Photo credits: Jamal Nxedlana, photo by Georg Gatsas. Ravi Govender, photo private. Lars Bang Larsen, photo private. Design: Lauretta Kubbi/Kunsthall Trondheim. Logo design by NODE Berlin Oslo
Welcome to an online artist talk series, in connection to the exhibition and project Attention After Technology, a series that aims to give more insight into the two-year-long project via conversations between the participating artists and project partners. This time, the artist collective CUSS Group will be in conversation with Lars Bang Larsen (Art Hub Copenhagen).
The conversation will be held in English, with a duration of 40 minutes. It will be possible for the audience to ask questions in the last 10 minutes.
Click here to join the conversation via Zoom!
The exhibition and project Attention After Technology explores the role of algorithms today, the ways in which they affect us, and how we could imagine them otherwise, through newly commissioned works by seven international artists: biarritzzz (Brazil), Vivian Caccuri (Brazil), Shu Lea Cheang (USA/Taiwan), Kyriaki Goni (Greece), CUSS Group (South Africa), Femke Herregraven (Netherlands) and Berenice Olmedo (Mexico).
CUSS Group’s activities have spanned the founding of a web television initiative, online publications, digital art, and curatorial projects in their HQ, Johannesburg. The collective responds to commercial, cultural, and technological super-hybridity through the filter of urban trends, material artifacts, and youth culture in contemporary post-post-colonial South Africa. The members of CUSS Group are Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana, Lex Trickett, and Zamani Xolo.
Lars Bang Larsen is a writer, curator and, art historian, and Head of Research & Art at Art Hub Copenhagen in Copenhagen. His research has dealt with artistic agency in the context of countercultures and other experimental settings at the limits of the art field, as an alternative way of tracing genealogies for art and exhibition histories of modernity and contemporaneity. Among other titles, his books include monographs on Charlotte Johannesson and Georgiana Houghton (both forthcoming), and the selection of essays Arte y norma (Cruce casa editora, 2016). He has (co-)curated exhibitions such as A History of Irritated Material (Raven Row, 2010), Incerteza Viva, 32. Bienal de São Paulo (2016), and Partially Swamped Institution (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2023).
The online talk series is a collaboration with Tropical Papers’ [SUNDAY BRUNCH]. Intended as an intersectional laboratory, [SUNDAY BRUNCH] is an online meeting place where we are invited to listen, observe, share and enjoy a sensitive experience through images, poetry, sound, cooking and dancing.
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Overview talks
16.11.2023 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
Stefanie Hessler (Swiss Institute) with artist Shu Lea Cheang and her project advisor Whit Pow
03.12.23 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
Lars Bang Larsen (Art Hub Copenhagen) with the artist collective CUSS Group
28.01.24 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
María Inés Rodríguez (Tropical Papers) with artist biarritzzz
29.02.24 (12.30 pm-1.10 pm EST / 6.30 pm-7.10 pm CET)
iLiana Fokianaki (State of Concept Athens) with artist Kyriaki Goni
Project Coordinator: Kunsthall Trondheim
The project is led by: Kunsthall Trondheim and Swiss Institute New York
Project Partners: Art Hub Copenhagen, Tropical Papers and State of Concept Athens
Associated Partners: The Friends of Attention, D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University), Justin Smith-Ruiu (Université de Paris), and the Swiss Institute New York
Co-funded by the European Union
Artist advisors: Pedro Victor Brandão, Delinda Collier, Kate Crawford, Flavia Dzodan, Whit Pow, Joana Souza
Project ambassador Trondheim: Gulabuddin Sukhanwar
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim is additionally supported by SpareBank 1 SMN, Arts and Culture Norway, The Fritt Ord Foundation, Mondriaan Fund and IDM Dispenser.