Rhodiola | 3 137

18 March - 30 May 2019 | 10AM-7PM

Alserkal Residency has selected Athens-based artist collective 3 137 to curate ‘Rhodiola’, the first commission under Alserkal Avenue’s not-for-profit Alserkal Arts Foundation. The programme-based commission borrows its title from the healing rhodiola rosea flower, and will launch on 18 March during Art Week in Alserkal Avenue. ‘Rhodiola’ will serve as an intervention in Nadi Al Quoz in The Yard, running for six weeks at variable tempos and taking inspiration from radio frequencies, coming to life across five “Waves”.

Wave 1: AC/Scaffold
Staging your well-being: domesticity / infrastructure / support / urbanist / futurology / ruin / artificial / setting / programme / communication / transport / handle / zero carbon / haunt / process / decoration

Wave 2: Cookies
An invisible statistical map: comfort / biscuit / language / geography / immaterial / tube / high performance / queue / contract / start up / franchise / labour / convention / customer / demands

Wave 3: Dentist
For the making of the perfect Avatar: profit / cleaning / care / stereotypes / normal vs casual / duties / internship / coaching / rescue / post human / cabinet / mechanics / hucksterism / spectacular

Wave 4: Snooze
Be ready to be cured and listen to your personalised divination: oracle / cosmism / benefit / concentration / treatment / beautician / meditation / transit / school / degrowth / divination / preemptive / superheroes

Wave 5: Sunscreen
A casual service: tourism / dog walker / slow food / happiness / psychoanalysis / upbringing / trainer / online banking / service / state / customer / pen friend / love affair / handle / transmission

Rhodiola challenges ordinary perceptions of domestic life and public affairs, and offers a place for moments of active pause.

Artist line-up