Chinatown, New York
Group Exhibition
How Shall We Dress for the Occasion?
ArtspaceChulayarnnon Siriphol Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton Pınar Yoldaş Curated by Ulya Soley, mentored by Mari Spirito as part of the Protocinema Emerging Curator Series "Acceleration is accelerating. We are faster, stronger, better. We are digital. We are artificial. We are intelligent. We don’t have enough space but we have enough experience. We are connected, we are loud, we are confident. We have all the info we need. We have time. We manipulate time. We know the past, we know the future. We are the future, but somehow, we can’t even predict the weather. If the world has become wretched and damaged, if humanity is futile, “how shall we dress for the occasion?” [1] This exhibition, featuring artists Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton and Pınar Yoldaş, considers our obsession with future scenarios and how we try to make sense of personal mortality, technological progress and environmental collapse, simultaneously. Are we experiencing the “end of the future” [2] or the “end of history” [3]? How do we fight the accelerated passage of time? Why do we take measures to undo the effects of time? How does it feel to worry not only about our personal time but how much time the generations to come will have on earth? How do we think about the relationship between value and time, when there is an expiration date to humanity’s existence on earth? How shall we dress for the occasion? invites the audience to contemplate our multiple, contradictory experiences of time." - Ulya Soley 1 - Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot (London: Windmill Books, 2016), 26. 2 - James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (London: Verso, 2018). 3 - Paolo Virno, Déjà Vu and the End of History (London: Verso, 2015). Partial support for Deniz Tortum was provided by SAHA Association, Istanbul, Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey.