How Much Is Too Much?
In a society that is constantly looking for more, we often find ourselves thinking, how much is too much? The School for Curatorial Studies Venice presents 鈥淗ow Much Is Too Much?鈥� in A plus A Gallery. Curated by 21 international students from The School for Curatorial Studies Venice.
In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes the 鈥渃ontinuous city鈥� of Leonia, where 鈥渆very morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, and listen to the last-minute jingles from the most up-to-date radio.鈥� Though 45 years have passed, Leonia evokes a familiar image for us today. Global cities are overwhelmed with the seemingly endless amount of things to do and see, not to mention products to consume. With this ambush of physical and emotional stimuli, we cannot help but wonder how contemporary society is able to sift through it all. How do we filter through abundance and store our selections? In a society constantly looking for more, we often find ourselves thinking, How Much is Too Much?
Confronted with excess, our instinctive reaction is to organize and compartmentalize our thoughts and experiences. We accumulate and expel, putting things aside to deal with them later, but more often than not we forget what we have put away in the first place. What do our discarded experiences, interactions, thoughts, and objects say about us? How does compartmentalizing as an attempt to manage excess affect our psyche, perception, and overall society? Are we missing something when we try to organize, classify, and fit everything into certain structures?
Addressing the urgency in these questions, How Much is Too Much? welcomes visitors on an immersive journey to discover the substance of our sensory archives only to pause and reflect upon the impact of our habits of compartmentalization.
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In a society that is constantly looking for more, we often find ourselves thinking, how much is too much? The School for Curatorial Studies Venice presents 鈥淗ow Much Is Too Much?鈥� in A plus A Gallery. Curated by 21 international students from The School for Curatorial Studies Venice.
In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes the 鈥渃ontinuous city鈥� of Leonia, where 鈥渆very morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, and listen to the last-minute jingles from the most up-to-date radio.鈥� Though 45 years have passed, Leonia evokes a familiar image for us today. Global cities are overwhelmed with the seemingly endless amount of things to do and see, not to mention products to consume. With this ambush of physical and emotional stimuli, we cannot help but wonder how contemporary society is able to sift through it all. How do we filter through abundance and store our selections? In a society constantly looking for more, we often find ourselves thinking, How Much is Too Much?
Confronted with excess, our instinctive reaction is to organize and compartmentalize our thoughts and experiences. We accumulate and expel, putting things aside to deal with them later, but more often than not we forget what we have put away in the first place. What do our discarded experiences, interactions, thoughts, and objects say about us? How does compartmentalizing as an attempt to manage excess affect our psyche, perception, and overall society? Are we missing something when we try to organize, classify, and fit everything into certain structures?
Addressing the urgency in these questions, How Much is Too Much? welcomes visitors on an immersive journey to discover the substance of our sensory archives only to pause and reflect upon the impact of our habits of compartmentalization.
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