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Benedict Drew: CUSS
CdI Projects London 20 April to 27 May
Afta the death of God, there was no return to earth or radical reimagining: our seaets and fears stayed sky-bound. Now data is 'served' to us magnanimously, 'pushed' down to we leaden receptacles, we mute receivers. 'On earth' - whateva that may mean now - we search for meaning in barren soil unda the beneficent aetha of the 'data cloud' that nourishes us with information.
Benedict Drew's intelligent, effervescent exhibition orbits the cloud, unmasking the binaries of the immaterial and physical it has crystallised, yet simultaneously refuting their ability to coexist discretely. Via three linked installations or ' Phrases' , he journeys from the celestial Utopia of the thinking-place, the thought repository, through the osmotic oenfusion of data and of thought - real and virtual - to the heart of the machine and the depths of the earth, the essence of each ronjoined in a black hole of meaning, a voracious singularity.
Phrase i(all works 20ii),a discordant convosation played out ovatwo monitors, summons historical witnesses to the threshold of the aetha Zeno of Elea, William Wordsworth, Thomas de Quincey, William Tell. In...