Third World: The Bottom Dimension
Gabriel Massan: Third World – The Bottom Dimension
The publication documents the Third World: The Bottom Dimension project, comprising a decolonial video game, exhibitions and web3 tokens, conceptualised by artist Gabriel Massan. The project platforms and brings together a vital generation of interdisciplinary, queer, Afro-diasporic Brazilian artists. Together their work embraces ancestral knowledge, decolonial gospels, climate sensibility, speculative fiction, and an openness to transformation.
The book challenges us to reconsider the ways we understand our actions in the world through the lens of decoloniality, queer theories, and decentralized strategies in technology, economics and philosophy. The project, developed through collaboration and a multiplicity of voices, builds through this publication, a portal for us to enter a state of radical imagination.
Edited by: Lorraine Mendes, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Leila Graziela Costa Oliveria, Sarah Hamed, Mickaelle Lima Souza, Vi Trinh
Text by: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bettina Korek, Kay Watson, Jochen Volz, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ana Paula Lopes, Camoes Dies, Lorraine Mendes, Salome Asega, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Ayrson Heraclito.
Exercises by: Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Ventura Profana, Novissimo Edgar, LYZZA.
£25
Language: English/Portuguese
Pages: 176
Dimensions: 18 x 24.5 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0715-2
Serpentine, London; Kunst / Art
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Artist
Gabriel Massan
Gabriel Massan (b.1996 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. Combining storytelling and worldbuilding, Massan creates worlds that simulate and narrate situations of inequality within the Latin American experience. Framed through a conceptual practice they call ‘fictional archaeology’, and working across 3D animation, digital sculpture, games, sound, and interactive installations, the artist challenges warped conceptions of the so-called ‘Third World’ while investigating possibilities for subversive otherness. Selected residencies and awards include the Arts Explora Program supported by Cité Internationale Des Arts (2023), Dazed 100 (2022), Circa x Dazed (2021), Instituto Moreira Salles (2020) and ETOPIA – Center for Art & Technology (2019). They have created significant commissions with Serpentine Arts Technologies (2022-3), Bangkok Biennale (2022), The Photographers’ Gallery (2022), and X Museum (2022). Massan has presented talks and conversations at institutions including La Biennale di Venezia, Art Basel Miami, DLD Conference, University College London, Royal College Of Arts and Institut Français. Recent exhibitions include: ‘WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age” (Julia Stoschek Collection, 2022; Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2023); ‘Canon!’ (Frieze No.9 Cork Street, 2022) and ‘Possible Agreements’ (Mendes Wood DM, 2022). In June 2023, they launched the critically acclaimed multipart project ‘Third World: The Bottom Dimension’ at Serpentine, London, which includes a collaborative video game, multidisciplinary exhibition and web3 tokens.
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