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KIT's installation presented at Momenta, "Airbag Architecture", examines how culture negotiates disaster. "Autoskins", suggestive of trophies taken from a dead automobile, are constructed from materials closest to the crash victim upon the point of impact - the airbag, car seat material, seat belt, etc. Produced as multi functional articles (wrapping devices, delivery vehicles or as trophy-like objects), they are ambiguous. As such they fulfil the criteria of what constitutes a sacro-religious article, fulfilling a ritual function within an ordered process and inducing a reverence when exhibited. Inverted scientific equations, which stand for a happening within the crash sequence (such as the deceleration of the vehicle and the follow through trajectory of the body) have been used | ||||
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as a science-tech language that rationalizes the accident and purports to prevent it from happening again. The inversion of the equations intends to reverse the temporality of the accident sequence, suggesting a time both after the accident when they can be used as body bags or a reversal of the point of impact. KIT is an
international collective of artists working collaboratively on site-specific
projects. KIT's membership varies and the identities of participating
artists remain anonymous. Their work is media-based with socio-political
concerns, working together through e-mail discussion. Recent solo exhibitions
of the work of KIT include The Photographers Gallery, London, The Physics
Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, and XYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada. For
further information about KIT please visit their web-site at http://members.tripod.com/~webkit/
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