Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • Focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery

    Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery

    Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery

    Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    DAN Galeria: Geometria como impulso poético

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME >  The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME >  Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • it IT
  • en English
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • Focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery

    Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery

    Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery

    Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    DAN Galeria: Geometria como impulso poético

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME >  The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME >  Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home exhibitions

Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

Rock Bottom is the exhibition by Abe Sugarman soon on view at Arebyte Gallery in London.

Arshake by Arshake
10/03/2023
in exhibitions, Focus
Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

Abe Sugarman is the winner of hotel generation 2022, arebyte’s yearly programme mentoring the next generation of UK digital artists during the critical early stages of establishing a career in the arts.

Set inside a bottomless zone with no light, deep inside a cryptic ocean trench, Rock Bottom is a choose-your-own-adventure journey composed of games, video works and sculpture. Through this meandering twilight zone, concepts of queer time, queer survival, and Jellyfish Temporality escape and converge into animated characters and their unsettling environments. The exhibition implements emergent ecological systems, the materiality and power of restarting, and non-linear lifecycles as metaphorical pointers to introduce the narrative of survival; encouraging players to understand how (un)localised deep-rooted trauma and catatrophe can be comprehended.

Bridging societal, interdependent and environmental parameters, the exhibition installation encourages players to become entangled within the game world and its material replication, through life-size monsters and theatre-esque props surrounding and backdropping the playable works. This newly commissioned exhibition concludes arebyte’s 2022/23 programme Sci-Fi which looks at fictioning and alternative futures through a series of exhibitions, live performances, online experiences and educational activities.

The gallery is divided into zones dedicated to different areas of investigation within the exhibition: Northern values and patriotism, the possible productive power of the transitory Jellyfish lifecycle, and reconciling with fear and temptation of the unknown. The installation forms a web of locations within Rock Bottom; provincial garden centres, your ex’s house, and a bodiless town centre in post-Industrial-somewhere all feel familiar but otherworldly.

The exhibition questions how to live at death’s door with cataclysms of many scales using seemingly non-compatible sites of discussion. Eutrophicated seas trigger blooms of the undead survivor in Jellyfish Fields, SpongeBob Squarepants’ enemy Mrs Whiskers journeys to an uncanny time in Rock Bottom, and the depths of the Calder Valley’s flood system come together to mirror a time of instability in crises of the environment in the River Calder Roblox environment.

Science-fiction-esque in its nature of imagining significant environmental change and portraying the meaning of time at the bottom of the ocean, Rock Bottom encourages us to understand worlds we don’t yet know, resisting engendered stereotyping and silencing of cast-aside voices.

Adopting the Freudian notion of the Death Drive, the works in the exhibition examine the dominant push towards pessimism through behaviours such as aggression, self-doubt and self-destruction often accounted for by way of agendas outside of personal control.

This self-perpetuating ideology of the instinctual seeking of pain is exacerbated and recounted back to use in strategies of governmental policy-making favouring more economically-stable regions or deceptive green-washing amongst many others. The works in Rock Bottom present post-apocalyptic thinking and argue for a “compulsive return to scenes of destruction [and] symptomatic of a traumatised culture.”

Falling into the deep aphotic ocean trench, as our protagonist does, reveals the inherent struggle towards escape when at the deepest point. The characters within Rock Bottom portray these Death Drive behaviours and sentiments through conversations, strange emotes, childhood absurdity and actions when interacted with. It becomes apparent that within the struggle and darkness of localised and planetary pain, light and optimism will emerge through the rethinking and recontextualising of spacetime.

Abe Sugarman. Rock Bottom, Arebyte Gallery, London, 16.03 – 15.04.2023

images: (cover 1) Abe Sugarman, «Gordon Riggs outside», still from Rock Bottom, 2023 (2) Abe Sugarman, «Hag Fish», still from Rock Bottom, 2023 (3) Abe Sugarman, still from «Jellyfish Fields film», 2023. Commissioned by arebyte (4) Abe Sugarman, still from «River Calder Roblox game», 2023. Commissioned by arebyte (5) Abe Sugarman, still from Rock Bottom game, 2023. Commissioned by arebyte

 

 

Tags: Abe SugarmanArebyte GalleryexhibitionLondonsculpturevideovideo game
ShareTweetShareSend
Previous Post

Tanti auguri e saluti

Next Post

VIDEO POST > Fractured

Arshake

Arshake

Related Posts

Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery
exhibitions

Pamela Diamante at the Gilda Lavia Gallery

by Fabio Giagnacovo
04/06/2025
Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery
exhibitions

Arcangelo Sassolino at the Continua Gallery

by Arshake
28/05/2025

CALLS

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth
Calls

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

14/05/2025
Open call – Schermo dell’Arte
Calls

Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

07/05/2025
Open Call: State of the ART(ist)
Calls

Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

05/05/2025
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize 4
Calls

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize 4

18/03/2025
https://www.arshake.com/special-project-banner/young-italian-artists/
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2024 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Gestisci Consenso Cookie
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici. L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Visualizza le preferenze
{title} {title} {title}
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES

© 2024 – ARSHAKE

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.