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- Curated by
- Serafín Álvarez and Martina Millà
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In 1987, the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss presented their film Der Lauf der Dinge, known internationally as The Way Things Go. The film shows the chain reaction of a long sequence of objects and substances that activate and connect with each other, as if they were predetermined by a continuous cause-and-effect relationship. The sequence, appearing as arbitrary and chaotic, is meticulously choreographed.
The 1980s were also the decade when Daniel Jacoby & Yu Araki, Serafín Álvarez and Cécile B. Evans were born. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Swiss duo's film, these artists have used the piece as a basis for new productions.
The Way Things Do offers a perspective from which the artists explore the notion of the object as an independent, complex, inexhaustible reality. Their works reveal the background behind a traditional Japanese sport that is now only practiced on a single track in the world; they examine the relationships that fans develop with consumer objects from the realms of fiction, and they build a narrative in which humans, data, machines and artificial intelligence work together.
The exhibition ends with a screening of the original film by Fischli and Weiss.
With the collaboration of Hangar (Centre de producció i recerca d'arts visuals), BAR project and Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
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The Way Things Do publication
Presentation of the publication
20 July at 7 pm
Presentation by the curators, followed by a concert by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros