Exhibition
Sticky Networks by Iz Paehr

bangaloREsidency Final Showing

Fri, 22.11.2024
5:30 PM NCBS

Sticky Networks, an Exhibition by Iz Paehr marks the culmination of their bangaloREsidency at the Archives at NCBS. 

Sticky Networks interweaves stories about networks. The works on display follow internet infrastructures, plants, fungi and telegrams through the built world, soils, trees and skies. The red wool criss crosses across a fabric that holds a print of a screenshot from a digital map that is overlayed with photos of cables and trees. The wool forms a network, and is still attached to a needle that pokes into the fabric at a point where multiple lines of string meet. The print itself is pixelated so that rooftops and streets can only roughly be made out.

During their time in Bangalore, Iz has been researching and compiling stories of technological development as supposedly linear and frictionless. Following and reaching back into (her-hir-his) stories of telegraphy as a technology that deepened colonial control, they have searched for traces, patterns, breaks and continuities in network structures at the archives and in the city.

Free entry. Open to all.

*Campus entry: Sign in at security office at main NCBS gate and proceed to venue.
*Access information: Entering from the main gate of NCBS leads to a building with a sloped ramp. The exhibition space can be reached without using steps. There are also accessible bathrooms available.