Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution
ORGANIZED BY ADRIAN SLIVA AND HILARY WIESE
SEPTEMBER 10TH - OCTOBER 15TH, 2021
The Off-Modern Revolution opens modernity to the “what ifs” of monolithic philosophical, economic and technological narratives. It ventures into untold past, present, and future histories to question Western cultural supremacy and recover truths pushed to the margins in a series of Glitches that fire like evolutionary synapses. They excavate Western notions of progress to reveal fractured relationships with the planetary systems that sustain us and work to reconnect the physical body to nature.
Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution, organized by Adrian Sliva and Hilary Wiese, assesses the reverberating cultural shifts of the Glitches of the Off-Modern Revolution in a collaborative installation composed of work that spans a wide range of production skills and techniques. The exhibition engages architecture, photography, and emerging digital processes to interrogate the deterministic narrative of Western modernity by centering deep time, entropy, estrangement, and reflection.
Generator Grant programming is presented with generous support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
Installation Images
Photos: Debra S. Kaplan
From the Artists
The Off-Modern Revolution was a period of time in which the Western ideas of the relationship between the body and architecture began to shift. Prior to the Revolution, the body was thought of as an individual entity; unconnected and medicalized. As time progressed, humankind’s infatuation with physical perfection could be seen in the increased popularity of medical correction and the rapid standardization of architectural “bodies”. The Off-Modern Revolution did not occur within a specific timeframe; it should instead be thought of as an ongoing series of processes (Glitches) that unveil layers of nostalgia and reveal connections with conflicting histories of the romantic past, present, and future.
Generations of early human beings maintained an instinctual connection with the natural world. Over time, this connection has become weaker and weaker until the inevitable fracture. The Glitches of the Off-Modern Revolution fire like evolutionary synapses; attempting to reconnect our physical forms to nature. The cultural shifts influenced by these glitches are often small at first, but their reverberations can be felt throughout art, architecture, and all methods of human representation.
Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution is a collaborative effort between Adrian Sliva and Hilary Wiese - Architects / Artists curious about the untapped potential of hidden / overlooked histories. Currently, their work seeks to untangle the complicated narratives of the body -- the body as medical vs the body as nature-- and explore the anatomical alchemy that has served as a blueprint for architect’s fetishization with order and proportion, clock-like images comparing bodies to buildings (the idealized, healthy, upright patriarchal body of so-called perfection and cleanliness).