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RICARDO DOMINGUEZ + INFINITY STRUCTURES: PARADOXICAL SPACES
DIANE LUDIN 21 MAY 2015
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY
OS FERMENTATION WORKSHOP BY ECOARTTECH
Robert Gero’s work—both built and
10 MAY 2015 written—is grounded in the practical
BROAD ART CENTER, RM 5240 and theoretical intersection of art
practice, philosophy and social-
The OS Fermentation Workshop (OSFW) architectural systems.
was part of artist duo Leila Nadir
and Cary Peppermint’s Edible Ecologies His recent research as an artist has
project—a series of “social sculptures” led him to speculate on the existence
that worked collaboratively with of certain unique structures—infinity
local communities (human, bacterial structures—in which there is a stable
and ecological). Taking place thus exterior and an infinitely expanding
far at community gardens, academic interior. A seemingly impossible
institutions and public spaces, the structure, whose internal dimensions
OS Fermentation workshop involved exceed its external ones. These
participants in a process of reviving structures are quantitative additions in
the ancient practice of fermentation as space at the same time their movement
an alternative to industrial methods of expresses qualitative change. They both
food preservation such as refrigeration conceptually and materially transform
and pasteurization. It functioned static space into dynamic space by
simultaneously as a slow-cooking class, weaving superfluity, the void and solid
a community-building ritual and a together in an intimate dance.
conceptual art experiment in which both
wild bacteria and food democracy are This project was an empirical one, to
the core concepts. The tangible outcome actually generate infinity structures
for participants was jars of fermented and to ground them in the math and
veggies, which the artists envision as philosophy of the infinite to create
an unfinished and interactive artwork. an installation of these paradoxical
structures. This exhibition included
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint video by AME (Benjamin Lein and Kevin
(collectively called EcoArtTech) are Mitchell) and a soundscape by Randy
a hybrid artist-scholar team whose Greif.
environmental art projects take the form
of architectural interventions and urban
wilderness tours, net art and public
performances, scholarly articles and
poetic essays. This workshop focused
on positioning art as an urgent and
critical social intervention operating
between utility and imagination.
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