Plane of Immanence

The future world of tomorrow lies in the agencies that convey our generation to strive for more. Plane of Immanence sets out to reform the relationship of Arts from being reflective to become suggestive. It invites a collective of artists who comprehend arts as an understanding for problem solving. The aim of the exhibition is to become both innovative and provocative.

Plane of Immanence builds upon the works of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Based on his conception, the collapse of space and time implies the same manifestation of multiple times, through the erasure of distance. And the complete flattening of space-time causes the representation to lose its referential distance. The signi er and the signifier become one. This curating project deliberates on creating a dialogue of distance. "Present" interact with the "Future" as they began to exist within the same plane which is "A surface for the absolute movement of thought.". Concepts are like multiple waves, rising and falling, but the plane of immanence is the single wave that rolls them up and unrolls them.

Plane of Immanence questions solution and question itself .Growing out of an organic collaboration which promotes acceptance, innovation, inspiration through imagination and research.

Curated by Uchercie Tang & Aron Mathe

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Space Credits

1. Feng Zhi Xuan
2 .Hannah Rowan
3. Hannah Rowan

4. Jade Andrews
5. Uchercie
6. Uchercie

7. Ma Si Liang
8. I Liang Cheng
9. Alt-Modus

10. Shen Yang
11. Aron Mathe

Alt-Modus 9

‘Untitled (Interventions)’

Alt-Modus is an art collective, aiming to challenge established structures of power through interventions in the public sphere. These interventions often blur the line between performance and activism, antagonising authority, raising questions, and at times bewildering onlookers.

Untitled (Interventions) comprises of two interventions documented as a video projection and physical materials. The first intervention applies the ancient English ceremony of 'beating the bounds'. This update to the ceremony is carried out around City Hall, a Privately Owned Public Space (POPS), owned by internationally based company, More London. The liturgical garments are swapped to business attire, to allude to the shift in authority from church to multinational corporations.

H&M is the focus of the second intervention. Targeting customers and floor staff, Alt-Modus obstructs barcodes pertaining to items of clothing with stickers, frustrating the system of purchase. The stickers display a QR code, which links to various documents that highlight the malpractice of poverty wages utilised by H&M.

Aron Mathe 11

‘Destined 0.1’

‘Destined 0.1’ presents a living genetically modified 3 month embryo in development for long term interstellar travel.
Variants in the LRP5 gene increase bone density and could counter long-term microgravity exposure that is known to cause spaceflight osteopenia (bone loss).3. The MSTN gene leads to unusually large and strong, lean muscle and could offset muscular atrophy that is common in astronauts. Studies show that EPAS1 variants carried by Tibetans optimize their bodies for the low air pressure and oxygen levels of high altitude environments which are also typical in space. Variants in PDE4B are associated with lower anxiety and higher problem solving capacity, important when considering the solitude and potential feelings of helplessness and resource limitations of life in space. Variants in DEC2 suggest the capacity to function at high levels with less sleep than the average person, potentially helpful in space given more difficult sleeping conditions.
Long stretches in space will impact how we age but could be offset by variants in multiple genes including APOE, TERT and APP, which contribute to physical and mental longevity. The protective effect associated with a variant in TP53 could help guard against the harmful impact of radiation on DNA and related tissue inflammation. A variant of the NOS3 gene has been shown to have dramatic anti-inflammatory effects in radiation-induced pneumonitis.

Feng Zhi Xuan 1

‘Find the bestch’

www.fengzhixuan.co.uk

“ During the spring and summer, dad works in the desert. In autumn and winter, he works at the beach.” My mother said.

As a child, in the winter time, my mother took me to the city where my dad used to work, he said that he worked in the desert during the spring and summer and also at the beach during the autumn and winter.
When we arrived there the city was huge and divided by an enormous mountain, in the west were sand dunes and in the east was the coast.
“Let’s go east” said my mom
“Its winter, he must be at the beach” I thought.
We searched everywhere but could only find a wired cactus with roots like a lions paw.
Suddenly my mom saw a fisherman and asked him about my dad.
“It’s winter here, you will find him at the beach” said the fisherman.”
“We have been searching yet he is nowhere to be found” mom said.
“You must be confused! This is the desert, you must go to the other side” said the fisherman.
And surely we found him.
“Dad? Did you not work at the beach during the winter?” I asked
“Haha, this is the beach! Patting my head he replied.
“The cactus you saw on the other side are mythical creatures, every winter they inhabit the east side, and during the summer they will slowly climb towards the west, wherever these creatures are is the desert and the other becomes the beach, this is what the locals here believe” said my dad
“Aha, so you work in the desert all year around” I said.
“Silly child”

“ During the spring and summer, dad works in the desert. In autumn and winter, he works at the beach.” My mother said.

