The black curtain is the instant when the eyes shut
20 March 2020

at Whitechapel Gallery

17.03.2018

The second programme of Its origins are indeterminate, The black curtain is the instant when the eyes shut, looks at strategies of appropriation as spell-craft and conjuration. Circulation and versioning of texts and images from various sources becomes a form of viral spread. The programme’s title is extracted from Ring by Koji Suzuki.

Programme list:

The Artwork in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn, Keith Sanborn, 1996, 3:38

Versions, Oliver Laric, 2010, 9:06

HELLO OLIVER LARIC :0), Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad, 2016, 1:58

Wrong then, wrong today, Katie Hare, 2016, 7:17

Object Interviews (Part III), Patrick Hough, 2015, 5:32

Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar, Manuel Saiz, 2005, 1:47

Shuffle, Douglas Waterman, 1971, 4:00 (excerpt)

Amethyst, Linda Stupart, 2016, 0:56 (silent)

Colossal Cave, Graeme Arnfield, 2016, 11:12

Ceibas: Shannon’s Entropy, Evan Meaney, 2008, 5:54

Owed to (C)ode, Hannah Catherine Jones, 2014, 4:39

Ask the Insects, Steve Reinke, 2005, 7:19

Object Cinema, Darren Banks, 2016, 5:26

Respondent (performance): Uma Breakdown

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The black curtain is the instant when the eyes shut essay in programme guide available here.

The Artwork in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn, Keith Sanborn, 1996

Versions, Oliver Laric, 2010

HELLO OLIVER LARIC :0), Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad, 2016

Wrong then, wrong today, Katie Hare, 2016

Object Interviews (Part III), Patrick Hough, 2015

Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar, Manuel Saiz, 2005

Shuffle, Douglas Waterman, 1971

Amethyst, Linda Stupart, 2016

Colossal Cave, Graeme Arnfield, 2016

Ceibas: Shannon’s Entropy, Evan Meaney, 2008

Owed to (C)ode, Hannah Catherine Jones, 2014

Ask the Insects, Steve Reinke, 2005

Object Cinema, Darren Banks, 2016

Diagram from performance, Uma Breakdown