Exhibition - drill
An exhibition by MA Artistic Research at Paradise.
Opening times: Friday 21 November, 18:00-22:00, Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November, 14:00-18:00. Finissage on Sunday.
Curated by Kris Dittel
Graphic design by Dongyoung Lee
Featuring works by:
Severi Aaltonen, Priyageetha Dia, Cemre Eraslan, Roland Farkaš, Nezhla Imanzadeh, Ada Jochimsen, Sunjoo Lee, Andrėja Maiburovaitė, Jonas Motiejus Meškauskas and Margherita Soldati
Introductory text by Kris Dittel
This is not a drill! – or perhaps, is it?
Drill unfolds as a space for testing, revising and risking. Rather than emerging from a predetermined theme, the exhibition begins from a shared moment of transition: artists midway through their studies, navigating deadlines and moving towards something not yet fully formed. It captures a moment where thinking and making are still unsettled but ready for a public encounter.
The exhibition functions as a training ground, a practice exercise, a simulation: a site to try out ideas still taking shape. It embraces risk as method, a leap into the unknown, a material or conceptual detour, a break from established approaches, or an insistence on process. It buzzes, beams, flickers, resisting resolution.
A drill, like a rehearsal, involves repetition, yet no action is ever the same twice. This continuous loop of doing and undoing opens a space for improvisation: for deviation from the known and predictable outcomes. Drill is both a preparation and performance, a collective exercise in staying alert, responsive and open to the unfinished.
Introductory text by Kris Dittel
This is not a drill! – or perhaps, is it?
Drill unfolds as a space for testing, revising and risking. Rather than emerging from a predetermined theme, the exhibition begins from a shared moment of transition: artists midway through their studies, navigating deadlines and moving towards something not yet fully formed. It captures a moment where thinking and making are still unsettled but ready for a public encounter.
The exhibition functions as a training ground, a practice exercise, a simulation: a site to try out ideas still taking shape. It embraces risk as method, a leap into the unknown, a material or conceptual detour, a break from established approaches, or an insistence on process. It buzzes, beams, flickers, resisting resolution.
A drill, like a rehearsal, involves repetition, yet no action is ever the same twice. This continuous loop of doing and undoing opens a space for improvisation: for deviation from the known and predictable outcomes. Drill is both a preparation and performance, a collective exercise in staying alert, responsive and open to the unfinished.
