Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI explored the intersections of artificial intelligence, water justice, and art among others through sensitive, immersive works by Geneva based artist Céline Ducret and San Francisco based artist Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩.
In curator Amy Kisch’s words:
Kristiana Chan’s莊礼恩 the stone in your mouth/the flesh in my teeth brought the intelligence and resilience of the intertidal zone into the room with a force that was at once sensory and deeply political. Watching visitors reach toward those forms and then reconsider was one of the great pleasures of this exhibition.
Céline Ducret’s three works together created a kind of atmosphere in the space: the lace panels inviting each viewer to construct their own relationship to landscape; the porcelain vessels of sweet woodruff asking us quietly to digest and act; and the video moving through water in all its states as a living presence. The performative reading with herbal tea on April 19 was one of the most quietly radical moments of the entire series.
The program also featured an audio-visual performance by multimedia artist Angy He, drawing on real-time water data at the opening, and a poetic live reading by former San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck at the closing.
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