FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART PRAGUE, PRAGUE (CZ)
artists: Matěj Al-Ali, Keren Benbenisty, Tyler Coburn, David Court, Sean Fader, Kara Hearn, Zebadiah Keneally, Alena Kotzmannová, Tomáš Moravec, Freya Powell, Markéta Othová, Elisabeth Smolarz, Magda Stanová, Tomáš Svoboda, Dannielle Tegeder, Jiří Thýn
curators: Tereza Jindrová, Meghana Karnik and Michelle Levy
in collaboration with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
Apparatus 2.0: The Unreliable Library is an exhibition resulting
from a collaboration between artists and organizers from Prague and New
York City. Taking place in the reconstructed FCCA library, Apparatus 2.0
reflects on how we gather research and build knowledge about culture,
and on the library as a space for contemplation and discovery. This
exhibition expands on its predecessor, Apparatus for a Utopian Image
(2016) at EFA Project Space in New York, initiated by artists Pavla
Sceranková and Dušan Zahoranský to encourage a dialogue between
communities of artists from Prague and New York City. Apparatus 2.0
deepens the engagement through long-distance collaborations between the
same artists, bringing the New York group to meet their Prague
counterparts to complete the exhibition together. Throughout this
exchange, the artists and organizers have considered their experiences –
in different cities, under their respective cultural conditions – to
see how these aspects shape their understanding of images.
