Trying to Cope with Things That Aren't Human (Part One), David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA; Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent, uk; Cell Project Space, London, UK

Trying To Cope With Things That Aren’t Human (Part One) places us in a familiar position, one where we often struggle to deal with the things around us, unable to completely understand how technology works but simultaneously unable to truly understand the beauty of nature. We remain confused but still standing - between the things that we have made and the things that we have not, what could be called the invented world and the natural world.

To the extent that it discusses difference, this exhibition also tries to find the common ground, or indeed the threshold, between our ability to cope with the things that we have created, to make our lives easier, and our struggle to relate to the wonders of the natural world. It is maybe only right that both the invented world and the natural world could also be equally and simultaneously called non-human. Often viewed as a dichotomy, technology and nature have a fluid relationship, one which judders and jerks all the time, rubbing up against one another.

Curated by: Ian Brown 

Participating artists:  Richard Hughes | Annika Ström | Ryan Gander | Heather and Ivan Morison | Johanna Hällsten | Richard T. Walker | Marcus Coates | Alex Pearl | Ian Brown | Mariele Neudecker | Alan Currall 

Trying to Cope with Things That Aren't Human (Part One), David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA; Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent, uk; Cell Project Space, London, UK

For the exhibition there is a accompanying publication ‘Trying Hard to Cope With things That Aren’t Human (Part One)’ which functions not as a documentary catalogue for the show but as part of the exhibition itself. It is formed from a selection of newly commissioned artworks by some of the artists and writers who have contributed to the exhibition’s ideas and concepts along with two additional contributors. 

Contributors:  Paul Rooney | Annika Ström | Ryan Gander | Heather and Ivan Morison | Francis McKee | Richard T. Walker | Alex Pearl | Ian Brown 

Edited by: Ian Brown

Design: Phil Rawle, Milika Muritu, Ian Brown & Ryan Gander