SB13 in Sharjah
10 March - 12 June 2017. Curator: Christine Tohmé. Exhibitions, programmes, projects in Sharjah by 73 participants.
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The Third Part of the Third Measure, 2017
HD video, 50 min
Commissioned by ICA Philadelphia and Sharjah Art Foundation
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
Founded by Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar, The Otolith Group creates films, installations, audioworks and performances informed by methods drawn from the cognitive estrangement generated by science fiction. Their film and video works incorporate post lens-based essayistic aesthetics that explore the temporal anomalies, anthropic inversions and synthetic alienation of the posthuman, the inhuman, the non-human and the anti-human.
The Third Part of the Third Measure (2017), a new audiovisual composition commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and SB13, creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of avant-garde composer, pianist and vocalist Julius Eastman. The Third Part of the Third Measure focuses on what The Otolith Group describe as ‘an experience of watching in the key of listening’, invoking political feelings of defiance and the collective practice of movement building that participates in the global struggles against neoreactionary authoritarianism. The Third Part of the Third Measure invites viewers to attend to exemplary ecstatic aesthetics of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as ‘full of honour, integrity and boundless courage’.
This work is supported by UK/UAE 2017, a year of creative collaboration and cultural exchange organised by the British Council.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
Kodwo Eshun: * 1967 London, UK.
Anjali Sagar: * 1968 London, UK.
Established 2002, London.
© Stills: The Otolith Group. Repro: Haupt & Binder
10 March - 12 June 2017. Curator: Christine Tohmé. Exhibitions, programmes, projects in Sharjah by 73 participants.