This collective from London is an organization led by two London-born artists, Anjalika Sagar (b. 1968) and Kodwo Eshun (b. 1967). Founded in 2002, the group studies the image in contemporary culture by means of film and video, artists’ texts, workshops, curatedexhibitions, publications, and other public platforms. The Otolith Group is dedicated toresearch-oriented projects on the legacy and potential of artist-led proposals on the document, the essay film, the archive, the medium of sound [...]
This collective from London is an organization led by two London-born artists, Anjalika Sagar (b. 1968) and Kodwo Eshun (b. 1967). Founded in 2002, the group studies the image in contemporary culture by means of film and video, artists’ texts, workshops, curatedexhibitions, publications, and other public platforms. The Otolith Group is dedicated toresearch-oriented projects on the legacy and potential of artist-led proposals on the document, the essay film, the archive, the medium of sound, and “speculative futures” and science fictions. Nationally and internationally, the group has used its works to develop platforms for the production of the experimental in the practice of the moving image. The Otolith Group has exhibited single-channel works in the United Kingdom and abroad, among them Otolith I (2003), Otolith II (2007),Nervus Rerum (2008), and Otolith III (2009). In addition, they have produced a series of installations, including Inner Time of Television (2007), featuring thirteen monitors (Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale). Participation in relevant art festivals and biennials, such as 2006: Tate Triennial; 2008: 7th Shanghai Biennial and Manifesta 8; 2010: 29th Bienal de São Paulo. One of its most importantsolo exhibitions wasThoughtform, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2010. The OtolithGroup was nominated for the Turner Prize that same year.