“We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.” – Donna Haraway
This exhibition is concerned with the body and the glitch, and with the point at which one begins to fracture into the other.
B*O/D&Y explores the entanglement of body and glitch through contemporary art practices, focusing on moments when systems cease to operate in seamless continuity.
Within this framework, the body is understood as more than the human form. It extends into environmental and ecological systems, mechanical infrastructures, and social structures of power. The body is both material presence and constructed subject, shaped and regulated through processes of discipline, organisation, and control.
The glitch refers to interruptions within these systems. It appears as error, repetition, delay, or breakdown, moments when expected function is suspended or diverted. Rather than being understood as failure, these moments reveal thresholds within systems, exposing their limits, tensions, and points of collapse.
The exhibition turns toward what such disruptions make visible. Fragmentation, malfunction, looping, and stasis become sites of attention, where systems begin to behave differently and reveal alternative logics of structure and time.
These conditions are not resolved or corrected. Instead, they are sustained, repeated, and allowed to persist. Instability becomes rhythmic. Incompletion begins to form structure. Within this space, art is approached as a site where things are permitted not to fully resolve.
CURATORIAL APPROACH:
B*O/D&Y is developed as a research-led curatorial exhibition, structured as an inquiry into how bodies and systems fail, loop, interrupt, and reorganise. Works are not treated as isolated objects, but as part of a relational field of tensions and conceptual resonances.
Selection is reviewed by a 9-member interdisciplinary jury spanning performance art, neuroscience, queer studies, sociology, creative technology, new media art, and contemporary art criticism. This multi-perspectival framework prioritises conceptual clarity, critical depth, and contribution to the exhibition’s broader inquiry, rather than medium or production value.
Curatorial decisions emerge through dialogue between material practice, theoretical reflection, and spatial composition, with emphasis on how works coexist, interfere, and generate meaning through proximity.
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