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Shivering Sands: Chaos and Coincidences of History by Rohini Devasher
In 2013, during a residency at Metal Culture, Southend Devasher undertook a small expedition, to try to see the Maunsell Seaforts, which dot the coast of the UK. These huge metallic structures, relics of the second World War, were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were […] More information →
Re-Wildling by Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jacob Kudsk Steensen’s new artwork for Daata Editions, RE-WILDLING, deals with themes of extinction, preservation, and the emergence of new ecological realities and is inspired by the reintroduction of a previously extinct crow to the Big Island of Hawaii. Part of a year-long project for which Kudsk Steensen interviewed ornithologists about their last memories of […] More information →
Little Lo Ting by Zoe Marden
As said by Roland Barthes; “The best weapon against myth is perhaps to mythify it in its turn, and to produce an artificial myth” The Lo Ting is half human, half fish, a creature, a mermaid and the alleged ancestor of the people of Hong Kong. A myth co-oped by curator Oscar Ho in 1997, […] More information →
Feel My Metaverse by Keiken + George Jasper Stone
Feel My Metaverse is a new CGI film, Augmented Reality (AR) and immersive installation by Keiken + George Jasper Stone about a hyper-fictional future. It plays on our understanding of reality and the idea that we can create our own future through the stories we collectively believe in. The narrative of the film critiques the […] More information →
Eternal September I-VI by Rustan Söderling
The term Eternal September refers to the endless stream of new users flowing in and on-to the Internet since it first became available to the broader masses. As it turns out, somewhat surprisingly, we have been working on this vast, communal, prosthetic memory-mechanism since before we built stone circles or scribbled on cave walls. The […] More information →
Cadence and Village (Veil) by Melanie Manchot
Cadence This short video loop starts with a blank page. White. No orientation, scale, dimension. Until the edge of the frame is broken. From an aerial viewpoint we see a dark horse being led into what now reveals itself as a blank snowy landscape. Walking in a circle, it inscribes a trail of footprints into […] More information →