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Testing Grounds and The Nightingale present a curated evening of newly commissio

From Copernicus to Galileo; from the electron-microscope and the x-ray; from cinema to home-television and the internet - the discovery of new looking-devices and their implications in popular consciousness have been instrumental in drastic paradigm shifts across human history.
Discovering new ways to see and imagine can permit us to zoom-in to the minutia of everyday life and peer beneath the surface of our commonly held assumptions and to zoom-out, feel from a much bigger cultural frame and learn from what was previously overlooked or beyond our habitual field of view. In this way revealed forms become attitudes, bridging the gap between the unnoticeable and the obvious, and the hidden struggles between defiance and resignation.
The three new artist's works commissioned for this edition of Testing Grounds share the quality of constructing a looking device - literally and metaphorically. So how does one achieve this kind of metonymic lens from the ephemeral time-based gestures inherent to live art and performance art?