exhibition
6 - 21 December, 2018
Exhibition opening
Thursday, 6 November, 2018, 20:00
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
Gallery opening hours
Mon – Fri 17:00 – 20:00h (contact us to arrange the morning visits)
Taking game from rich landowners
Leading artist and writer James Bridle – whose most recent book New Dark Age surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, capturing the techno-pessimist hearts of the readers around the globe (review in The Guardian) – returns to Rijeka once again.
After curating this year’s discursive programme of Mine, Yours, Ours festival and acompanying Transnationalisms exhibition in Mali salon Gallery, this time Bridle will present a solo exhibition, My delight on a shining night, which will open at Filodrammatica Gallery (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka) on Thursday, 6th December, at 8 pm.
After the opening, you can visit the exhibition until 21st December, working days from 5 to 8 pm. If you wish to visit the exhibition in some other time, contact us by e-mail at info[at]drugo-more.hr or by phone at +385 51 212 957. Admission is free.
During the Second World War, engineers working on the new top-secret technology of radar would see mysterious shapes bloom across their screens, shifting and moving in great strands across the sky. They named these phenomena “angels”. Only later did ornithologists working with radar manage to prove that these shadows were flocks of birds, and use radar to learn much more about the natural world.
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Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)
“My delight on a shining night” is a line taken from the old English folk song, The Lincolnshire Poacher, which describes the pleasures of taking game from rich landowners. The opening bars of the Lincolnshire Poacher were also used as the call sign of a numbers station – a mysterious radio shortwave radio signal believed to be related to espionage – broadcast from RAF Akrotiri, in Cyprus, from the mid-1970s until 2008.
Map of Akrotiri, Cyprus. Author: Oona Räisänen (source: Wikipedia)
Akrotiri is the site of the one of the largest military radar installations in Europe and the Middle East, collecting intelligence on the Middle East and Russia far over the horizon. It is also home to a population of Greater Flamingos, who migrate around the Mediterranean. Since the 1970s, these flamingo populations have been tracked by the Station Biologique de la Tour de Valat in the South of France, whose database of half a million sightings over thirty years includes more than twenty thousand birds.
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)
James Bridle’s work is concerned with how political and social attitudes shape technology, and the ways in which new technologies in turn shape our understanding of the world. In My delight on a shining night, he connects histories of surveillance and covert communication, data and visuality, migration and nationalism through video, prints, and exercises in database recovery and storytelling.
James Bridle is an artist and writer working across technologies and disciplines. His artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, Domus, Cabinet, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Observer and many others, in print and online. He lectures regularly at conferences, universities, and other events. His formulation of the New Aesthetic research project has spurred debate and creative work across multiple disciplines and continues to inspire critical and artistic responses. “New Dark Age”, his book about technology, knowledge, and the end of the future, was published this year by Verso.
