PCAI is glad to share that Collection Artist Rindon Johnson will participate in KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s new exhibition ‘Poetics of Encryption’ with the performance lecture, titled Surveillance as Material. The digital programme, curated by Nadim Samman, spans analogue and digital media featuring historic and newly commissioned works over all floors at KW by more than 40 international artists. Johnson’s performance lecture will take place on Wednesday March 20 at 7 pm at the KW studio.
More information will follow shortly.
More about the exhibition:
Though we rely on digital tools for many things, we rarely understand how they work. Moreover, due to the proprietary nature of much corporate tech, even the most curious among us cannot gain deeper insight. Today, we are forced to come to terms with our relative lack of power in the face of inscrutable systems. What symptoms of this personal and political drama register in the cultural field? What moods, symbols, or narrative frames capture the aesthetics and politics of exclusion, occlusion, secrecy, and speculation concerning technology’s inside? This extensive group exhibition at KW builds upon the recent book by Nadim Samman titled Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene. It surveys an imaginative landscape marked by Black Sites, Black Boxes, and Black Holes—terms that indicate how technical systems capture users, how they work in stealth, and how they distort cultural space-time. These themes form the basis three chapters that play out across all gallery floors at KW. Spanning analogue and digital media, Poetics of Encryption features both historic and newly commissioned works by more than 40 international artists.
More about the artist:
Rindon Johnson (b. 1990, US) is an artist and poet. His works are based on language. Johnson has presented solo exhibitions at Albertinum, Dresden; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; and the Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Johnson has participated in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum; Kunstverein Freiburg; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Whitney Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Literaturhaus Berlin; Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel; among others. He is the author of Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People (2016), the VR book, Meet in the Corner (2017), Shade the King (2017), and The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss (2021). He was born on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people. He lives in Berlin.
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