‘Music as Image’

9 September - 22 October 2022

“Music and visual art are deeply connected. The exhibition ‘Music as Image’ seeks to elucidate the role of music in adding interpretative and experiential content to visual art, and conversely, the role of imagery in expanding interpretations and experiences of music.”

Artists

Lewis Gittus

Lucreccia Quintanilla

Ilmar Taimre

Masato Takasaka

Karina Utomo

Justene Williams

Curated by Cūrā8

Mortal Voice is a video work conceived and produced for Project 8 Gallery with Cūrā8 in 2022.

This digital apparition is currently showing at Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea as part of Watch and Chill 3.0

‘Streaming Suspense’. 12 April — 23 July 2023.

“Under the theme of suspense as a method of storytelling and imagining, Watch and Chill streams works from 23 artists in different regions, while simultaneously showcasing them in physical spaces as internationally traveling exhibitions.

The contents for both the online platform and the offline exhibition experiment with the psyche of the uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, mutable bodies, and contemporary implications. They are organized under five sub-topics: “Landscape under Moonlight,” “Assembly of Evidence,” “Mutable Corpus,” “Performance of the Undead,” and “Post-dystopian Worldbuilding.”

Following its offline exhibition at MMCA Seoul, Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense is scheduled to open at the end of April at TONO Festival in Mexico City, in November at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and in March of next year at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The art streaming platform Watch and Chill will remain available until the final touring program concludes in April 2024.”*

Special thanks to NGV curators Timothy Moore & Amita Kirpalani for including Mortal Voice into ‘Streaming Suspense’.

*quoted text via e-flux.

Artists: Meriem Bennani, Pia Borg, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra), Fyerool Darma, FHHH friends (Han Seungjae, Han Yangkyu, Yoon Hanjin), Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Chitra Ganesh, Nic Hamilton, Kwon Hayoun, Jang Minseung, Jung Jaekyung, siren eun young jung, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Liang Luscombe, Garush Melkonyan, Alison Nguyen, Park Chan-kyong, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhte, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8.

IN THE RUINS I SEE THE FUTURE

at Incinerator Gallery

12 May - 9 July 2023

“This exhibition offers a communal gaze that divines a future both seemingly doomed and auspiciously glimmering; it offers a thought-provoking and immersive experience that invites the viewer to reflect on the present, imagine new possibilities, and find hope amidst the ruins.”

Curated by Jake Adam Treacy

With artists:

Adina Kraus

Claire Bridge

Hugh Crowley

Joseph Häxan

Karina Utomo

Michael Jalaru Torres

Michael Needham

Ryan Andrew Lee

As part of Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense

18 - 30 April 2023

TONO (Centro de Cultura Digital, Av. Paseo de la Reforma S/N, Juárez, Miguel Hidalgo, 06600

Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico)

· Exhibition Description

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense consists of a subscription-based streaming platform and

offline presentations at the Hosting Parties, seeking to bring international art institutions, artists,

and audiences together around a carefully curated selection of moving image artworks. Exploring

ways in which methods of storytelling conjure immersion through the strategies of tension, the exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, mutable bodies, and related implications today.

As part of Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense, operated by the National Museum of Modern And Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea

17 November - 2 December 2023

Peabody Essex Museum

161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970, United States of America

· Exhibition Description

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense consists of a subscription-based streaming platform and offline presentations at the Hosting Parties, seeking to bring international art institutions, artists, and audiences together around a carefully curated selection of moving image artworks. Exploring ways in which methods of storytelling conjure immersion through the strategies of tension, the exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, mutable bodies, and related implications today.

As part of Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense, operated by the National Museum of Modern And Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea

Opens 23 March 2024

National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia

· Exhibition Description

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense consists of a subscription-based streaming platform and offline presentations at the Hosting Parties, seeking to bring international art institutions, artists, and audiences together around a carefully curated selection of moving image artworks. Exploring ways in which methods of storytelling conjure immersion through the strategies of tension, the exhibition presents works that experiment with the psyche of uncanny, abnormality, shape-shifting, mutable bodies, and related implications today.

Artists: Meriem Bennani, Pia Borg, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra), Fyerool Darma, FHHH friends (Han Seungjae, Han Yangkyu, Yoon Hanjin), Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Chitra Ganesh, Nic Hamilton, Kwon Hayoun, Jang Minseung, Jung Jaekyung, siren eun young jung, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Liang Luscombe, Garush Melkonyan, Alison Nguyen, Park Chan-Kyong, Luiz Roque, Jacolby Satterwhte, Skawennati, Lior Shamriz, Song Sanghee, Karina Utomo and Cūrā8.

Artists: Karina Utomo and Cūrā8

Video, 14'41'', 4K 3840 x 2160, ProRes422

Conceived, produced and created by Karina Utomo and Cūrā8

Original performance and voice improvisation: Karina Utomo

Audio mixing and sound design: Cūrā8 with Karina Utomo

Camera: James Wright

Audio recording: Mike Deslandes

Audio mastering: Don Bartley

Edition 1–3 + 2 AP with custom steel/TIG stainless steel welded SSD cases, die-cut motif, and hand-engraved 9 x 6 cm

Fabricator: Reg Davis

POA

Artist: KARINA UTOMO

Darah/Tulang, 2022

Fabricator: Reg Davis

Hand-formed aluminium rods, MIG welded, 130 x 80 cm

POA