Liquid Fiction
What are the logistic, social and economic circumstances and consequences for digital presence today? During a four month period, artists work part time, from remote geographic and social contexts. What connects them is that each of their practices emerge though the very same online interface––while simultaneously corrupting, configuring or occupying this interface. In the movement from work space to digital public space, liquid and solid matters sediment to confront the concept of “liveness” in contemporary arts. How can the flux between document, action and re-activation of a document enable new ethics for digital presence? How are fluid interfaces occupied?Exceeding the Liquid
by Frida Sandström
Liquid Fiction came about as an enquiry regarding art’s autonomy in times of biopolitical excess, namely: the floating state of governed life. The neighbouring notions biopolitics and biopower were introduced by French philosopher Michel Foucault in end of the last century, to depict the ways in which modern society has historically been (and still is) governed through its means for living – which doesn’t only include the means of production, but also reproductive aspects such as sexuality, health and food – all of which have been brought to the fore during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.