{"id":610473,"date":"2026-09-24T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610473\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:46:10","slug":"shimmer-dreaming-the-posthuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610473\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

This thought-provoking exhibition at the Frist Art Museum explores human interconnectedness with the more-than-human world. <\/p>\n


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\"Shimmer:
\n Saya Woolfalk.\u00a0Floating World of the Cloud Quilt\u00a0(installation view), 2022.\u00a0Three-channel video projection, natural and synthetic fibers, digitally printed vinyl flooring, plastic, paint, paper, beads, notions, and gel medium; 406\u00a0\u00d7\u00a072\u2013144 (variable)\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0108 in. Courtesy of the artist.\u00a0Image courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. \u00a9 Saya Woolfalk. Photo: Etienne Frossard<\/p>\n

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman<\/a>\u00a0features 17 artists working with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself.\u00a0Using tools such as digital animation, augmented and virtual reality, and motion capture and generative software, artists Ian Cheng, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marguerite Humeau, Jos\u00e8fa Ntjam, Jacolby Satterwhite, Saya Woolfalk, and others challenge the view that human exceptionalism allows us to ignore the need to care for the more-than-human world. Like the surrealists, these artists tap into the transformative agency of the marvelous, the uncanny, and the unpredictable. In their fluid and floating creations, images morph, flicker, and dance, forming psychologically charged archetypes within a new collective unconscious.<\/p>\n

While providing otherworldly moments of awe and enchantment, the exhibition is centered on real-world disciplines. The first section, taking a biological and ecological perspective, focuses on such subjects as extinction, evolution, and interspecies entanglement. The second, relating to psychology, includes playful stories of metamorphosis. In this enchanted realm, people become microbes and slime, dreams become poetry, and robots become furious dancers, countering the pain of the world with vitality and joy. The third relates to ontology \u2014 the philosophy of being. Bridging ancestral and contemporary belief systems, particularly those beyond modern Western traditions, artists in this section employ new technologies to reawaken humanity\u2019s sense of interconnectedness with the earth.<\/p>\n

Organized by Frist Art Museum Chief Curator Mark Scala.<\/p>\n

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman is on view from September 25 through January 3, 2027, at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

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