Critical research and artistic practice approaching rituals, drawn from alchemical and spiritual narrative, extreme selfmining for energy refinement, questioning commodification and quantification of the human by exploring the transcending bio-techno barrier
NEWS
EPHEMERAL premiered in the exhibition Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty curated by David Familian and presented at UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology.
The exhibition was on on view: August 24 – December 14, 2024
The Future Tense exhibition was part of the third regional collaboration in the PST ART: Art & Science Collide. PST ART is the largest art event in the United States and a landmark regional event in California, exploring the intersections of art and science.
work
The dominant attitude, manmade systems and structures we live by and have created, are founded on principle of control and extortion of material from a resource, thereby limiting creations of the unruly, the living, while depleting and distorting ecological systems. My interest lies in exploring the shift needed, while remaining critical of established metaphors that influence our thinking, creation and actions
Hege Tapio
2024