ABOUT SHADOW ARCHIVE
How do we orient without naming, how do we hold space without subjugating, how do we become “we”, be present without othering, colonizing, or being colonized? How do we find presence in absence, and how can we decentralize power and build resistance in image making and dissemination?
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The Shadow Archive is a repository for images of the in-between. Visitors are invited to upload images of shadows – theirs or otherwise – and to write a short description, with the explicit request to not include any personally identifying information (faces, names, locations, etc). An embodiment of Lacan’s objet petit a, the shadow is a trickster: it is simultaneous presence and absence, the self within the Other and Otherness within the self, uncomfortably floating in the triadic relation of body — object — architecture. Power is relational, subjectivity is spatial, narration dictates orientation, and public space, be it in the physical or digital sense, is not neutral or equitable.
Developed for the exhibition Immerse!, the Shadow Archive is an evolving, liminal, inconspicuous monument to visibility, orientation, and translation, inspired by the community surrounding Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion (EE).
References: Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Paul B. Preciado, Shelley Jackson, Edward Soja, Hito Steyerl, Rosalind Krauss
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BIO
Shelley Odradek emerged from a month-long seminar at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in October 2020 as a collaboration between Katie Zazenski and Ola Andrzejewska.
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WITH BACKGROUNDS IN ARCHITECTURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, CONTEMPORARY ART, BORDER-CROSSING AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING, SHELLEY HAS TAKEN ON A LIMINAL FORM THAT IS SOMETIMES INDIVIDUAL AND SOMETIMES COLLECTIVE, ALWAYS EMBODIED AND VIRTUAL, CRITICALLY ENGAGED IN DIGITAL_SOCIAL ETHICS, AND IS SHAPED BY THE CONTINUALLY CHANGING EXTERNAL FORCES BY WHICH WE ARE SHAPED. SHELLEY IS A STRATEGY FOR CURIOSITY, FOR EXPLORING THE BOUNDS OF OUR BODIES, AND FOR NEGOTIATING PRIVILEGE AND (IN)VISIBILITY.
In December 2022, Shelley Odradek became a solo endeavor of Katie Zazenski. Together, Katie and Shelley are exploring new modes of expression and ways of working, and are always interested in new collaborations and formations.
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@shelley_odradek
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Shelley would like to give individual acknowledgement to Kuba Rudziński / Studio Lekko, Joseph Moore, and Amélie Laurence Fortin for their essential support and guidance in the realization of this project. With deepest gratitude and thanks!
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The Shadow Archive was created for/commissioned by Immerse!.
The exhibition Immerse! is realized within the framework of Beyond Matter, an international collaborative practice-based research project that brings developing contemporary culture and its heritage to the verge of virtual reality. The exhibition will take place from 18th February to 30th April 2023 at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion.
Curators: Corina L. Apostol (Tallinn Art Hall) and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (ZKM I Karlsruhe)
Texts: Corina L. Apostol, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Project manager: Hanna-Antheia Stern
Communication: Madli Ehasalu, Agenda PR
International PR: Alexia Menikou, Aurora Bertoli
Graphic design: Henri Kutsar
Exhibition design: Päär Keedus
Installation: Valge Kuup
Technical help: Johan Huimerind, Henri Piiroja, Keiu Maasik
Audio guide: Audioguide OÜ
Translations: Epp Aareleid, Maria Vassiljeva
Copy-editing: Epp Aareleid, Helve Hennoste
Public programme: Annely Köster, Minni Moyle, Aljona Tubaleva (Sally Stuudio); Olesja Katšanovskaja-Münd
Participating Artists: Kristaps Ancāns (LV/UK), Zach Blas (US/CA), Guim Camps (ES/CO), Ami Clarke (UK), Dennis Dizon (PH/ES), Laureta Hajrullahu (XK), Hanna Hildebrand (IT/CH), Laura Kuusk (EE) & Camille Laurelli (FR/EE), Olson Lamaj (AL), Andrii Linik (UA), Anna Manankina (UA/DE), Alyona Movko-Mägi (EE), Bahar Noorzadeh (CA/IR/UK), Shelley Odradek/Katie Zazenski (US/PL), Kirill Savchenkov, Tomo Savić-Gecan (HR/NL), Jonas Staal (NL/GR), Ivar Veermäe (EE/DE) and Ksenia Yurkova (RU/AT).
The exhibition Immerse! is also accompanied by a catalog, which will be published at the opening of the exhibition on 17th of February.
Producer: Tallinn Art Hall, ZKM | Karlsruhe
Managing editor of the publication: Noora Lehtovuori
Editors of the publication: Corina L. Apostol and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Proofreading: Dan O’Connell, Epp Aareleid
Graphic design: Henri Kutsar
Printing and binding: Tallinn Book Printers
Distributed worldwide by Hatje Cantz
Beyond Matter is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
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