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MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES: Four Artists Rewrite the Ruins of Tomorrow

An exhibition where apocalypse becomes methodology, Myths from Smoldering Skies gathers four artists who sculpt new mythologies from the debris of our saturated, unstable visual present.

The Bastard Fields: Most Dismal Swamp and the Cinematics of Erosion

A descent into Most Dismal Swamp’s unnervingly lucid universe, where bog bodies, AI ghosts, and collapsing realities merge into a hallucinatory critique of our algorithmic present.

Terraforming the Ruins: Adrián Villar Rojas and the Syntax of Our Disappearance

Adrián Villar Rojas’ apocalyptic garden overtakes Seoul’s Art Sonje Center in a feral, entropic installation that blurs AI, extinction, and ecology into an architecture of collapse.

the knower and the known are one. simple people imagine that they should see god, as if he stood there and they here. this is not so. god and i, we are one in knowledge

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Rituals for the Unclassified: Esteban Chanez’s The Beasts

Esteban Chanez's The Beasts reanimates medieval bestiaries into ritualistic ecosystems where fantasy, queerness, and clay converge into an unruly taxonomy of tenderness.

OXIS: 7000 Feet Below the Surface

Oxis writes oceanic electronica from the bedroom floor: tiny fish, big sea, no therapy, only loops. A hyper-sensitive control freak drowning her perfectionism in jagged, underwater pop.

DOOM: Inside Anne Imhof’s “House of Hope” through the eyes of Tess Petronio

In DOOM: House of Hope, Tess Petronio turns Anne Imhof’s epic performance into a raw visual diary—where the line between collaboration, friendship, and heartbreak dissolves into lived intimacy.

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst’s Starmirror: Toward an AI Liturgy of Collective Intelligence

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst reimagine AI as liturgy, turning the machinery of computation into a collective choir where humans, algorithms, and ancient song merge into shared intelligence.

Tender Apocalypses: Precious Okoyomon’s Worlds of Relation at the Edge of Collapse

Precious Okoyomon turns the apocalypse into a playground of care, fragility, and erotic rebirth — where plush bears and burning eyes reimagine love at the world’s softest ending.

Epitaph by Brendon Burton: The Afterlife of the American Landscape

In Epitaph, Brendon Burton transforms the ruins of rural America into sites of haunting intimacy—where memory, decay, and the spectral residue of history converge into something achingly alive.

AT LEAST ANGELS WATCH OVER ME

In Moscow’s fābula HQ, Natasha Perova reimagines Haraway’s cyborg through emotional transparency, digital exhaustion, and the quiet persistence of tenderness amid post-human debris.

Beyond the Lake by Carlos Folgoso Sueiro

Carlos Folgoso Sueiro’s Beyond the Lake resurrects Galicia’s drowned past, merging personal loss with ecological collapse to reveal a landscape haunted by both history and resilience.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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FROZEN FAITH: Inside the Strange World of Cryonic Suspension Through Murray Ballard’s Lens

Inside Murray Ballard’s The Prospect of Immortality, cryonics becomes more than science—it’s a faith, a freeze-framed testament to our tragic, beautiful refusal to die on time.

Igor Elukov’s “Book of Miracles” and the Theology of the Tundra

In the icy expanse of northern Russia, Igor Elukov’s Book of Miracles reimagines creation as collaboration with chaos—where theology, tundra, and technology collapse into one sublime uncertainty.

THE CLINIC OF THE UNBODIED: TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE AND CONTROL

GOD’S ARMY by Folkert de Jong at St. Chads

Crystalline Pyramids, Burnt Churches: Christelle Oyiri’s Berlin Diptych

Valeurs Refuge: Natacha Donzé’s Cycles of Love, Decay, and Digital Afterimages

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