Quarter Three Exhibition Opening: Desire Is a Machine, Max Athans and Ayoung Kim
Celebrate the opening of the third quarter our fiftieth-anniversary artistic program. Their new shows navigate schizoanalysis, 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 filled but as a generative, machinic force coursing through all life. The artists engage with the legacy 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:
Confusing and uncanny, intriguing and repellent, Max Athans' 3D-printed sound sculptures hybridise human and animal, doll and machine. Winner of the 2025 Jeremy Hynes Award.
Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer's Sphere:
The screening room will host Ayoung Kim's cyberfeminist multidimensional 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 to optimise body, time and space.
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