New Vernacular
"Gaia made it popular and now The Errorists are here with new vernacular" updates Lovelock’s well-known 'Gaia hypothesis' – that the living and non-living systems of earth have come to function together like a world organism. Koob-Sassen proposes that punctuating the continuum of evolution have been remarkable moments when a culture, for example a culture of cells, has elaborated to the point that it can frame the proverbial 'sky' – as the organs of a new scale of economy.
There are two elements to this exhibition.
Firstly, a collaborative Vibe-Sculpture - in the form of a poster and a performance at the private view - which evoke the spirit in which Koob-Sassen makes his proposal: "As an Errorist I can happily-in-error propose a new vernacular of three form-words with which to model culture. . ."
Secondly, three narrative formations in marble, steel, and panels. Thinking syntactically, Koob-Sassen uses marble and steel to experiment towards an ideal overall phrase or formation for the modernist materialism. He imagines the morphology of our entire cultural production - from train tracks to ideas - is like DNA: a material language which can both name reality and also transform it: "The syntax octopus of culture seeks traction in the inky darkness of reality by naming it, with tendrils of science, art, religion... As this collective heap of names and structures navigates reality, it begins to form a figure against the ground of time. The bridge formation of a culture has durability and procession forward in time. But, in trellis formation, a culture can support a new scale outwards of experience.”
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