“Popular Creatures” Installation view at Artspace Boan © Artspace Boan
From July 5 to 23, Artspace Boan is pleased to present Popular Creatures by Unmake Lab.
Unmake Lab deals with the perception of machines through irony, allegory, and humor. This exhibition juxtaposes the predictability of artificial intelligence with the disastrous site of the ‘burnt mountain’. It also uses the fable tradition of satirizing humans through animals to tell the story of mechanical action. For example, the exhibition uses the form of spodomancy, which involves divination through ashes or burned objects, to oracularly depict artificial intelligence inscribing meaningless language on burned wood. In this way, it uses various technologies as critical observation techniques for ecological crises to raise questions in our time.
The exhibition at Artspace Boan shows the artists’ awareness of biology, ecology, and contemporary mechanical work.
