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“Anoxic Memory,” a show by Maria Simmons, maker of “art that eats itself,” opens at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) in Bowmanville, Ontario (CA). Foregrounding their interest in peatlands, the Canadian artist continues to bring the bog into the white cube, here recreating its three strata—anoxic, oxic, atmospheric—vertically. One on floor Simmons evokes “the anaerobic underbellies of Canadian peatlands” in fermentation jugs, on another they fashion “sculptural ponds of brine” (image).
www.grindruberairbnb.exposed, Canadian artist Jonathan Chomko’s performance exploring how apps choreograph bodies, premieres at Tangente Montreal. Responding to the ways popular digital services guide movement, a troupe of participants walk, gesture, and synchronize themselves in response to web app prompts. Staged in private during the pandemic (image, 2020), the performance marks the first time Chomko’s glued-to-their-phone “atomized actors acting as one” pace and pivot in front of an audience.
The Lustenau (AT) art space DOCK 20 celebrates the videogame interventions of Austrian “pseudo-Marxist media guerilla” Total Refusal in an immersive solo exhibition. Known for appropriating blockbuster titles for cultural critique and counter narratives, the machinima collective stages three works that deal with sleep, work, and recreation. Their newest piece, Club Stahlbad (2023, image), is a Cyberpunk 2077 mod that explores incomputable human sensations like intoxication and euphoria.
“Being critical of extractive and exploitative technology is optimism. Saying that new tech shouldn’t happen at the expense of the vulnerable is an optimistic belief. Those who perpetuate the myth that criticism is anti-tech are the cynics.”
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