*Hey, I'd go, even if it's nine months away.
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The Dread exhibition investigates the acceleration of fear as a collateral of innovation. It will open at De Hallen Haarlem in September 2013. The exhibition is curated by Juha van 't Zelfde.
About
“Dread is the dizziness of freedom.” Søren Kierkegaard
" “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.” Paul Virilio
"As the 21st century increases speed through the ubiquitous distribution of a global communication network and the continuous acceleration of the technologies that shape it, time and space are synchronized at the mooresian speed of progress.
"As our opportunities grow, so do our threats. We are living in an age where catastrophe can happen faster, stronger, harder, better. A catastrophe we are creating ourselves.
"Today, unmanned aerial vehicles can kill from afar, algorithms can erase billions in a millionth of a second, and social networks can compromise the integrity of civilians and governments at the same time.
"These possibilities of the new, and the new catastrophes that are embedded in them, can induce an overwhelming sense of dread. Danish existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard describes dread as the “alarming possibility of being able”. British author of weird fiction China Miéville calls it “a pre-emptive fear”. And French urbanist and philospher Paul Virilio says “fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape.”
"Dread is the terror that accompanies the moment you know something harmful can happen to you in the future."
The Dread exhibition will put a searchlight on this environment of fear, and will bring together works of art that deal with the concept of dread.
