The alternative pop-up exhibition room Galleri Anti is back, this time under the title “Plastic”. It will be an exhibition of underground and upcoming artists, working in many different fields of art, music and performance, for an evening of anti-institutional fun and exploration.
As an emerging plastic-species, we’re not only enmeshed in our waste, our waste is also enmeshed in us. As so, both living and nonliving bodies point to the very plasticity of the category “species” in itself. Breaking with the dichotomy of nature/culture, our plastic waste now stands as both a signifier of an ecological condition, and the materialization of that condition. Plastic is therefore, in this understanding, not only a material, but also a phenomenon that needs investigation.
As a petroleum-based material, plastic is the medium by which oil capital becomes visible as a cultural agent - capitalism itself becomes plastic - and so we depend on it whilst simultaneously drowning in it. The question of what is “real” and what is not then becomes obsolete, and so enables us to break down old dogmas and truths about life as we know it, whilst accepting new and different experiences of our shared reality.
Looking at the diversity in the topologies of plastics, it can be transformative, static, everlasting, degradable, liquid and solid. And we must ask, where does the plastisphere stop and where does it begin? How does this affect the human and ecological condition? Can these even be separated?
Galleri Anti believes that art is a way to approach this investigation - and spark reflection in the viewers - whether the artist has used the material itself or the phenomenon as inspiration in their practice.
The non-profit democratic association of Galleri Anti is driven by volunteers with a love for art, music and anti-institutional change. At all times they work with a safer space policy that is there to insure a room of learning and development free from prejudice and discrimination.
Covid-19: Be aware that all guests must have a corona pass in order to attend the event.
A special thanks to Østerbro Lokaludvalg for making the event possible.