0s+1s Collective
The Legacy Complex, Gotland Art Museum, Visby, Sweden, 2017.
The Legacy Complex, La Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), Havana, Cuba, 2017.
The Legacy Complex was a multi-disciplinary research project and exhibition bringing together work by the Swedish-British art cooperative 0s+1s Collective. The exhibitions in Gotland Art Museum, Sweden and La Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Cuba showed newly produced works in the form of video, audio, installation, collage and performance. The works were the result of more than a year's investigation involving overlapping military, cinematic, social and personal stories from a feminist perspective. Central to the exhibition were the artists' common interests in technology, the internet, cyberfeminism, and the patriarchal, technological and commercial impact of the Cold War (both from a historical perspective and how the effects continue to reverberate today).
The artists worked together to organise, view, research, make and share artworks as a democratic and supportive collective. One example of this is a video bank uploaded with the artist’s project footage and shared amongst the group. Materially this is visible in the different artist’s videos in the exhibition through fragments of similar footage appearing and being edited into different contexts. Collective ways of working are also shown both through a dual-artist collaborative video project and (less directly) in projects where members of the group are named within videos as contributors - as actors, or as camera and sound people.
Images from The Legacy Complex, Gotland Art Museum, Visby, Sweden, 2017.
Image: Choterina freer, Unbreathed Air (2017), installation view.
Image: Choterina freer, Unbreathed Air (2017), installation view.
Image: Anna Kinbom Cyborg’s Music Video and Cyberfeminism is a Song EP (2017), installation view.
Image: Anna Kinbom installation view Cyborg’s Music Video (2017) and Song Lyrics (2017), installation view.
Image: Anna Kinbom, Song Lyrics with performance (2017).
Image: Rut Karin Zettergren, Self-Surveillance System for Dancehall Queens (2017), installation view.
Image: Rut Karin Zettergren, Self-Surveillance System for Dancehall Queens (2017), performance.
Image: Rut Karin Zettergren and Sonia Hedstrand, Surveilling the Surveillers (2017), installation view.
Image: Surveilling the Surveillers (2017), installation detail.
Image: Surveilling the Surveillers (2017), installation detail.
Image: 0s+1s Collective, Research Room (2017), installation view.
Image: 0s+1s Collective, Research Room (2017), installation view.
With thanks to:
La Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC)
Gotland Art Museum
Kulturbryggan
IASPIS
The Nordic Art Association (NKF)
Baltic Art Center (BAC)
The Bergman Estates Fårö
Film på Gotland
Choterina Freer