The ODD Gallery is pleased to present The Natural & The Manufactured 2010 , the sixth incarnation of our annual thematic exhibition and research project dedicated to the exploration of our cultural, economic and aesthetic conceptions of environment, locality and landscape.
Through a series of exhibitions, actions, writings, artist talks, lectures and concerts, the N&M 2010 offers a set of speculative propositions toward a new framework of regarding the ongoing barter between our reliance on natural, often fragile, ecological systems and inherent necessity of socialization.
Although extremely diverse in conception and design, the projects share a fascination with ideas of impermanence, translocality and temporal anachromism. Subverting our normalized, staid binaries of nature and culture, wilderness and constructed environment, or even organic and inorganic, the N&M 2010 projects suggest that our current locale and landscape--perhaps even our current moment--are perhaps best viewed as a near simultaneous overlapping of interests and interactions, rather than a regulated system of certainties and definitions. As such, the projects posit the Natural and Manufactured elements of life as non-static events, a dispursal, a constant negotiation. A placeless place, a timeless time, a zone where the instability of social reality can offer ideas for change, innovation, inspiration and resistance.
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