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LIGHTHOUSE PRESENT: JAMES BRIDLE & MARIELE NEUDECKER
Lighthouse are working with two artists: Mariele Neudecker on an exhibition at Lighthouse, and James Bridle, who we've commissioned to carry out an outdoor drawing of a military drone. Both artists reveal the controversial weapons of war our governments would rather we did not see.
Under the Shadow of the Drone by James Bridle
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/james-bridle-under-the-shadow-of-the-drone
4 - 26 May
A military drone aircraft has made an eerie incursion into the daily lives of Brighton residents
The unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, has become one of the most potent weapons of modern war. The British airforce have just confirmed they are now flying armed Reaper drones from the UK on missions to Afghanistan. James Bridle's life-size depiction of a Reaper drone on Brighton's seafront, make these machines visible on our own streets.
Bridle's latest endeavor is focuses on one of the more sinister components of his much talked about New Aesthetic research project, which describes the ways digital has erupted into the physical world. For Bridle, drones are "avatars of the network, weapons which reveals aspects of our contemporary technologies as they are used both socially and politically."
By physically manifesting the drone onto our streets, Bridle enacts a central tenets of the New Aesthetic, whilst also raising social awareness about the use of drones in military situations.
Running alongside this project is a new exhibition at Lighthouse by German contemporary artist, Mariele Neudecker.
The Air Itself Is One Vast Library by Mariele Neudecker
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/mariele-neudecker-the-air-itself-is-one-vast-library
4 May - 1 June 2013
This exhibition of startling images makes military technologies that are intended to be camouflaged, and out of view, starkly visible. Weapons that are otherwise abstract and monstrous, become tactile and present. She shows us how technology can encode and encrypt actions that are intended to be covert, but artistic strategies combined with that same technology, are able to unscramble and reveal.
Both The Air Itself is One Vast Library and Under the Shadow of the Drone investigate how technology can obfuscate and obscure acts of war. They make visible the hidden infrastructures and strategies used by the military, as a way of reminding us of our social and moral responsibility in relation to war. These projects continue Lighthouse's curatorial investigations into the invisible technological frameworks that make up our world.
For more details about the projects, locations, and opening times, please go to:
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/lighthouse-at-brighton-festival
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Honor Harger
Artistic Director
Lighthouse
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
Address: 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ, UK
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