Exhibition

Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano, 2007

Using moving links between different places, technologies and layers and clusters of knowledge A Constructed World work to make a place for what is missing, forgotten or lost.

As the shared unifying notions of being together have dissolved ACW have increasingly looked towards absence as a binding space. Just as music, love, concern, hospitality, cooking and conversation are important means of aligning ourselves with others, by documenting loss other social potentials are made to exist.
 
In recent times economic forces have incorporated absence, promoting weight loss products after excessive consumption or ecological renewal after abuse of the habitat. Loss and what-is-missing have become dubious and certain products. Absence begins to represent economic exchange as both the major way we recognise ourselves and its incapacity to lead us to do so.
 
ACW’s works over the last years have continued to examine different means of absence: Explaining contemporary art to live eels, exploring the unmapped life cycle of eels through aquatic environments and invitations to guest speakers; Suicide Shrine, an installation that collects contributions; pictures, texts, notes and songs noting the suicide of loved ones and luminaries; Atheisme Mats, atmospheric room installations and the philosophies of atheism; Help Yourself works about masturbation, subjects of desire and absent objects.

The ambulant research of ACW is like both an exhibition and an archive in motion in that it constantly forces us to make decisions about what we are willing to keep and lose.