New Suns

Where: Artengine
When: 11:00-22:00



Artists:
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
WhiteFeather Hunter
Seth Thomson
Emily Pelstring and Naomi Okabe
Kemi Craig
Eva Grant
Melanie Barnett and Kriss Li
Soundscape by Ben Globerman


New Suns is the immersive outcome of Artengine’s Worldbuilding Lab, a collaborative space where artists and thinkers crafted a speculative future beyond ecological collapse and societal fragmentation. In this imagined world, humanity has evolved, through adaptation, hybridity, and deep relationality, into something fluid, interconnected, and symbiotic with the more-than-human world.

Emerging from the ashes of extractive systems and neoliberal ideologies, the works in this exhibition depict cryogenic metamorphoses, amphibious human-animal hybrids, memory-sharing networks, and ritualistic biotechnologies. Here, rest and grief are tools of resistance, and identity is no longer singular, but part of a vast, living continuum.

Far from dystopia or utopia, New Suns is a provocation: what new worlds can we imagine together? And what might we need to become to live in them?

Presented by Artengine


Emily Pelstring & Naomi Okabe




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