SENTINELS
5 Day exhibition and events series by Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena Sanders
Feb 28 - Mar 3 2020
"An earthly shudder only perceivable by animals. Foreboding dreams, bodily sensations and weather phenomena. Unease at a glimmer of movement at the edge of the forest, hackles raised in response to what can only be perceived at the periphery. Sentinels is a 5-day exhibition of work by the two artists, each dealing with subliminal sensations of environments undergoing change." See Lab is excited to invite you to a 5 day exhibition and events series in the Project Space by artists Helena Sanders and Sissel Marie Tonn.
We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny! Performance program: A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.
The exhibition will also host two events, in which invited artists engages with and respond to it's theme.
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders,
Jonathan Reus and Sissel Marie Tonn
OPENING: Friday, February 28th, 20:00h
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: 20:00 - 23:00 h
EXHIBITION: 29th of February - 3rd of March
TIME: 17:00 - 19.30 h
Description: In this exhibition Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena will show new iterations of existing/ever-evolving work. Sissel will show a new iteration of her work “An Education of Attention”, which explores sensory perception, attention and embodied memory related to living in an earthquake zone. Based on personal accounts of people living in Istanbul the work traces the different modes of attention enlisted in the sense of ecological awareness that comes with living on a fault line. This weaves together inexplicable bodily sensations, attention to strange animal behavior, dreams, and foreboding weather phenomena preceding an earthquake, mixed with an awareness of domestic space becoming a potential threat, and the increasing encroachment of urban development on public spaces.
Helena Sanders presents new and recent work using natural and synthetic pigments, residues, and folktale as an entry point into uneasy kinships with un-namable or invisible bodies / phenomenon. She has been exploring the potentialities of color to register fleeting effects and intercept barely-audible missives.
In this instance, she looks to the Mine as the folkloric site where the business of extraction is enmeshed with superstition and the language of magic. The Miner tries to coax a temporary geological peace through inefficient ritual and naive offerings at odds with the rhythm of Capital. The Mine speaks back in gold, coal, cobalt, cave-in, noxious gas, fires, and in the thawed glowing pink biological pigments of vanished oceans squashed into shale, or in black and red cannibal pigmented microbes and fungi, eating in the boundaries of prehistoric cave paintings, refreshing these images in perpetuity.
The exhibition will run from the 29th of February - 3rd of March.
//OPENING PERFORMANCE NIGHT//
28-02-20:
20h:
We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny!
21h-23h:
Performance program:
A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders
A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus
A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.
29-02-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17hpm.
01-03-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17h.
01-03-20:
17h - 19h: The Reading Room #34 - The Art of Noticing, Collective reading of a chapter from Anna Tsing’s: “The mushroom at the end of the world”, with guest artist Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou. Read more here.
02-03-2020 - 03-03-2020:
Exhibition open by appointment.