INITIATIVES

The incessant technological progress, the effects of globalisation, the dream of the network, constant access, immediacy and mobility hurtle us forward whilst leaving us breathless in their wake and seeming mercilessness towards the search for the new, better, more efficient. Time remains linear, even as we speak of simultaneity, collages, juxtapositions, non-linearity. Within these conditions, artistic experimentations and socio-political interventions outline the fields of the possible, assist in the transgression of boundaries that have become simultaneously insidious and further demarcated.

As Studio XX evolves in time and in its engagement to exploring women's multiple relations to digital technologies, we have also identified a necessity to refocus and recontextualise issues that continue to mark and influence their realities. Through its programming initiatives, Studio XX wishes to seek out the multiple territories, voices, acts that women have drawn for themselves within the vast sphere of human imagination.To accentuate the simultaneity and scale of those constant passages between the physical and the digital, to render their contemporaneity evident within technocratic discourse. Fields of singularities, local situations, zones of becoming where each individual carries within her the potential of meeting, action, being.

Curatorial Theme 2006 - 2008 :
Mobility

Studio XX engages in a new subject : the phenomenon of mobility and its effects on individuals and communities. The space created by cellular technologies, by radio, by satellites, exists and is supported thanks to the carrier waves that increase the density of the invisible. These spaces are made of microwaves, transmitting radiations that create transparent and coded environments. In a world of extreme individualism and new forms of solitude, we are initiating a move towards togetherness, towards the acknowledgement of others by displacing ourselves, by projecting ourselves in this communicative, ubiquitous space. Via opto-electronic equipment we connect with the rest of the clan, of the family, of the diaspora. These are the means of recognising and understanding each other through the circulation of words and voices tracing the paths of hope and solidarity. Paradoxically these tracking devices also give birth to other ways of dealing and seeing : surveillance, detection and espionage. The bipolar reality of mobility turns each of us into a traceable object.