Thin Air was a large scale installation that took place in London between March 16th and June 4th 2023, presented by That Right There in collaboration with Broadwick Live.
Showcasing works that expressed the contemporary dialogue between art & technology, the show also played with the codes of the music industry, and is thus a natural extension of the language of club culture.
Most of the works could be seen as light, sound and media hybrids, engaging with spaces at times in awe-inspiring scale, encouraging exploration, contemplation and shifting of perspectives.
The show received about sixty thousand visitors over the course of its run, and presented works from seven international artists, all leaders in the field of New Media and installation art.
An abridged version of the curatorial statement :
We often think of light as that which reveals, ‘brings to light’, ‘illuminates’, even ‘enlightens’ what might otherwise go unseen. But at the core of light’s reality is a paradox: light is, in itself, impossible to see.
The tension between the visible and the invisible evokes the human desire to cast light on what we don’t know, can’t see or can’t control: knowledge is often represented as a form of illumination, ignorance
as darkness. Using light, time, space and computation as a core material, the artists in Thin Air create immaterial architectures, impossible images and intangible sculptures. When our senses are heightened
and the invisible becomes material, we can better challenge the assumptions of our technological environment and how we build ourselves within it.
Some press quotes
“Thin Air is a seminal exhibition that highlights potential future directions of multidisciplinary art”
“Thin Air is a seminal exhibition that highlights potential future directions of multidisciplinary art”
Aesthetica Magazine
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“Art’s technology-driven future”
SHOWStudio
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“This isn’t just an exhibition of art concepts, but also a realisation of what technology can do when given such a large-scale space to work with”
The Culture Whisperer
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“A breath of fresh air”
BBC Radio
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“Envelops your senses in a way that you may have never experienced before”
The Nudge
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“A truly ambitious and intense experience that's about as big and bombastic as immersive art gets. Prepare to be dazzled.”
Londonist
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“Groundbreaking exhibition of experiments in art and technology”
London Post
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“Mimicking the sensory cacophony of a nightclub in motion”
Metal Magazine
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“A must see”