A new exhibition at Hanover Project to explore Yuk Hui’s concept of Cosmotechnics.

Hanover Project is delighted to announce a new exhibition featuring artists Simon Blackmore, Andy Broadey, Paul Dolan, Helen Knowles that will launch via www.cosmotechnics.net on 20th May 2021 at 5 pm. This exhibition takes the form of a website and online artists’ discussion, including guest artist-philosopher El Putnam, and marks the completion of an initial phase of research examining how Cosmotechnics impacts the concept and practice of art-making.

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Hui explains, ‘The concept of cosmotechnics concerns the idea that different cultures and epochs have different ways of thinking about technology’ (Hui, 2019). The artists are interested in how this term explains the co-functioning of technical, moral, ecological and social relations of the 21st Century as emerging from within specific localities. Cosmotechnics calls for a re-prioritisation of the local as a way of challenging western imposed ideas of progress, and assumptions that our modernity is entirely conditioned by networked globalisation.