Concrete gown for immaterial flows

Kollectiv, G. and Kollectiv, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-9318 (2014) Concrete gown for immaterial flows. [Show/Exhibition]

Abstract/Summary

Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows was a sculptural installation and performance commissioned by the Hayward Gallery as part of the Mirrorcity exhibition (14 October 2014 - 4 January 2015). In an age of increasingly abstract power, ideology is disavowed as a twentieth century relic. We are instead told we are governed by pragmatic decisions based on charts and figures. Responding to this notion, Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows is comprised of a concrete materialisation of abstract financial charts. It forms a stage upon which a series of live music performances take place. Musicians were commissioned to produce new interpretations of Nathan Alterman's "Morning Song", an old Zionist love song to the state, promising to clothe it in concrete and cement. Thus, the immateriality of financial transactions is made physical and given the monumental language it lacks in a patriotic offering for our times.

Item Type	Show/Exhibition
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/57116
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Art > Fine Art
Uncontrolled Keywords	"Pil and Galia Kollectiv", Mirrorcity, "Hayward Gallery"
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