DORM by Isabelle Andriessen
with an audio work by Becket Flannery at 4.30pm and a photo presentation from Nikola Lamburov
Sunday May 15, 4pmIsabelle Andriessen investigates ways to physically animate inanimate (synthetic) materials in order to provide them with their own metabolism, behavior and agency. Her sculptures are agents inhabiting the liminal space between sculpture and performance, composed of materials that act and evolve, seemingly beyond control and often irreversibly.
On the occasion of the exhibitions exhibitions ‘DORM’ at De Pont Museum and BUNK at CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (both 2021), this publication brings together four distinct voices. Sci-fi writer and art critic Mark Von Schlegell with ‘The Gertrude Intercept’ contributes a short story in which an engineer is trying to locate a lost AI as a spaceship hurdles of course. In ‘Bog’ photographer Nikola Lamburov reimagines Andriessen’s sculptures, capturing their processes in sticky, eerie and surreal landscapes. Through fractals, liquids, vapors and metals, curator Laura McLean-Ferris’s essay ‘It wishes to run’ traces the state changes that are enacted across Andriessen’s works, and in doing so finds systems of porous entanglement that flourish in a world without humans.
‘DORM’ Is designed by Sabo Day, with contributions of Becket Flannery, Philipp Hindahl, Nikola Lamburov, Laura McLean-Ferris, Mark von Schlegell and published by MOUSSE.
