{"title":"The Otolith Group","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/otolithgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtist's website\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Otolith Group have researched and produced densely textured moving images works, installations, photographs, murals and performances, which frequently reference the trajectories of the non-aligned, and the transnational legacies of the global majority and it's diasporas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir works have been commissioned and presented by museums, galleries, biennials, and foundations worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent monographic exhibitions include: MASCON A Massive Concentration of Black Experiential Energy and MASCON A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy across Chicago as part of Project A Black Planet at the ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO and the NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM, at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy (2024); Secession in Vienna (2022); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (2022).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs curators and theorists The Otolith Collective is an NPO and have engaged in the conception, creation and convening of platforms that make public ongoing research that informs their practice at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout this practice runs a precoccupation with shifting the decolonial form of the essayistic towards an untimely institution, drawn from thinking temporality as unbound by the political formations that determine the notion of the contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this aesthetico-political process emerges a practice of platforming, a practice that draws attention to the urgency of the present in all of its provincial, provisional, prospective and planetary dimensions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the urgency of the Now that animates and has animated the Collective’s presentation of the work of Bahar Noorizadeh, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Anand Patwardhan, Etel Adnan, Fred Moten, Eyal Sivan, Black Audio Film Collective, Peter Watkins, Sue Clayton, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, Silvia Maglioni \u0026amp; Graeme Thomson, Lamia Joreige, Naeem Mohaiemen, Chimurenga Library, Emma Wolukau-Wanamba, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Lungiswa Gqunta, Tony Cokes, Rania Stephan, Ayo Akingbade and Rehana Zaman to name but a few, throughout and beyond the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat unites the Collective’s practice of platforming is the necessity to bring viewers face to face with the force of images and the unnameability of sounds so as to create the conditions for intervention in the colonised times and racialised spaces of our catastrophic present.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/twelve-books.com\/collections\/the-otolith-group.oembed","provider":"twelvebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}