NEO- CRAFT: IDEAL WORLD TECH: Chicago
Ideal world tech. Ideal world tech. Ideal world tech. We’ve been waiting for you.
The Way the Mystic Sees exhibiting artist Marilyn Volkman joins WEINBERG/NEWTON GALLERY for a live performance of NEO- CRAFT: A Prelude to Ritual-tech, featuring Silke Xenia Juul
Curator’s Note
When contemplating technology and surveillance today, my thoughts go to developing means to defy being captured. How do we obscure ourselves – our bodies and their movements, our faces and their intentions? To obscure not necessarily in order to conceal, but, sometimes oppositely, in order to reveal social potencies and cultural expressions – in and for the public. How do we challenge an image to become more than a tool to merely identify a person in this world? The artists I am in dialogue with have given shape to these concerns in a more profound way than I can articulate. Their artworks offer entry points for topics including the motivations of security and types of self-presentation beyond the optical.
— Nabiha Khan-Giordano
Exhibition Dates / Public Programs
Sep 6–Dec 14, 2019
Performance
Sep 10, 2019, 6–7PM
Marilyn Volkman performs NEO- CRAFT: A Prelude to Ritual-tech. NEO- CRAFT is a fully integrated system of philosophical thinking tools allowing art producers to proactively engage with systems of power by utilizing expressive potential for personal and social gain. The project creates a range of experiences for individual artists and community members through live seminars, informational videos, audio guides, workbooks and takeaway objects. In a web of defamiliarized coordinates, these are, if anything, time-tested residual strategies for self-realization.
NEO- CRAFT is a fully integrated system of philosophical thinking tools allowing art producers to proactively engage with systems of power by utilizing expressive potential for personal and social gain. Focusing on the creation of meaningful art experiences, the philosophy of NEO- CRAFT does not propose specific outcomes, but re-imagines the values of professionalism with a special interest in creating ties between contemporary capitalism and developing arenas. The project creates a range of experiences for individual artists and community members through live seminars, informational videos, audio guides, workbooks and takeaway objects. In a web of defamiliarized coordinates, these are, if anything, time-tested residual strategies for self-realization.