Post Internet Survival Guide

January 28, 2011 – February 06, 2011
Opening: January 27, 2011 from 19.00 to 22.00

Gentili Apri in collaboration with The Future Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Post Internet Survival Guide as part of Transmediale.11 Response:Ability Festival and DAS Weekend.

Featuring works ranging from sculpture to interactive installation by: Lorenzo Bernet & Yannic Joray, Sam Hancocks, Martin Kohout, Oliver Laric, Christian Oldham, Aude Pariset, Tabor Robak, Timur Si-Qin, Micah Schippa, Kate Steciw and Damon Zucconi. This exhibition coincides with the release of Katja Novitskova’s book Post Internet Survival Guide 2010.

Post Internet Survival Guide is an exhibition that features the works of young artists who use various methods to explore severe ongoing merging of matter, social and (visual) information in the present world.

The shift to a multi-polar, mobile, post-democratic, gated, real-time set of conditions effectively redistributes the global balance of powers. The existing structures of our (Western) mode of thinking and being, including the flows of energy and value, the domain of aesthetics, the currency of art, and our role in the process that is civilization are being reshaped and re-articulated. The scale of these changes are reflected in the dynamics of formats—files, gadgets, species, identities, ideologies, brands, styles, cultures, natural disasters, memes, technologies—entering the ultimate platform and player of dissemination: Internet.

The words, artifacts, tactics, surfaces and experiences created by the artists in the show, mostly in relation to the tribal context of the web and the geo-economic frontiers of the world it is rooted in, induce various modes of translation between the reality of always, today and tomorrow—a survival kit for ideologies, an art show, a future leak.

A performance by Sam Hancocks featuring Justin Francis Kennedy will be held during the opening.