2024
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Current Does Not Mean New: Chronicles of Online Reincarnations taps into terrains of selfhood online, of avatars, of play pretend, of being able to archive and hyper-curate. The ideas pertaining to self-expression are not new, yet their format continues evolving, our iterations growing. Through digital practices and mixed media, the exhibition aims to uncover facets of how we operate online and its influence on our AFK self.
The invasive reliance on digital tools in everyday life creates a normalcy. Often, we dismiss the need to trace the exploitative and technocratic tendencies reproduced within technological innovation, forgetting their infections on tools for self-expression which the internet claims to facilitate.
In the latent space of internet hubs, how does self-expression fit within the secrecy, speculative, and at times exclusionary state of the internet?
Through collective gathering, both online and offline, the exhibition aims to demonstrate ongoing research of self. Curated by Yanti Peng and featuring Jesse Vega, Sinta Wijaya, Yanti Peng and Zachariah Lee, together they wade through the mobile waves of technology, shapeshifting with their communal identity and exploring what it means to reincarnate online.
Documentation by Jesse Vega.
visual novel, multimedia animation
4:44 minutes · 1784 × 1338 px
crystal glass bead, wire, charms
130 × 70 cm
