Art in the Age of Immersion
Dimecres 22 novembre 2023, 11:15 am — 12:30 pm
— Lawrence Lek: Layering Virtual and Physical Worlds
- Speakers
- Lawrence Lek i Carly Whitefield
- Espais
- Almanac Barcelona
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Lawrence Lek (Artist) and Carly Whitefield (Senior Curator at LAS Art Foundation Berlin) in conversation.
Artist Lawrence Lek crafts speculative scenarios that take the form of CGI films, video games, installations and soundtracks set within a Sinofuturist universe. As part of the LOOP fair, he is presenting the video installation Black Cloud Highway (2023), which forms part of a larger series of works exploring the integration of AI into urban life. In this talk, Lek sits down with curator Carly Whitefield to discuss his approach to worldbuilding in game engines, architectural simulation, machinic perspectives, virtual cinematography, and his layering of the virtual and physical in the context of installation.
Lawrence Lek
1982
Lawrence Lek va estudiar al Trinity College de la Universitat de Cambridge, l’Architectural Association de Londres i The Cooper Union de Nova York, i recentment ha obtingut un doctorat al Royal College of Art de Londres. Entre les seves exposicions individuals més recents, hi figuren: Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins), QUAD, Derby (2022); Post-Sinofuturism, ZiWU the Bund, Shanghai (2022). Entre les seves exposicions col·lectives, biennals i festivals de cine més recents, hi figuren: 5ª Biennal de Kochi-Muziris, Kochi (2022); Leeum Museum of Art, Seül (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2022); donaufestival, Krems (2021); IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020 i 2018); 17ª Biennal d’Arquitectura de Venècia, Venècia (2021); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco (2020). Lek ha estat guardonat amb el Jerwood/FVU Award 2017 i el Dazed Emerging Artist Award 2015. El 2021 va rebre el Gran Premi del 4º VH Award i la beca LACMA 2021 Art + Technology Lab.
Carly Whitefield
Carly Whitefield is Senior Curator at LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, where she curated Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Pollinator Pathmaker LAS Edition (2023–2026), Marianna Simnett: GORGON (2023), and Lawrence Lek: NOX (2023–2024). Formerly, she was Assistant Curator, International Art, at Tate Modern, where she contributed to Anicka Yi’s Hyundai Commission for Turbine Hall, In Love With the World (2021–2022), Dóra Maurer (2019–2021), and BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days, Six Nights (2017). She also co-curated the Tate Film cinema, installation and performance programmes, realising interdisciplinary projects such as Enmeshed (2022), Nástio Mosquito: No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito’s.Ass.About.Us (2020), Pan Daijing: Tissues (2019), Nkisi: The Spiral (2019), Tony Cokes: Sound Systems (2019) and Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Walled Unwalled (2018), among others.
Whitefield previously worked as Editorial and Research Associate for Oslo Pilot, and has given lectures for MA programmes at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, London College of Communication and University of Reading. She received a degree in Cultural Studies at McGill University, Montréal, before completing her Master of Research in Art: Moving Image at Central Saint Martins, London.
