Archives at NCBS | bangaloREsidency Presentation
https://archives.ncbs.res.in/202411_IP

Sticky Networks
Iz Paehr
Artist in Residence, Archives at NCBS

Friday November 22, 2024, 5.30 to 7.00 p.m.
Refreshments before the event at 5.00pm

Southern Laboratories at NCBS, Ground Floor
Free and open to the public
Campus entry: Sign in at security office at main NCBS gate, and proceed to venue.

Access info: Entering from NCBS main gate leads to a building with a sloped ramp. The exhibition space can be reached without using steps. Accessible bathrooms are available.

About the exhibition:
Iz Paehr’s exhibition at the end of their bangaloREsidency@The Archives at NCBS interweaves stories about networks. The works on display follow internet infrastructures, plants, fungi and telegrams through the built world, soils, trees and skies.

During their time in Bangalore, Iz has been researching and complicating/compiling stories of technological development as supposedly linear and frictionless. Following and reaching back into (her-hir-his)stories of telegraphy as a technology that deepened colonial control, they have searched for traces, patterns, breaks and continuities in network structures at the Archives and in the city.

About Iz Paehr:
Iz Paehr works with and on structures of virtuality. Iz often collaborates on projects, they design, programme and write along questions of access, materiality and play.

One of Iz’s focus areas is metaphors and materials of networks. There are gaps between imaginations and material realities of the internet: For example, the imagery of the “cloud” is common, whereas 99% of bits are transferred via submarine cables that have landing stations predominantly situated above the equator. The latter opens questions about ownership, power and access.

For more: https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/sta/ban/ueb/bar/izp.html

About bangaloREsidency:
This event is part of the bangaloREsidency programme, a long-term collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Bangalore and various cultural spaces and partners in Bangalore, with a view to offering German aspirants a space conducive to creative output and the opportunity to interact with Indian collaborators.