Red Members Tour of Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY

Chief Curator Richard Birkett leads an exclusive ICA Red Members tour of the exhibition Metahaven: VERSION HISTORY.

 

VERSION HISTORY is the first solo exhibition in a major UK institution by artists, filmmakers and designers Metahaven, featuring an expansive new moving-image commission as part of an overview of their hybrid investigations into overlapping geopolitical, technological and emotional conditions.

 

VERSION HISTORY centres on three moving-image works: the newly commissioned feature-length Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) (2018), Hometown (2018) and Information Skies (2016). These works share a vibrant aesthetic language that combines cinematic imagery with graphic, animated layers and immersive soundscapes. They are presented within distinctive installations, including a series of murals threaded through the Institute’s galleries, and a hand-tufted carpet. The dual meanings summoned by the exhibition title – both different versions of history and reality and an interface through which these versions are rendered – are at the heart of the three works.

 

Read more about the exhibition here.

 

This tour is part of the ICA Red Membership programme. Red Members gain unlimited access to all ICA programmes as well as unique insight into the ICA programme by participating in private, curator-led tours, exhibition previews and other special events

 

Sign up to Red Membership for £16.66 per month here.