Celebrate the opening of the third quarter our fiftieth-anniversary artistic program. Three new shows at the Insitute of Modern Art navigate psychological philosophy, hybridisation of the human and the machine, and cyberfeminism.
Desire Is a Machine, curated by IMA Adjunct Curator Stephanie Berlangieri
'Desire Is a Machine' brings together artists who understand desire not as a lack to be fulfilled but as a generative, machinic force coursing through all life. The artists engage with the legacy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theory of 'schizoanalysis' by reorienting how mental health is understood, foregrounding connections between living beings, technologies and other entities, and conceptualising the flows of capital and information. The exhibition shifts focus from the individual psyche to the collective and relational, affirming desire’s capacity to disrupt, reimagine, and reorganise the world.
Max Athans: Breathform
2025 recipient of the Jeremy Hynes Award, Max Athans will present their first institutional show 'Breathform' at the Institute of Modern Art this quarter. Confusing and uncanny, intriguing and repellent, Max Athans‘ 3D-printed sound sculptures hybridise human and animal, doll and machine, in ways that are intriguing and repellent.
Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer's Sphere
The IMA screening room will host Ayoung Kim's cyberfeminist multi-dimensional speculative fiction, 'Delivery Dancer's Sphere'. Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the gig economy and platform labour intensified in South Korea, the video probes the accelerationist urge for body and time optimisation. The video centres on two female drivers, Ernst Mo and En Storm who elegantly navigate their never-ending delivery work under the control of a master algorithm called Dancemaster. Blending 3D animation with live-action sequences, Kim creates a hyperreality that challenges the perceived 'truths' of this world.
Image: Pedro França and Ueinzz Theatre Company 'Archichroma (New Romanticisms for Somber Times)' 2017.
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