Iridescence and the Rising Wave

Iridescence and the Rising Wave  is an ever-expanding downloadable exhibition of past, current and future artists in Shimmer. This online exhibition can be visited online from September 1, presents all the artists who participated in previous exhibitions at Shimmer to create an ever-expanding, downloadable total exhibition. It provides an intimate look behind the scenes and the creation of exhibitions. Iridescence and the Rising Wave is a project that takes place between (or outside) the 'online / offline' binaries of our experience world.

So expect images of Shimmer's 'behind the scenes' process, developed in an improvised darkroom: the unpacking, installation and decision-making with the artist on site or online. In addition, there is a collaboration with the Rotterdam architect Dirk Osinga, who has drawn the artworks from the digital documentation with precision and care, Antonio de la Hera and Liz Allen, who help shape the whole.

Participating artists include: Alireza Abbasy, Alaa Abu Asad, Dagma Bosma, Dean Bowen, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Ulufer Celik, Matthew Stadler, Isabelle Sully, Eloise Sweetman, Reinier Vrancken, Chao-tze Liu, Geo Wyeth and Ellen Gallagher. (TB)

This first downloadable exhibition includes work by both international and Rotterdam artists from the recent exhibition Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! softer, softer from Shimmer. As the project progresses, photos, drawings and from previous exhibitions such as Ever-, Post-Solar, Our Time Together is Uncertain, LW / LW, and the future exhibition World as Lover, World as Self added. 

Iridescence and the Rising Wave is also linked to Across the Way With ...: a growing series of informal readings from, with and about intimacy in the public domain. Participants include Sekai Makoni (To be released), Maike Hemmers, Antonio de la Hera, Babette Kleijn (To be released) & Matt Hinkley. (TB)

For more information, visit Shimmer online.

Iridescence & The Rising Wave is supported by CBK Rotterdam and the Creative Industries Fund NL.
Across the Way With… is supported by the Together Alone project of the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes, Creative Industries Fund NL and CBK Rotterdam.