Tabita Rezaire’s video installation Deep Down Tidal (2017) and a work by Kiluanji Kia Henda will feature as part of Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories at Migros Museum from the 7th of March to the 31st of May. Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories is the first in a series of two exhibitions that will explore the relationship between humans and nature. The art gathered in both shows scrutinizes the interactions between man and nature from a variety of angles and limns potential future scenarios of life on earth. The works on view in the first chapter draw attention to the ways in which the environment has been appropriated in the pursuit of power and resources, shedding light on the repercussions for both nature and social fabrics. They also interrogate conceptions of knowledge in the natural sciences that have been developed in the course of man’s power-driven appropriation of the natural world.
An accompanying publication with essays by Benjamin H. Bratton, T. J. Demos, Suad Garayeva-Maleki & Heike Munder, Reza Negarestani and Jussi Parikka, as well as short texts by Milena Bürge, Anna Fech and Rabea Kaczor will be released in the summer of 2020.
Navigating digital, corporeal and ancestral memory as sites of struggles, Tabita Rezaire embraces scientific imaginaries to tackle the pervasive matrix of coloniality affecting our body-mind-spirits. Inspired by quantum and cosmic mechanics, her work is rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality intersect. Deep Down Tidal excavates the power of water as a conductive interface for communication. From submarine cables to sunken cities, drowned bodies, hidden histories of navigations and sacred transmissions, the ocean is the site of a complex set of networks. As information and communication technologies become omnipresent in our industrialized realities, the film prompts us to reconsider the cultural, political and environmental forces that have shaped them.
