Peripheries

The outer limits of an object, or place, or medium. Where liquid turns to gas. Where categories start to fail. Where the abstract starts to turn concrete. Something usually overlooked. Something hush-hushed. A source of friction. An exile of man-made borders.

Peripheries is a collection of artworks created by artists collaborating remotely, across eleven different countries, over the course of two years. The exhibition explores the tensions between intimacy and alienation, the personal and geographical, as well as real and enacted realities. Using a combination of mediums, including photography, poetry, video, game design, and augmented reality, the artists embrace the cross-border, digital nature of their collaboration to interrogate location, language, and identity. 

The creative process is as important as the final product, as artists find ways to weave familiar and new mediums together in collaboration. How does the consumption of fast-paced media morph our memory and reality? In an increasingly interconnected and destabilized world, how might we navigate unlimited choices, endless possibilities, and desperate unknowns? How can we take ownership of and value our subjectivity, when we live in societies so insistent on speed and productivity?

Produced and curated by Exit 11 as part of the Virtual Collaborative Program for Emerging Artists (VICE), this collection of works emerged from an experiment on community-making in the digital space. This exhibition showcases works from the first two years of the program.  Peripheries is a culmination of Exit 11’s ongoing mission to make art-making an empowering process, especially for emerging artists interested in the cross-pollination of mediums and international collaboration.