To subscribe to the discussion list for Shock of the View, send
a blank email message to shock-subscribe@rhizome.walkerart.org

+ + +

The Shock of the View
Exhibition #3 (Space)

Atelier van Lieshout, "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"
Curator: Philippe Vergne

Hisham Bizri, Maria Roussou, "Mitologies"
Curator: Carl DiSalvo

Respondents: Mark Jones, Marcos Novak (including a VRML world), Patrick
Lichty

Hyperessay, "Space Beyond Meaning" by Carl DiSalvo
http://www.walkerart.org/salons/shockoftheview/space/

"As an artist, Joep Van Lieshout decided a few years ago to work as a
collective named Atelier Van Lieshout. Where this title can be read as a
reconsideration of the notion of authorship, the decision to adopt this
name also came out of the necessity, the changing nature of the work,
and the economy that such collective work would generate."–Philippe
Vergne

"Virtual space, as an artistic medium, allows the artist to create
experiences of impossibility: experiences that could not be re-created
outside of the virtual space. 'Mitologies' uses the opportunities
provided by the medium of virtual space to construct a series of
interactions in conjunction with the intertwined artistic and historical
narratives, which, over time, transubstantiate the immateriality of that
space into an experience of wonder."–Carl DiSalvo

"It is difficult to speak of the idea of 'space' within the virtual
without also considering the idea of the 'role' in which we ask our
audiences to be…"–Mark Jones

"'The Shock of The View' seeks to assist in the creation of that which
is alien to the museum within the museum itself, just as the works we
are discussing are doing within their own orbits. This phenomenon of
ubiquitous self-transmutation is our form of hypercharged modernity, what
I have come to term 'transmodernity.'"–Marcos Novak

"The museum is imploded here, as the whole of the virtual world is
compressed into the space of the CAVE reminiscent of the famous site in
Lascaux. Both, to paraphrase Carl DiSalvo, do so to invoke a sense of
wonder through exploration."–Patrick Lichty