Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?) | Flagship Exhibition

Kite will be showing her work, done in collaboration with Aljumaine Gayle, Nicholas Shapiro and Ladan Mohamed Siad, LA Birdwatchers, for the Vector Festival 2022 flagship edition, presented at Interaccess Gallery in Toronto, ON. 

The Vector Festival 2022 flagship exhibition, Machine Bodies (Is Cyborg Good or Evil?), focuses on the relationship between body and machine – its tensions, (in)compatibilities, liminal spaces, and byproducts. In this exhibition curated by Karina Iskandarsjah, works by Xuan Ye, Madeleine Lychek, and artist collective L.A. Birdwatchers (Suzanne Kite, Aljumaine Gayle, Nicholas Shapiro and Ladan Mohamed Siad) utilize this uneasy interaction between body and machine to draw attention to the body’s labor within capitalism, as well as racial bias in surveillance and censorship. The works take form as a motion-sensored sound installation, an animated visualization of biodata, and experiments in AI image-making. Expanding on Vector Festival’s 2022 theme – glitch – the artists treat abstraction and a/synchronization as tools to question our digital safety and autonomy.

Location:
InterAccess
950 Dupont St., Unit 1.
Toronto ON M6H 1Z2


For more information, please visit the Vector Festival website here.

Fiber of My Being at Halles New York

Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 30th 6 – 8pm

Halles New York
547 West 20th Street, NY 10011, USA

Hales is delighted to announce Fiber of my being, a group exhibition in New York which brings together seven interdisciplinary artists: Teresa Baker, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Kite, Senzeni Marasela, Hardeep Pandhal, LJ Roberts and Phyllis Yao. The exhibition showcases the strand of their practice that explores fiber as a medium for critical and exploratory possibility. 

In both figuration and abstraction, the works investigate the language of textiles to communicate personal, historic, and cultural connections to identity, through materiality, texture and touch.  Material hybridity is found in the respective practices and works — combining and recontextualising the vocabularies of painting, drawing and performance through fiber making. Fiber is used as an expressive medium to embrace contemporary themes and techniques whilst drawing upon legacies and rich traditions. 

For more information, please visit the Halles website here.