{"id":1547,"date":"2022-03-15T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:01:26","slug":"liz-dom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/liz-dom\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Dom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta.Morf 2022 \/ Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT), NTNU \/
\nExhibition Program May 3\u2013June 19 \/ Curator: Alex Murray-Leslie<\/p>\n

Viral Load<\/h2>\n

Liz Dom [ZA\/NO]<\/h5>\n

There\u2019s another virus destroying the planet – its name is misinformation<\/i>. Due to an unmitigated, rampant spread, a new variant has developed, too, called truthiness<\/i>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve come into contact with its symptoms; hopefully, you\u2019re not infected\u2026
\n\u2013 Information spreads virally; we\u2019ve even got a term for it – a video, image, or story went viral<\/i> – and while this is how stories got around for centuries, by word-of-mouth, the Internet and social media have accelerated this word-of-mouth spreading to a point where it\u2019s moving too fast.<\/p>\n

Too fast to be checked, too fast to even be red.<\/p>\n

This is hurting our world – from Covid-19 anti-vax sentiment and the denial of an impending climate crisis to the incitement of insurrection because of a little troll called Q.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it, you\u2019ve probably shared misinformation, not intentionally, mind you, but because it appeals to your biases or you simply found the headline interesting and\/or triggering and didn\u2019t bother to read the article.<\/p>\n

Our actions have consequences, however, and with misinformation or truthiness<\/i> (the concept that something\u2019s true because you feel<\/i> it is) these can be quite extensive.<\/p>\n

We simply don\u2019t know how to read visually anymore – what does misinformation look like? Do you know? This is an immediate artistic problem.<\/p>\n

Through several visual and performative experiments, Liz Dom\u2019s work aims to discern not only the phenomena of misinformation but how<\/i> it happens.<\/p>\n

By involving the public in the making, she asks them to discover the how<\/i> with her and to become conscious of their decisions using a learn-by-doing approach.<\/p>\n

Liz Dom\u00b4s work confronts the audience with the very stuff of misinformation – information – through a variety of media; from news to social media, games to documentary, and asks them to make decisions based on how they\u2019re reading it. This active questioning reveals the how<\/i> – from cognitive bias and ideology to a slew of small, seemingly minor influences that lead to sharing or believing something false.<\/p>\n

In a performative round table, called Viral Load<\/i>, at Adressaparken, May 20, 4 PM, Liz Dom will interview a journalist from Addressavisa newspaper and the Norwegian public about fake news and misinformation. She will pose as a journalist, truther and fortune-teller, mixing fact and fiction in a surreal, absurd demonstration of the skewed stories we tell about our world.<\/p>\n

The title, Viral Load<\/i>, speaks towards the total of alternative facts, half truths and misinformation contained within a message and its probability of being highly contagious.<\/p>\n

As ecophiles, it is our responsibility to be good ancestors to future generations; 2050 is just shy of 30 years from now.<\/p>\n

Misinformation and its symptoms can be cured if we treat the root cause – a growing visual illiteracy and an over-reliance on truthiness.<\/p>\n

Sure, we don\u2019t share the same facts, and, therefore, not the same reality, but perhaps we can get closer to sharing the same truths, at least.<\/p>\n

Program
\n<\/b>Exhibition & screen based works across Trondheim & Tr\u00f8ndelag
\n<\/b>K-U-K \u2013 Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst, Olavshallen screens, Clarion hotel, Trondheim Public Library, and Adressaparken, May 14 – June 6
\nNils Aas Kunstverksted, May 15 – June 12<\/p>\n

Film screening of experimental documentary
\n<\/b>Hall of Mirrors @ <\/i>Cinemateket
\nMay 14 @ 18:00 – 19:00
\nMay 21 @ 15:00 – 17:00
\nJune 3 @ 17:00 – 19:00<\/p>\n

<\/b>Exhibition openings
\n<\/b>K-U-K \u2013 Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst, May 14 @ 15:00 – 18:00
\nNils Aas Kunstverksted, May 15 @ 13:00 – 15:00<\/p>\n

Performances
\n<\/b>Nils Aas Kunstverksted, May 15 @ 13:00 – 15:00
\nAdressaparken, May 20 @ 16:00 – 17:00
\nViral Load<\/i>: An Interview with the public<\/i>. A performative round table by Liz Dom in collaboration with artists Joshua Dekia and Malakias Liebmann.<\/p>\n

\"\"Liz Dom
\n<\/strong>Liz Dom is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) at University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2016, being awarded the Certificate of Excellence in the Field of Fine Arts for her final exhibition WOLD<\/i>. Dom is non-insistent about a specific practice or medium, preferring to be recognised for her emergent, experimental approach, allowing thematic concepts to guide her visual research and arising narratives.<\/p>\n

instagram\/liz.dom<\/a><\/p>\n

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Header Graphics: “We Never Landed on the Moon” by\u00a0Liz Dom & Harald Bredholt, 2021. Photo: Michael Miller.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s another virus destroying the planet – its name is misinformation. Due to an unmitigated, rampant spread, a new variant has developed, too, called truthiness.<\/p>\n

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