Unruly City 2016
running time: 30 minutes 35 seconds
Unruly City premieres segments from a new 0rphan Drift media project, also titled Unruly City, alongside selections of related work by 0D collaborators Ranu Mukherjee and Mer Maggie Roberts. Unruly City is built around Hexagram 49 of the I-Ching, presented to the artists during a reading intended to guide this project. It charts a course through a shifting urban imaginary emerging in the shadow of climate change and bio-capital, creating an amalgamation of potential spaces, materialities and creaturely life.
The first segments of this project bring together densely layered collaged video and animation in a collaborative work by the artists. Treating the hexagram reading as a partial score, these clips revolve around the description of a ritual for the new year: “At new year, dances when the exorcists, dressed in bearskins and wearing bear masks with 4 golden metal eyes would drive out the old year animals pushing them over the edge of the world into renewal and change. Humans also wore bear masks and dressed as other genders. Old things were destroyed. Everything moves into a liminal state, the fertile chaos called Change.” Unruly City is in some way generating a space in which this fertile chaos manifests. 0rphan Drift’s 49, installed in the window at Dold Projects, features elements of Hexagram 49 printed on silk. It marks and defines the space of the exhibition both for entering viewers and passersby.
0rphan Drift Unruly City Press Release
Video Stills
Documentation Pictures
UNRULY CITY – List of Works
Segments from Unruly City
HD Video
running time: 10:00 loop
2016
49
inkjet print on Crepe de Chine
381x 218 cm. (150×86 inches)
2016
Works on paper:
DogOwl1
Ranu Mukherjee
ink and pigment on paper
101x 71 cm (40×28 inches)
2016
DogOwl2
Ranu Mukherjee
ink and pigment on paper
101x 71 cm (40×28 inches)
2016
Masked Bear
Ranu Mukherjee
ink, pigment and inkjet print on paper
42x 29cm. (16.5 x11.5 inches)
2016
Running Bear
Ranu Mukherjee
ink and pigment on paper
42 x 56 cm ( 16.5×22 inches)
2016
Pixel Fire
Ranu Mukherjee
ink, pigment and inkjet print on paper
70x70cm (27.5×27.5 inches)
2016
Melting Sky
Mer Maggie Roberts
ink, watercolour and gold pigment on paper
50x73cm
2016
Portent 1.0
Mer Maggie Roberts
collage on Venetian marbled paper
2016
Synthetic Experiment
Mer Maggie Roberts
collage on paper
41x63cm.
2016
Flying Bears and Portal
Mer Maggie Roberts
collage, laser cut vellum, glitter and fabric on Venetian marbled paper
50×70.5cm
2016
Exorcists and Cross Dressers
Mer Maggie Roberts
collage on paper
50x73cm
2016
The Time Of Skinning
Mer Maggie Roberts
Collage, ink, pigment, handmade paper on shiny metallic blue paper
51x65cm
2016
Moonlit Tourists and Fur Jacket Projection
Mer Maggie Roberts
Monotype. oil paint and silver pigment on paper
45x65cm
2016
Time Travelling Bears
Mer Maggie Roberts
Monotype. oil paint, irridescent and flourescent pigments on paper
45x65cm
2016
Camo Bodies, Leopard and Hoodies
Mer Maggie Roberts
Monotype. oil paint, irridescent and flourescent pigments on paper
45x65cm
2016
Holes and Portals
Mer Maggie Roberts
Monotype. oil paint, irridescent and flourescent pigments on paper
45x65cm
2016
Travellers (Fire Dancers)
Mer Maggie Roberts
Monotype. oil paint, irridescent and flourescent pigments on paper
45x65cm
2016
Video Works in back space:
Chimeric (dogowl living on the edge of free trade zone)
Ranu Mukherjee
Hybrid film (dogowl, early morning sun, haze, empty billboard stand, noise, tiara, Bombay/Mumbai, Singapore, San Francisco, London, earrings, hairclips, silk fragments, cell phone towers, magazine clippings, sparkle swatches, rainbow, Lonavala, monkeys, Bandshell, dusk)
4:54:08 loop
HD animation
2015
Chimeric (dogowl living on the edge of free trade zone) 2016
running time: 4 minutes 55 seconds