Refiguring Binaries
@ Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, November 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
Curator Kelani Nichole in person
In recent years, the contours of a new contemporary art movement have begun to emerge, forged in reaction to the ideologies of Silicon Valley, the platforming and globalization of culture, and technologies of power like artificial intelligence, photorealistic computer-generated images, and virtual and augmented reality. These “Simulists” simultaneously embrace and subvert technology as their means of interrogation—expressing humanist, nonbinary, and decolonized futures. Curated by Kelani Nichole and featuring works by Morehshin Allahyari, Faith Holland, Eva Papamargariti, Lorna Mills, LaTurbo Avedon, Tabita Rezaire, Meriem Bennani, Lu Yang, and SAIC faculty member Claudia Hart, this program explores identity, the body, and the politics of technology. Virtual space is inhabited with queer bodies and cultural identity is reclaimed through subversive uses of technology. The boundaries of technology and the body are blurred, as are the lines between author, image, and copy. Possible futures emerge as the layers of simulation that mediate contemporary culture are revealed.
2015–18, USA/Canada/China/South Africa/United Kingdom, multiple formats, ca 60 min + discussion.
Kelani Nichole is a design strategist and exhibition maker based in New York City. Nichole is director of the Current Museum of Art, a cooperative collection of contemporary media art that examines technology’s impact on the human condition. She is the founder and owner of TRANSFER an experimental gallery supporting artists with exhibitions of challenging variable media formats. Since 2016, TRANSFER Gallery in Brooklyn has been dedicated to women refiguring technology through exhibition and curation.
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Tags: Chicago, Claudia Hart, Conversations At The Edge, Eva Papamargariti, Faith Holland, Kelani Nichole, LaTurbo Avedon, Loop, Lorna Mills, Lu Yang, Meriem Bennani, Morehshin Allahyari, Refiguring Binaries, Tabita Rezaire
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