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Our Non-Understanding of Everything 06

eteam

2022 00:10:32 United States, TaiwanColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
Environment, Nature, Technology

Description

Our Non-Understanding of Everything is a series of 16 videos that explore how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies, cognitive processes, and relationships to the natural environment.

The project is the daily practice of observation, questioning and switching perspectives in order to understand our relationship to our tech-devices and their existence in the world. Motivated by finding ways to imagine what our smart phones want from us and if we can communicate with them, we are using our natural and human built environments to possibly entertain, relax and stimulate the technical devices, that so profoundly influence our conception of the universe and our relation to it.

All videos for the project are collected in the compilation Our Non-Understanding of Everything.

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole.

eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons.

They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel Grabeland was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

They received to Fulbright Scholarships to research the relationship between traditional puppetry and digital smart phones in Taiwan.

Also available from eteam is the book Buzz Cut