OFLUXO

The Cyborgian Swamp Thang was dissected. Part I of the exhibition (Dissecting the Cyborgian Swamp Thang, January 15- February 18, 2021) focused on the organistic relationships between nature, landscapes, and networked systems. This exhibition now attends to the post-human presence that is embodied, fluid, and gooey within the organistic materiality of the present moment; while also considering the machine-tool –the car, the city, the infrastructure – that the swamp thang finds itself bobbing up and down within, floating in its shift and drift. The German word “untergang” can simultaneously suggest both decadence and decline. The current l’informe, posed by the pre-Enlightenment usage of the word organ, and our present interstitial boundaries between form and machine, presents both an orgyastic flash and a sobering ennui. Solidity has been phased out, replaced with the exhilarating yet dreadful sublime of dematerialization, abjection, and the limbo wavepool of endless boundary confusion.   

Super Duchess now presents Part II of our two part exhibition, Cyborgian Swamp Thang II: or, A Post-Human/Machine Untergang, featuring the works of Julia Colavita, Anthony Hawley, Julian Kreimer, Heather Leigh McPherson, Katie Tiley, and Jonathan Torres.