Ivan Cheng - Casemates
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Ivan Cheng's Casemates brings together a series of performances and an interactive installation, co-commissioned by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
A casemate is a fortified chamber designed to shelter and protect what is valuable. The proximity of both museums to historical forts and their casemates serves as Cheng's starting point for questioning storage, preservation, and transformation.
The project continues the artist's research on the shifting tensions between information systems and histories, between mechanical and human forms of memory, and a sense of self fused with technology: phones, computers, cameras. The public is invited to reassess their digital archives and to deposit digital “waste” in The Reservoir, the artist’s digital bin.
In dialogue with The Reservoir, a performance titled The Fountain takes place several times in the exhibition space – a playful exchange between a public and a private computer. The data collected will feed the fifth edition of Confidences, the artist's novel series about vampires and temporal practices.
Casemates encourages reflection on what we consider important and what we keep unnecessarily, while highlighting technology's influence on memory.
Cheng playfully offers us the opportunity to resurrect our old files and give them new presence.
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Curator: Léon Kruijswijk, with assistance from Nicole Wittmann
Supported by the Mondriaan Fund and with material support from Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Co-produced by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Project as part of Perform Inform Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums (PIT), co-funded by the European Union.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
National Art & History Museum
Luxembourg
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