TotalRecall

The project TotalRecall is an interdisciplinary project where art and philosophy together investigate a topic that stems from an everyday experience of being virtually surrounded by images and texts.
These images and texts are often in a digital form, which has some consequences for the project, but it is not the digital-technological character in itself that is in the forefront. Instead, it is an experience of images and texts in a new kind of time and space which can most easily be described by means of new media: mobile phones employed to take and distribute photos and videoclips but also textmessages (and tweets); the internet with emphasis on social media (Facebook), blogs and YouTube etc.

The exhibition will focus on landscape painting (landscape in the wider sense) and is emerging through discussions between the participants.

TotalRecall (Old Text)

Labyrinth serves as an analogy for the world of images in an age of Flickr, YouTube and cell phone cameras, where there are endless variations of one image, one beside the other, duplicate, copy, transformations and reinterpretations. Our relationship to the images has changed. Our times demand a new way to manage image concept. By inserting the painting into the labyrinthine world of images, the substance is processed / digested in a subjective / physical way which creates an interesting dialectic between the exterior, interior and virtual reality.How can we shape this pervasive force that surrounds us from all directions. There is a image flow with a presence, quantity and speed like no other. What historical, psychological, philosophical references / metaphors can bring sense in this context. How will it affect us? Can painting operate as a tool to maintain a kind of integrity? Is it possible or even necessary to resist. It would be interesting to see what comes out of this.

The exhibition will focus on landscape painting (landscape in the wider sense) and is emerging through discussions between the participants.