Sources Go Dark
Strategies and Counterstrategies in Contemporary Art Practices
FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague with the support of Pro Helvetica Foundation, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Prague, The City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Tranzitdisplay Display, Prague
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
Alvin Toffler
Sources Go Dark strives towards a vision of political reality as an intricate system of agents and agencies where information, events and narratives intersect and function, often eluding our efforts to understand them. This image of complexity could easily describe the feelings of an individual faced with everyday reality and news. Rare, revealing glimpses into hidden financial structures, disclosures of global surveillance or evidence of geopolitical rivalry only reinforce the impression of the presence of impenetrable but rational strategies unfolding, concealed from public view and general awareness. The exhibition questions policies behind the logic of secrecy and witness, transparency and truth, image and cultural production, and draws upon possible strategies employed in contemporary art production aimed at revealing them.
Featuring works by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zbyněk Baladrán, GCC, Goldin&Senneby, Adelita Husni-Bey & Danilo Correale, Uriel Orlow, Vladislav Shapovalov, Michail Tolmachev.