"The ICP Triennial, Roy Arden, Huma Bhabha, Nayland Blake, A.K. Burns, Aleksandra Domanović, Nir Evron, San Falls, Lucas Foglia, Jim Goldberg, Mishika Henner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliott Hundley, Oliver Laric, Andrea Longacre-White, Gideon Mendel, Luis Moilna-Pantin, Rabih Mroué, Wangechi Mutu, Sohei Nishino, Lisa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Nica Ross, Michael Schmelling, Hito Steyerl, Mikhael Subotzky/Patrick Waterhouse, Shimpei Takeda"--Page [4] of cover. The 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order, focuses on artworks created in our current moment of widespread economic, social, and political instability. The exhibition will include 28 international artists who employ photography, film, video, and interactive media. Many of their works reflect the growing importance of new paradigms associated with digital image making and network culture. A Different Kind of Order is organized by Kristen Lubben, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers, and Joanna Lehan. A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial is a global survey of contemporary photography and video, May 17 to September 8, 2013 at the International Center of Photography.
Summary:
The exhibition sketches the contours of the new visual and social territory in which photography finds itself today. A number of key themes serve as guidelines that link the works in the exhibition: (i) Artist as aggregator identifies one of the main aesthetic offshoots of the digital image environment: the present-day descendants of the "image scavengers" of the 1980s who are now busy plundering and reorganizing anizing found, online photographs into highly personal, web-based archives. (ii) Theresurgence of collage is evident in works that combine photographic fragments, digital images, paint, three-dimensional objects, and audio and video material to blast open and reconfigure the space of the photograph in unprecedented ways. (iii) At a time when all manner of power structures are being called into question, mapping has become a renewed subject of artistic inquiry - part of a wider fascination with the power of ordering systems that has emerged in response to the dematerialized disorder of the Internets environment (iv) The Internets dissolution of geographic distance has spurred the development of new forms of community, allowing artists to explore new forms of connection, collaboration, and multiple authorship that do not depend on physical proximity.
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