SSALIVA & XAVIER MARY / DAISYWORLD OF MORDOR LAND

Duo project, ssaliva & Xavier Mary, Komplot, Bruxelles, 2016

Artworks by ssaliva & Xavier Mary  / 8’50’’ Dolby Digital Plus (5.1) sound track by ssaliva

Photo credit Ludovic Beillard

‘Daisyworld’ is a planet made of white and black daisies. Black daisies absorb energy and create more heat, allowing the white ones to blossom, until they are the only ones on the planet. White daisies reject the energy and cool down the globe, allowing the black ones to blossom until they are the only ones and so on. This planet is an illustration of Gaia's hypothesis: what once appears to be chaos, might actually be natural changes making the planet functional on a delicate balance.

François Boulanger (ssaliva) and Xavier Mary were both born in Liège in the 80's and have been active in their domain (music/sculpture) for more than 10 years. Their work triggers our sensorial relations to the techno-biosphere. They understood how to find beauty in a chaotic nature, where our senses got confused, disorienting us in a magical realism. Today's ambient darkness is turning the planet into a Mordorland and the last bits of hope might be in the belief, that we live in a functioning chaos, where anything that fades away is for a new thing to blossom.

Text by Benjamin Munix

SSALIVA BY EDITION SOCIÉTÉ / 4S4

Artwork by ssaliva and Xavier Mary

Mastered by Mike Grinser, Dubplates & Mastering

released September 15, 2016

180g vinyl w/ printed innersleeve

Limited edition of 300

XO OF EXCESS

ExoExo, Paris, 2016

Art works  and installations by ssaliva & Xavier Mary

Including XO of exceSS special edition fluo green epoxy usb sticks

Released by Xavier Mary / incorporing XO of exceSS  wave audio file 5'25'' and 3 jpg. images by ssaliva

Live performances by :

ssaliva (BE) ___live

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Early Holography (FR)___live

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AllPass (FR)____live

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Hasar de Doria (FR)___live

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'Xo of excess', is a special 'Day/Night Rave' curated by Diesel project space @ Exo Exo, in which visitors are into collapsing boundaries - between the real and the virtual, the organic and synthetic, the gallery and the club.

'xo of excess' is a sort of speculative fiction in sound and image, dealing with the dawning of the Anthropocene, defined by scholars as the epoch of humankind.

Between the dream of 'low carbon future' & other 'theories of catastrophism', what is the future of the next generation? Subsumed into the digital realm, have we reached hyperreality yet?

From these questions, the exhibition will present an ostentatious display of installations & live performances, a tracking list about the issue of identity in an economy of excess, leading us to the question of life and death in a world built by man and technology.