Otherworld: an exhibition of five artists using animatronics.
Red Bull 381 Projects presents a major exhibition of five leading visual artists working in the field of animatronics. Titled Otherworld and curated by Johnson Chou, the exhibition is located at the Red Bull art space on the corner of Queen and Peter streets in Toronto.
The exhibition brings together five contemporary artists at the cutting edge of animated machinations: Ingrid Bachmann, Jennifer Cherniack, Simone Jones, Laura Paolini and Brandon Vickerd.
Titled other.world, the exhibition explores the fine line between human nature and the animated world of machines. According famed sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, the only thing that distinguishes ourselves from the machines we make is the human capacity for empathy. Without it, we’d be androids, or “andys” as Dick called the artificial human beings that populated his famous 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — a book that became the basis for the cult-film classic Blade Runner. But empathy is partially our own desire to give things around us either human characteristics or living attributes, even if they are just constructs of our own over-active imaginations. This is the idea behind other.world, an exhibition of five artists whose work explores the emotional space between the natural world and the man-made one. Using animatronics to make their installations sway, move, flicker, or stomp, each work explores how animated objects can evoke emotional responses from viewers.
About Red Bull 381 Projects
Red Bull 381 Projects is a platform to engage and gather creative minds to collaborate and broaden passions within the worlds of art and design. Chosen by an independent curatorial board, artists will be invited to utilize the environment as a space, atelier and ultimately a forum to showcase their work.
Red Bull 381 Projects is housed within the Red Bull Toronto office, the same space that played host to the Red Bull Music Academy in 2007. The Academy acts as a creative hub for the emerging music maker, complementing their new sounds with art borne from and shaped by the rich mix of cultures, lifestyles and ideas that is Toronto. 381 Projects strives to continue that legacy.
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