Paul Soulellis, NEW INC member and creator of the 'Printed Web' discusses the art and curation of Hypersalon with Philippe Riss, director of XPO and Kelani Nichole, director of TRANSFER
The Infrathin Salon
"Far from being opposites across an unbridgeable chasm, image and world are in many cases just versions of each other. They are not equivalents however, but deficient, excessive, and uneven in relation to each other. And the gap between them gives way to speculation and intense anxiety.”
(Hito Steyerl, "Too Much World, Is the Internet Dead?")
What kind of condition is this gap between image and world? How do we characterize the space of the network, where same is same but different? Duchamp wrote that the infrathin could not be explained but may be described, like the warmth of a seat after someone gets up. So let’s gather around this place that is felt, but not visible, to discuss the idea of indifferent difference.
We’ll pry open this condition between materiality, printed page and flow, and look for slippery traces of the network while holding the material thingness of its output in our hands. Like Schroedinger’s cat, the Infrathin Salon is either a thought experiment or a quantum dream, where artists’ works vibrate on the network, both hidden and exposed, dead and alive. The Infrathin Salon is a discussion about this hybrid condition, the space of circulation.
Welcome from the directors and short introduction to the program will be shared with gallerists and industry folks in town early for production of events.
