IN APRIL 2025
Christophe De Rohan Chabot
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See Also: IMP MINUS
A painted picture orbiting the earth in a Blue Origin capsule, its body gone, its onetime support. A novel written from the point of view of the painting told in the 3rd person close up. An object that has been surgically divorced and lifted out of that support that had acheived terminal stasis, we will learn — a painting that had been suffering from information and had agreed to be used in another theoretical nullification — though it is perhaps of hardly more than passing concern in a tale where it coexists in a capsule with green growing things, under light. An energy experiment that evolves quite predictably, and not.
An object hooked up to instruments and nutrients in a space capsule, monitoring its physiological self, transmitting information along the Concentration Loop to artists and dealers on Earth, whom it knows only by sound as the Good Voices or the Acrid Voices. When there is a question it is answered in secret. Groping for images, historical memory, links, affects, a grasp of what is happening to it, the painting, this stunned thing, begins to remember its assigned functions. It becomes more and less than IMP, a NASA acronym for Interplanetary Monitoring Painting. It is Imp Minus. Awakening, always awake, growing or collapsing, we learn, not only as it learns, relearns and forgets words, images and itself, fragments of tautologies from its terrestrial context and other data, rich and fascinating, but generating a strange new support, a body. When it develops an autonomous intellect, vision and affective life and cuts itself off from ground control in the unraveling drama of this growth, what can be its fate in collaboration with the sun and still more than our star or the depiction of our star, the smooth motion and stasis of the painting of a sunset?
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Archive
Exhibition 01: The Kinetic Mugger
Exhibition 02: Philip Seibel and Mai Braun
Exhibition 03: Michael Corris
Exhibition 04: Crit CHAN