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Uncontainable{second nature} was curated by Ian Clothier with a panel consisting of Tengaruru Wineera, Nina Czegledy and Trudy Lane, for ISEA 2011 Istanbul. The exhibition crossed cultural and discipline boundaries. A cultural bridge has been constructed, providing a framework of both Maori and European knowledge. Five themes from within European and Maori world views were located.

Given the intercultural bridge, works from art and science are recontextualised as cultural texts symbolic of belief systems. Discipline was not fixed, but fluid in a transformational environment. In the exhibition, digital and post-digital existed in a state of hybridity.

The five themes were: cosmological context, all is energy, life emerged from water, anthropic principle and integrated systems. These are shared concepts among the knowledge bases of diverse cultures.

Included are works by Julian Oliver, recipient of the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in 2011, Lisa Reihana, Julian Priest, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Sophie Jerram and Dugal McKinnon, Rachel Rakena, Jo Tito, Associate Professor Mike Paulin (Zoology), Paul Moss and Te Huirangi Waikerepuru.

The show opened at Dawn on September 14th at Cumhuriyet Art Gallery Taksim Square Istanbul and ran to October 12th as part of ISEA 2011 Istanbul.

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This is a link to the Sabanci Uniuversity webpage for the ISEA2011 project.