CCA is pleased to invite you to the opening of Tiny deaths: glitches, spells, interruptions, an exhibition that features works by Zach Blas, Anne de Vries, Dave Loder, Conor McFeely, and belit sağ that consider the power of the interruptive moment.

Tiny deaths explores how these moments – often classified as flaws, accidents or errors – can be activated as points of reference and resistance. Its title derives from Paul Virilio’s definition of ‘picnolepsy’, the ‘epileptic’ lapses generated by the oscillation between consciousness and unconsciousness, and the compensatory impulse to smooth over these ruptures. Using this metaphor of bodily difference, Tiny deaths examines contemporary methods used to re-attribute value to absence or interruption, and the social and political implications of these actions.

The exhibition features practices that variously connect to these ideas, with works that employ the aesthetics of interference (Dave Loder) and question how images of violence shape perceptions of reality (belit sağ). Tiny deaths also includes works that present an idealised communal experience of seamless totality (Anne de Vries), tactics to interrupt the technological gaze and exercise a politics of escape (Zach Blas), and moments of altered consciousness (Conor McFeely).

Tiny deaths: glitches, spells, interruptions opens on Saturday 18 March at 7pm. Preceding the exhibition opening, please join us from 4pm to 6pm for the next CCA booksvscigarettes reading group event, where we’ll be reading Annemarie Mol’s 1985 essay Who knows what a woman is… For more information please see our website. The exhibition and reading group event are free and all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information about the artists please see our website. This exhibition is generously supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.