15 Mar 2018–29 Apr 2018
Solo Exhibition
"Imaginary Explosions"
Treatise on Imaginary Explosions is a cosmology of works that draw upon geology to examine the deep time scales of structural patriarchy, sexual violence, ruptures, resistance, re-emergence, and friendship as a form of politics. The pseudo-science fiction is comprised of episodic videos, sculptures, costumes and drawings that forge into affective geologies and the idea of becoming mineral.
For her exhibition at Solitude, Caitlin Berrigan presents volume one of the Treatise, an artist’s book published by Broken Dimanche Press. Accompanying the book are sculptures, and the first video episode from volume two of the Treatise. The video series follows a group of transfeminist geologists as they conspire to blow up the world by simultaneously erupting all of Earth’s volcanoes. The geologists investigate volcanoes, remote-sensing laboratories, and geological survey sites across the world, encountering the relationship between the embodied time-scales of geological metamorphosis and human neurological landscapes of trauma. It is an exercise in transfeminist affiliation, collaboration, climate reparation and cosmology creation.
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