In today’s
world of always-on media, the planet’s issues often take a back seat to clickbait. In part, this is due to the enormity of
these topics. The issues are what philosopher Timothy Morton calls hyperobjects - objects or events whose dimensions
in space and time are massive in relation to a human life. Their effects may be experienced even if they cannot be necessarily
touched.
In this exhibition, Neil Mendoza uses kinetic art to explore these issues. He aims
to steer around the desensitization experienced when bombarded with information about these topics by using humor, motion
and found objects as a backdoor into people’s psyches. Just as Dada was a reaction to the chaos and violence of WW1, Mendoza’s
work uses absurdity as a reaction to the seemingly unalterable path of growing consumption that society is following at the
expense of a sustainable future.
Neil Mendoza’s work combines sculpture, electronics and software
to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. He has exhibited work f.e. at
Oi futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, Barbican Centre, London and talked at conferences around the world, taught classes on art and technology
at UCLA and Stanford and co-founded the art collective
is this good?.
Curation: Ruth Schnell and Tommy
Schneider
Opening: 24.11.2022, 19:00
Duration: 25.11.2022 – 26.01.2023
Opening hours: 10:00 – 20:00
Venue: Schauraum Angewandte - quartier 21 im MQ, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Vienna
https://neilmendoza.comhttps://digitalekunst.ac.at
