Dani Gal, Failed to Bind (detail), 2013, two-channel slide projection, 10:00 mins. Courtesy of the Artist and Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf.

Dani Gal, Failed to Bind (detail), 2013, two-channel slide projection, 10:00 mins. Courtesy of the Artist and Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf.

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Reading Group: Aporia (Notes to a Medium), Zach Blas and Hito Steyerl

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In person at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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Wednesday, January 24 at 4:00 pm PST

Join the Belkin for a reading group in conjunction with Aporia (Notes to a Medium). The selected texts by Hito Steyerl and Zach Blas contend with ideas of doubt in technology – particularly in AI – and its ever-evolving interventions in our lives as tools of censorship and surveillance.

Aporia (Notes to a Medium) considers how history, mythology, and wishful thinking entwine across media and through mediums. In this moment where faith in media, government, and institutions is further collapsing, where binarization is on the rise, where expressions of doubt are tactical, this exhibition includes artists’ works that contend with systems of belief and perception to trouble truth’s material (and immaterial) forms. Holding space for doubt – a space of critical reflection that contains multiple truths or exposes the limits of truth – is a strength of contemporary art. Doubt is part of nuanced thinking, and ambiguity may be fertile ground for possibility and otherwise thinking. But Janus-faced doubt is also a tactic. From the Greek word aporos, the exhibition’s title engages the paradoxical or impassable. This impasse functions as an expression of real or pretend uncertainty, something the works in the exhibition collectively query and channel.

Aporia (Notes to a Medium) is curated by Melanie O’Brian and made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council, and the Belkin Curator’s Forum members. This exhibition includes work by Colleen Brown, Azza El Siddique, Dani Gal, Katie Kozak and Lucien Durey, Mark Lewis, Jenine Marsh, Jalal Toufic, and Elizabeth Zvonar.

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