As a child, in the winter time, my mother took me to the city where my dad used to work, he said that he worked in the desert during the spring and summer and also at the beach during the autumn and winter.
When we arrived there the city was huge and divided by an enormous mountain, in the west were sand dunes and in the east was the coast.
“Let’s go east” said my mom
“Its winter, he must be at the beach” I thought.
We searched everywhere but could only find a wired cactus with roots like a lions paw.
Suddenly my mom saw a fisherman and asked him about my dad.
“It’s winter here, you will find him at the beach” said the fisherman.”
“We have been searching yet he is nowhere to be found” mom said.
“You must be confused! This is the desert, you must go to the other side” said the fisherman.
And surely we found him.
“Dad? Did you not work at the beach during the winter?” I asked
“Haha, this is the beach! Patting my head he replied.
“The cactus you saw on the other side are mythical creatures, every winter they inhabit the east side, and during the summer they will slowly climb towards the west, wherever these creatures are is the desert and the other becomes the beach, this is what the locals here believe” said my dad
“Aha, so you work in the desert all year around” I said.
“Silly child”

“ During the spring and summer, dad works in the desert. In autumn and winter, he works at the beach.” My mother said.

As a child, in the winter time, my mother took me to the city where my dad used to work, he said that he worked in the desert during the spring and summer and also at the beach during the autumn and winter.
When we arrived there the city was huge and divided by an enormous mountain, in the west were sand dunes and in the east was the coast.
“Let’s go east” said my mom
“Its winter, he must be at the beach” I thought.

Hannah Rowan 2-3

‘Salt Flat Cascade'
'We're the Heirs to the glimmering World’

www.hannah-rowan.com

These works embody fragile and precarious ecological structures, hinting at expansion whilst verging on the edge of entropy. They speak plainly of the state of the natural world so present in my thinking - not a submissive Romantic awe - but a febrile fascination with an environment contending with gigantic ocean trash vortexes, with rampant deforestation and desertification, with mass flooding and sunken habitats.
I set out to explore a tactile engagement with materiality, in an era when lived experience is so frequently mediated in virtual space. When it feels as though we are swimming in data while drowning in melting ice, I develop fragile and ephemeral works as a tactile, even poetic, response to this uncanny feeling of being present at the birth of an extreme age.

I Liang Cheng 8
‘No.2 12.04.2018’

i-liang.cheng.com

There is something gradually fading away in my everyday life. This something is either in a legible form or concealed. The experience of living in two different time zones is shredded into fragments and each time when I have to turn on my body switch to adjust myself in a time zone after a long travel, I feel like I have lost parts of my memories of living in the other. The longer I live and exist in this time, the faster the other one recedes. To me, it almost feels like there is no past, no tomorrow, but only present.

Uchercie 5-6
‘The paradigm in the trail’
‘Juxtapositional metabolism’

www.uchercie.com

Jade Andrews 4
‘Body Bolster 2018’

cargocollective.com/JadeAndrews

Exploring the primal embodiment of a sensory fixated sexualisation.

Ma Si Liang 7

‘Monument’
www.masiliang.com

It is a figure of masculinity of our age when greatness correctness and absoluteness lost its legitimacy.
In 1999 Susan Faludi published Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. The book consisted of a mixture of cultural and historical readings, with detailed accounts, interviews and conversations with a diverse catalogue of males. What she found on her listening tour of men was a feeling of irrelevance; a profound sense that yesterday’s fathers had prepared today’s sons to enter a completely different world from the one they ended up in. Not just in the sense that the economic turn had shifted men from physical manufacturing labour to service, or the implicit irony of men creating the machines that would eventually replace them. Faludi’s sense of betrayal had deeper more cultural roots

Yang Shen 10
‘It's no longer mysterious once it is observed’

The video shows a mimicking scene of a geographical investigation. The investigation is about an environmental scientist, performed by me, analysing and extracting samples from a spot where an abnormal phenomena happens.