en abyme
An exhibition on the relationships between temporality and catastrophe by Pedro Gómez-Egaña
Open 22 October - 13 November at Knipsu, Komediebakken 9, Bergen city centre.
Vernissage: 21 October 2011 at 8pm.
Opening hours: Thursday-Sunday at 1-5pm.
The performance "The Kinetoscope of Time" plays several times between 3:00pm and 5:00pm
Entrance is free.
The performance, video, installation and texts presented in this exhibition are part of Pedro Gómez-Egaña's ongoing questions surrounding the importance of temporality in our experience and understanding of catastrophe.
While catastrophe is at the centre of Gómez-Egaña's interest this show focuses on qualities of time and motion that contrast to those of conventional mediatic representations: A series of haunted works that seem to speak of our everyday expectation of something happening somewhere, sometime...
At the centre of this exhibition is the new performance "The Kinetoscope of Time": a short performance that tells the story of an installation presented as if it were a kinetoscopic projection. At the same time this piece invites the discovery of a series of doublings and cross references between the objects, videos and archive material throughout the exhibition space.
This exhibition is part of Gómez-Egaña's position as Research Fellow at the Bergen National Academy of Arts / Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
