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Harrison Pearce I 15th Gwangju Biennale, Artforum

Harrison Pearce I 15th Gwangju Biennale, Artforum

For the 15th Gwangju Biennale, director Nicolas Bourriaud describes setting out to explore “the sound of ecosystems” in the age of the Anthropocene. His title, “Pansori: A Soundscape of the 21st Century,” takes its cue from the Korean folk tradition of pansori, an extended song-story delivered in public space. In such a sprawling exhibition—encompassing seventy-two artists from thirty countries across nine venues—this framework ultimately offered little help for navigating the diverse works on display. Rather than attempting my own bird’s-eye view, I want to focus on a group of audiovisual installations in the main exhibition hall, in which I found a more coherent thread in the literary trope of the katabasis, or the journey to the underworld.Writer Robert Macfarlane has described how ancient stories—Enki’s journey for Gilgamesh, and those of Orpheus and Aeneas—speak to the archaic roots of our concepts “to understand” and “to discover” in a descent, in the search of knowledge, beyond the human realm.

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Artist talk Harrison Pearce & Joris Krijger

Artist talk Harrison Pearce & Joris Krijger

Video of the artist talk that was organised between Harrison Pearce and the Dutch technology philosopher Joris Krijger. Pearce and Krijger discussed their shared interests in ethics, technology and AI's interference in human life. The artist talk was held during the finissage on October 5, 2024, of Pearce's solo exhibition “Graceful Degradation“ at GNYP Gallery Antwerp.

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Harrison Pearce I Finalist for Sigg Art Prize 2024

Harrison Pearce I Finalist for Sigg Art Prize 2024

The Sigg Art Foundation has announced the launch of the 2024 Sigg Art Prize, an initiative aimed at redefining the boundaries of artistic creation through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Sigg Art Prize brings together an esteemed jury composed of leading figures in art, technology, philosophy, and cultural management. The jury members include: Nicolas Bourriaud – Curator and Art Critic; currently Artistic Director of the 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, Joseph Fowler – Head of Art and Culture at the World Economic Forum, Anna Longo – Philosopher, Writer, and Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Antonio Somaini – Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, Anne Stenne – Independent curator, co-founder and Artistic Director at The Feral & Gediminas Urbonas – Director at MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology

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NEW ARRIVAL

Kaifan Wang

GNYP Gallery is proud to present the first monograph of Kaifan Wang featuring essays by Xiaoyu Weng, Martin Herbert and Marta Gnyp.

The Chinese artist, living and working in Berlin, stands out through his unique approach to the never ending field of abstraction through fusing Eastern and Western techniques and concepts.

<em>Kaifan Wang</em>