_{^third_life}

Curated by Gitanjali Dang

Abhishek Hazra

Ajay Dhandre

Baiju Parthan

Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar

third_life is a device/ sftwre for disambiguation. it runs parallel to the matrices of meatspace and cyberspace. & is very much a corollary of the 2. once uploaded, third_life downloads the articulations of the artists and burns them into ze gallerie space using the apps of visual and discursive vocab. there aint no legrom for conceptual zipperheadin or straightjacketing :-P the curator, the game moderator (gm) if you like, is plain mploying de extant deep end of ze poool where the aazing confluence of ze virtual real (vr) and ze real occurs.

I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths. thats not theeis writer going yada yada, that be ze very prescient jorges luis borges envisionin A sphere of simultaneous choices. vr wid its trippy array of ceaseless choices, its general neverendingness and its no familiarity wid the fullstop is hank-erin for da couch.

ze bery protean and bery phildickian third_life teeteelates this, that, thee other and its 1^st and its 2^nd life. the exhibition has been titled aftr de massively-Multiplayer online role-playing game (mmorpg) called second life (sl). which btw appens to be a epitome of all things that comprise the metaverse jigsaw. second life & its Virtual cohortz are about more and more possibilities and choises made acessible. by doin its territorial pissin all over ze interSection of the reaal & the virtual, third_life 4grounds the frikkin fetzendramaturgie for what it is ;-)

book??

adios amigos!

(Excerpted from Gitanjali Dang's essay for the exhibition catalogue)