Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen b. 1981

Cohen and Van Balen's practice could be thought of as ‘situated’, where the making of the work is performed within particular networks. The extraction of minerals has been a long-standing interest, followed by the many forms of reality generated by the gambling industry. Animal bodies (human or otherwise) are a recurring consideration; in particular how these are shaped by the situations in which they operate. Rehearsals seem to return as well.

Taking place in the realms of artistic research, production, and presentation and reaching into our global systems of production, mechanization, and investment, their investigations postulate relationships between raw materials, human and animal labor, capital, extraction, industrial production, colonial inheritance, and scientific innovation. The constellations that they propose—enacted in the many works themselves, as well as in their display—afforded an intriguing account of the infrastructures of uncertainty.