MutualArt | We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now

Honor Fraser, Mutual Art, Giugno 16, 2023

Honor Fraser is pleased to present We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now, a group exhibition that charts the blurry boundaries between human networks, ecological systems, and the technologies that give form to our “man-made” geological epoch. A love letter to a world in revolt, and to those who join in solidarity with our planet’s outrage, the exhibition features twenty-two artists who trouble enshrined notions of anthropocentrism while navigating the social, spiritual, and technological margins of the ecosystems they operate within. Curated by gallery director, Jamison Edgar, We Are They traces “the glitch” across digital, environmental, and philosophical habitats—deepening ongoing debates of human/animal consciousness, globalization, migration, resource extraction, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 16 from 6pm to 8pm.

 

The exhibition’s title borrows language from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and weaves her now infamous theories of human/machine entanglement within a cosmology of indigenous, queer/trans, Black feminist, and more-than-human knowledge practices. “The glitch,” which is frequently evoked to imply an unexpected error in the professions of computer science, computation, and engineering, first gained mass popularity during the 1960’s space race, when physicists and federal administrators were reckoning with the science fueled fantasies of separating human beings from the Earth’s orbit. The exhibition extenuates these extraterrestrial origins but forgoes the word’s colloquial comparisons with error to amass a roster of artists who instead use the glitch to subvert and decenter human ego within social and ecological hierarchies.

 

Artists on show