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#airedeturner

Terry Smith

#airedeturner

Venice Agendas

Turner Contemporary Margate CT9 1HG

2015

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Our moment frozen and yet still vaporous is November 21 2015. The catalogue of the interventions curated by Waugh Office in collaboration with Venice Agendas and the Turner Contemporary Gallery began with these words:  "See and hear contemporary artists from around the world at Turner Contemporary, during a day of discussion and performance." - Turner Contemporary Press Release.

 

As part of the Venice Agendas event series and in collaboration with Waugh Office, this event responds to themes of risk and boundaries, as well as cultural and personal borders, Experience live art, and watch artist interviews and performances from Dubai, London, Manchester, Cape Town, Budapest, North Carolina, Mexico City, Chicago and New York, onsite and live streamed through Periscope, screened in our Foyle Rooms and available via Twitter @TCMargate #airedeturner."

Observations and misperceptions.

 

The naming of things foreground the perambulations of words that mediate and carry the autonomic structures of the material world in their ephemeral equations.

 

The title #airedeturner navigates the mind into the tumbling meteorology and pigments orchestrated by J.M.W. Turner whilst connecting surreptitiously the borders of two parts of a continent split by geological tension. These fissures of communication as the title Crossing Borders suggests, draws us the dominance of technologies, inviting travelers into virtual spaces of domestic and public enclosure.

 

Like the great Air Loom imagined by J.M.W. Turner's contemporary James Tilly Mathews, a London tea broker who was committed to Bethlem psychiatric hospital in 1797, or nets haul nothing free from the madness of the moment,

 

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Once More With Feeling.

 

Within the sigh of Dreamland and the seaside shelter where TS Eliot composed verses for the Wasteland, in the aftermath of the First World War, we assembled contributions on the question of risks and borders. A week previous to the event The Devil by the Eagles Of Death Metal was brought to a catastrophic terminus through weaponry in Paris.

 

The images of the audience taken seconds before the music ended depict a typical paradox go our era. Those present looked mesmerised both by the band on stage and their capacity to record and share a moment via social media, we arrived before Newspapers or Television could define meaning. Perhaps, this is what Marshal Mcluhan described as "Hot Media".

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The Medium Is The Message.

 

Of course as Social Media and Emojis relay the discourses around the attacks it was also witness to silences and lacuna in regard to Europe and it's borders. Earlier in that year the context of our scene was set at The 56th Venice Biennial.

 

In All The World's Futures by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Agendas explored the opacity and refutation of borders with a significant focus on the issue of The Cultural Boycott to highlight the ongoing dissonance of a globalised culture. Such mappings have become the cipher for ethical interstices between art and political order of other worlds. Our platform was destined to expand on new territories, but the ennui of intellectuals is always dreaming of total and shocking realities. With the giddy halter skelter we loose ourselves in the footnotes and references are falling fast.

 

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