EXTENSION TURN
Australian Culture Forum Tokyo (September 2005), Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai (September 2006):
Published in 2006
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-3-86588-314-8 (ISBN)
Description
Extension turn provides a number of snapshots of a range of expansive situations - from artist´s and scientiest´s point of view. What these perspectives share is a strictly structural perspective. Proliferation is a mode of expansion that is visible in the coincidental and unruly growth of minute organisms/cells. Expansion functions through the creation of modular elements that are stringed together, piled up and heaped up to a neuralgic point of exhaustion. Different material qualities provide the phenomenon of expansion with different appearances: Stretchings, distensions, swellings are possible, but also fissures, cracks and implosions. The structural principles of expansion are rendered legible through the different forms of resistance geared towards countering expansive tendencies. (Tomas Eller, Wolfgang Popp)