The show also includes 2D and 3D neon light sculptures, some affixed traditionally to the walls, some leaning more casually, and others hanging from the ceiling, exploring the immaterial properties of light, colour, motion, and the time and space in between. .
"We are made of the same raw materials as bacteria, as earth, as rock, as the great dark nebulae of dust that swim between the stars, as the stars themselves", writes Haddon, introducing extracts that explore how the sense of being made of something immaterial, too, has long haunted humans.
It's another conversion – of a former theatre in Hudson, New York, which OMA promises to transform into a new type of cultural building, "a laboratory for exploring time-based and immaterial art".
With contributions from Daniel Canogar, exonemo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sara Ludy, Sarah Rothberg, Angela Washko and Andrea Wolf, Memory Burn features art that explores ideas of the tactile and immaterial or presence and absence.
Contemporary portraiture can be even more provisional, immaterial and high-tech than anything on view here, and the Aldrich falls short of exploring the phenomena of Facebook and the billions of cellphone portraits that have become our latest ways of imaging the self.
On our article exploring why Lebanon's bill on domestic violence fails to tackle marital rape, timetorise wrote: Making any law is immaterial if the laws aren't implemented.
The novel, he contends, is peculiarly adept at exploring this contradiction, because as a form it is created with the premise that it can contain material life (bodies, space and time) while also remaining only an immaterial collection of words on a page.
