Darren Banks: "Defective Science" Sala Dogana, Genoa, Italy

DEFECTIVE SCIENCE curated by Gabriella Arrigoni Darren Banks Davide Bertocchi Cesare Bignotti Sarah Ciraci Andrea Dojmi Jacopo Miliani Marie Velardi Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale p.zza Matteotti 9, Genova 23 April - 15 May, Tuesday to Sunday 15.00-20.00 Opening Friday 22 April h 18.00 Free admission http://www.gg6.comune.genova.it/node/557 Defective Science is a group show featuring video works and installations focusing on the relationship between science and pseudo-science. Seven artists have been invited to elaborate the fake documentation of a number of different phenomena, somehow based on scientific postulates. At the same time, their real possibility of existence is into question and eludes any appropriate scientific methodology. Among the topics present in the works on show: extraterrestrial life, teletransportation, the 2012 catastrophic prophecy, life hidden in inanimate objects and theories about the nature itself of our own Universe. The project aims to investigate how contemporary society relates to scientific knowledge, a complex relationship hang in the balance between absolute trust toward the progress and a mystic attraction for the mysterious and the unexplainable, with the result of an unexpected association of science with the magic and the irrational. image: Darren Banks Phantom Sock, 2006 Umbro Sock, Orbit Building System, Wool 50 x 30 x 19 cm (DB0024) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery