Artists: Valentinas Klimašauskas (in collaboration with Gailė Pranckūnaitė, Yorgia Karidi, Nick Bastis, Dorota Gaweda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Kaspars Groshevs, Pakui Hardware, Georges Jacotey, Mikko Kuorinki, Karl Larsson, Fritz Laszlo Weber, Nicholas Matranga, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Michael Portnoy, Iza Tarasewicz, Saemundur Thor Helgason)
Exhibition title: A Hat Trick Or A Theory Of The Plankton
Venue: Podium, Oslo, Norway
Date: February 26 – March 6, 2016
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Podium, Oslo
An exhibition by Valentinas Klimašauskas in collaboration with Gailė Pranckūnaitė (design) and Yorgia Karidi (soundtrack) with contributions by Nick Bastis, Dorota Gaweda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Kaspars Groshevs, Pakui Hardware, Georges Jacotey, Mikko Kuorinki, Karl Larsson, Fritz Laszlo Weber, Nicholas Matranga, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Michael Portnoy, Iza Tarasewicz, Saemundur Thor Helgason, and, possibly, you.
Do you know what the paradox of the plankton is? In aquatic biology, the paradox of the plankton describes the situation in which a limited range of resources supports an unexpectedly wide range of plankton species. This theory apparently disregards the competitive exclusion principle. It holds that when two species compete for the same resource, one will be driven to extinction. Similarly, this exhibition is driven not by a single concept but by various interests, beliefs, fields, vectors, and more.
