Genova



curated by Gabriella Arrigoni

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

Defective Science is a group show featuring video pieces 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 elude 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.



Works on display

Darren Banks, Phantom Sock, mixed media installation (2006)
Darren Banks, When nobody’s there, video (2006)
Davide Bertocchi, Meteorite al Contrario, poster (2010 – 2020)
Davide Bertocchi, Collider, mised media installation (2010)
Cesare Bignotti, Black Rainbow. 1943. Philadelphia Experiment, prints and media installation (2011)
Sarah Ciraci, 2012, video (2004)
Andrea Dojmi, Ely, video (2011)
Jacopo Miliani, Dieci, performance and works on paper (2011)
Marie Velardi, Acqua sulla luna (ispirato da Galileo Galilei, 1609), ink on paper (2009)
Marie Velardi, Helium-3 sul lato scuro della luna, ink on paper (2009)
Marie Velardi, Luna (2011-2087), ink on paper (2009)