Urbonas Studio: The Learning Machine. Learning and Playing Wolk Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA; February 9-April 8, 2011
The Learning Machine explores the symbolic relationship between women and the state, taking women’s voices as expressions of the psychological impact of the Cold War on multiple generations. Developed for a post-Soviet context, the project studies the cinematic construction of the feminine ‘victim’ identity, and its inscription onto the lives of individual women and entire nations alike. Drawing on psychiatry, the Learning Machine reveals the particular construction and articulation of women’s voices in popular culture, and develops its own archival strategies in order to narrate experiences and attitudes that differ radically from media portrayals. The Learning Machine ultimately disrupts the familiar symbolic deadlock of victimization, creating new conditions for women’s voices today.
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The Urbonas Studio’s interdisciplinary research program advocates for the reclamation of public culture in the face of overwhelming privatization. Often beginning with archival research, they develop complex participatory works investigating architecture, the urban environment, and cultural and technological heritage.
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