Adaptations / Craig Buckley

Adaptations examines the complex, sometimes contradictory relationships between new forms of independence and infrastructures rooted in existing social relations. While architecture and planning have often been privileged as sites for utopian projection, the potential of small scale adaptations has remained largely overlooked. The initiatives in this exhibition use such small-scale adaptations to re-function existing features of the city, a thrust that seeks to avoid the problems of large-scale design. A mixture of emerging and established artist/architects, Adaptations brings together first-hand investigations, practical projects and hypothetical models, all of which bring to light the crucial status of infrastructure as a site of technological and social transformation.

KünstlerInnen und Künstlerkollektive: Kim Adams (Toronto), Arnait Video Collective (Igloolik, Canada), Gardar Eide Einarsson (Berlin), Nils Norman (London), Ocean Earth (New York), Michael Rakowitz (New York), Raqs Media Collective (Delhi), Stealth Group (Rotterdam/Belgrade), Oscar Tuazon und Richard Fischbeck (New York)

Adaptations
Craig Buckley, independent curator, New York

mit Kim Adams, Arnait Video Collective, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Nils Norman , Ocean Earth, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Stealth Group , Oscar Tuazon, Richard Fischbeck