Motional and Motionless
You Jin & Zhang Yingnan
AYE Gallery
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Shang Liang: “New Order”
MadeIn Gallery
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Ching Chin Wai
Liquefied Sunshine I South Ho Siu Nam: Force Majeure
Blindspot Gallery
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2018 Art Taipei
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Light, Dark, Other: Mit Jai Inn solo Exhibition
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Extending Space – 2018 Dongguan sculpture and Installation Art Festival
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Ariel Hassan
TRAGEDY OF EQUALITY / ACT 1:
—HEAD SHAVING BATTLE, Tokyo!
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Welcome to Geumhyung Jeong’s ‘Spa & Beauty Berlin’
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Will we survive in the brave new world, as narrated by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 dystopian science fiction, in which man completely surrenders himself to technology? Michael Bess, scholar and historian of science predicts, “We may survive, but we may not survive as something we recognize.”
A ritual as a sort of psychospiritual stabilizer, an internalized metronome for life in transcendence, is transformative in its very transitive transitoriness. In the process, you go somewhere and somelsewhere elastically, even a tiny bit. While inhabiting a ritual, one lives in and through time, via an odd interval sliced open and stitched back together.
The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress.
