Cosmotechnics

8 Nov 2024-26 Jan 2025

PV 7 Nov 2024, 6-8pm

Overview

Cosmotechnics explores the relationship between culture and technology through the lens of three Latin American artists. Atractor Studio, Patricia Domínguez and Rebeca Romero challenge the idea that technology is the same everywhere and across all cultures. Their artworks reveal how local ways of thinking and sensing can lead to new ways of embracing art and culture and offer multiple perspectives of technology.

Curated by FACT's 2024 Curator-in-Residence, Beatrice Zaidenberg, each artwork becomes a portal to rethink our relationship with technology, using plants as a guide.

Atractor Studio's installation highlights industrial agriculture's social and ecological impact in Colombia. Sound communicates the damage to soil and local communities to emphasise the importance of human and plant resistance to modern farming. Patricia Domínguez explores the energy that connects all living things and objects on earth, harnessing plant consciousness to think beyond the limits of what humans can scientifically and spiritually perceive and understand. A newly commissioned installation by Rebeca Romero features a futuristic sculpture that acts as a device to link together ancient and contemporary technology knowledge systems.

In Cosmotechnics, technology becomes an ally for resistance, resilience and growth. The artworks invert power structures to allow collective and self-empowering technologies to thrive.