Solids in Revolution

Solids in Revolution is the first of two exhibitions for Simultaneous Arrivals (simularr) – an artistic research project on novel or other forms of co-laboration; in other words, practices arising from multiple artists-researchers, each with distinct language and media, working alongside each other. What happens when spaces of creation and thought are shared, what new kinds of spaces emerge from the coming-together and movements of the participants, and how do they relate to the working environments of the group? In bringing together the material forms and the notations of shared processes, it is possible to witness the play of proximity and distance among the individuals, and to witness how forms and ideas reappear in unexpected places.

The rotational movement of bodies transforms curves into volumes, turns contours into spatial forms. Taking the geometrical abstraction of ‘solids of revolution’ further, such movement could metaphorically signify the type of undertaking involved in the creation of an exhibition from artistic research – an interregnum between artistic practice and systematic inquiry, in which questions on aesthetics, knowledge and ethics not only depend on each other, but constitute a rhizomatic weave. The wealth of materials created during three years of implementation of simularr (running from 2022 to 2025 in the PEEK framework of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, AR 714-G) claims a certain emancipation from the project: this exhibition does not “represent” the project in its entirety, instead it performs one particular rotation around it, visualising select artistic crystallisations obtained during the intervals of research.

The exhibition features artefacts and propositions from the twelve artists-researchers that met during the project’s lifespan: Andrea Bakketun, Susanne Bosch, Nayarí Castillo, Emma Cocker, Ludvig Elbaus, Caroline Gatt, Franziska Hederer, Daniele Pozzi, Elena Redaelli, Charlotta Ruth, Hanns Holger Rutz, Fulya Uçanok.