I knock on your skin
SET Woolwich
Conor Ackhurst, Gillies Adamson Semple, Ilona Balaga, Anthony Dickenson, Líadáin Éire, Maisie Maris, Guillermo Martinez de Velasco, Louis Blue Newby & Laila Majid, Giorgio van Meerwijk, and Camille Yvert. Performance by Rosie Broadhead, Kaivalya Brewerton & Chibuzor Adiele.
"Tragedy is in fact a small region of comedy space, which is twisted all the way through. Right now, ecological awareness presents itself as tragedy. But sooner or later, we will start to smile, which is maybe how we get to cry for real."
What is understood today as an ecology, or better, ecologies? How can they be defined; how do they help us move past disciplinary boundaries; and how do we re-negotiate interspecies coexistence accordingly? How may thinking ecologically allow us to navigate through crises?
Exploring new contact points through a variety of mediums, I knock on your skin maps relations between organisms and their respective environments from positions of interconnectedness, interrelations, and interactions. Ranging from critical to pondering references to the current socio-political shifts, the show postures its narrative threads alongside manifold layers of shared exchanges on the subject of ecology. I knock on your skin considers new ways of re-establishing our relation to crisis that might, perhaps, be playful, curious, and exploratory.
curated in collaboration with Conor Ackhurst, Nimco Hussein and Dominique Croshaw
SET Woolwich
Conor Ackhurst, Gillies Adamson Semple, Ilona Balaga, Anthony Dickenson, Líadáin Éire, Maisie Maris, Guillermo Martinez de Velasco, Louis Blue Newby & Laila Majid, Giorgio van Meerwijk, and Camille Yvert. Performance by Rosie Broadhead, Kaivalya Brewerton & Chibuzor Adiele.
"Tragedy is in fact a small region of comedy space, which is twisted all the way through. Right now, ecological awareness presents itself as tragedy. But sooner or later, we will start to smile, which is maybe how we get to cry for real."
– Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological
What is understood today as an ecology, or better, ecologies? How can they be defined; how do they help us move past disciplinary boundaries; and how do we re-negotiate interspecies coexistence accordingly? How may thinking ecologically allow us to navigate through crises?
Exploring new contact points through a variety of mediums, I knock on your skin maps relations between organisms and their respective environments from positions of interconnectedness, interrelations, and interactions. Ranging from critical to pondering references to the current socio-political shifts, the show postures its narrative threads alongside manifold layers of shared exchanges on the subject of ecology. I knock on your skin considers new ways of re-establishing our relation to crisis that might, perhaps, be playful, curious, and exploratory.
curated in collaboration with Conor Ackhurst, Nimco Hussein and Dominique Croshaw
24 March –
14 April 2022
14 April 2022
Installation View: I knock on your skin (24 March – 14 April 2022) at SET Woolwich, London. Courtesy of the curators and artists. Photography by Dominique Croshaw.
Perfect Timing At The Cicadae-Cicadinetta Spa: New Age Ecosystems For Shy Revolutionnaries (2022) by Guillermo Martinez de Velasco: I knock on your skin (24 March – 14 April 2022) at SET Woolwich, London. Courtesy of the curators and artists. Photography by Dominique Croshaw.
everything in the world woke up (2022) by Louis Blue Newby & Laila Majid. : I knock on your skin (24 March – 14 April 2022) at SET Woolwich, London. Courtesy of the curators and artists. Photography by Anthony Dickenson.
Installation View: I knock on your skin (24 March – 14 April 2022) at SET Woolwich, London. Courtesy of the curators and artists. Photography by Anthony Dickenson.
Installation View: I knock on your skin (24 March – 14 April 2022) at SET Woolwich, London. Courtesy of the curators and artists. Photography by Dominique Croshaw.