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[charlottecossonemmanuelleluciani]

FRIEZE.com picks DOMESTIC!

[bayramovartfndn]

A DBAF favorite: Tallinn, Estonia 

“an art world looking for international references, conversation, and exhibition” -Leslie Moody Castro via Frieze

[alwaysalreadyangry]

"But now it’s 2013, and there’s the feeling that the straight story can no longer normalize the complex, unpredictable forces of reality that intrude with greater and greater frequency, let alone the incessant stream of big data reporting on these complexities. What is the intuitive story of climate change? Shifts in the market? Mutations in your brain? Your browsing history?

Specialists turn to non-intuitive technologies like quantitative analysis, simula­tion modelling and probability in order to trace narratives that account for the present and make predictive narrations of the near future. But for the rest of us, this kind of non-human storytelling is counterintuitive to our intuitive UX. We receive it, but we don’t feel it, so we can’t embody it. Anxiety takes hold when embodied narration fails.

The evolution of the narrative form necessitates mutating our intuitive ux for story­telling with a coefficient of persistent anxiety. Anxiety is a condition that cannot be eradicated, but can be managed. Is it possible to shift from a culture that wallows in anxiety towards the creation of narrative tools that contain and manage a bug of anxiety within them?

Imagine a narrative format that has probabilistic outcomes. Imagine a narrative format that can simulate unscripted contingencies against scripted choreography. Imagine a narrative format that requires its authors to embrace contingency and irreversibly change during its making. Imagine a narrative format that doesn’t promise a scheduled time to end. Imagine a narrative format that erodes as you erode."

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 Ian Cheng, from Future Fictions

[whopays]

Frieze (online)

Report: £60 for a1,000-word arts blog post in 2013. Report: £40 for a 500-word exhibition review in 2013.