The exhibition Sisterhood: Streaming Voices Unifying Energies, at Haus N Athen, consists of works by female and female identifying artists who use technological and scientific tools to originate new emotional meanings.
The show includes Liliane Lijn’s digital film Caution Matter (2012), a collaborative project between Liliane Lijn and Jamie Allen and an outcome of Lijn’s residency at Culture Lab in Newcastle (2010-2012).
Caution Matter is an immersive moving image presentation created from both artists’ visits to diverse factories both in London and in the vicinity of Newcastle and is composed of variable single and multi-screen film installations that change depending on the location at which they are exhibited.
“Making my work in small, often Dickensian, engineering factories in the early 1970’s, I became interested in the neglected creative potential of these niches of industry. In Ealing and nearby Acton, I first saw the sinuous forms of cooling towers emerging from the dull brick rows of houses. They appeared to float above the high street like alien presences, unrelated to the people living there.
I began to seriously consider that perhaps the feminine archetype, whose repression began with the mythic descent of Inanna to the Underworld, now inhabited the labyrinthine worlds of our society’s military industrial complex. If she was to be found there, it was exactly the area that I most wanted to explore.
Many, if not all, the developments in science and technology are due in great measure to liberal funding from the military. Industry, however, and, in particular, the energy industries, transforms resources and generates the profusion of product that fuels our society. These areas of research and production are usually closed to the public eye. In a way, they are our underworld.”
– Liliane Lijn
The other artists included in the exhibition are Sarah Abu Abdallah, Petra Cortright, Despoina Damaskou, Zoe Giabouldaki, Tamara Henderson, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Bahar Noorizadeh, Nausika Pastra, Lena Platonos with Margarita Ovadia, Paola Revenioti, Vanessa Safavi, Georgia Sagri, Sofia Stevi, Chrysanne Stathacos, Susan Silas, Priscilla Tea, Amalia Vekri, and Pegy Zali.
The film Caution Matter is available to view here.
7 February – 7 March 2020
More details about the exhibition here.
Haus N Athen
Kairi 6
2nd floor
Monastiraki
Athens 105 51
Greece
Open Friday to Saturday, 4pm to 8pm
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