situation of language within a post-digital context, particularly in relation to articulations of affect. His works search out the place and presence of the emotive body within the swirl of excess language surrounding the contemporary subject.
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