Shu Lea Cheang will present her work with e-waste in the Kapelica Gallery, ...
Shu Lea Cheung will present her work with e-waste, compost and bio-orgasm in the Kapelica Gallery. In the presentation 'Compost Your Orgasm Trash', the name of which is taken from an interview with Matthew Fuller published in the magazine Mute 2012, the artist will present the group project 'UKI' (2009 - 2011), which is a sequel to the cult cyber-trash film 'IKU' , in which spent replicants are discarded
as e-waste and where the corporate porn company GENOM retreats into a bio-network composed of red blood cells that function as computing units. Shu Lea became famous with the project 'BRANDON' (1998 - 1999), the first online art project commissioned and also bought by the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In his works, Cheang surfs between gender fusion, cybercrime, sex replicants and corporate greed. Cheang is currently on a TAQ (Technologies au quotidien) residency in Paris, where she researches earthworms and their whirlwind love affair with compost.
Links:
http://www.mauvaiscontact.info/
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/compost-your-orgasm-trash
BRANDON http://brandon.guggenheim.org
ICU http://i-k-u.com
UKI http://u-k-i.co
La Graine et Le Compost http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/theme/taq8-la-graine-et-le-compost-par-refarm-the-city-greenrush
About the author:Shu Lea Cheang is a multimedia artist who undertakes many large-scale network installations and performances. Her work moves between media such as film, video, network installations and various interfaces that explore '…ethnic stereotyping, the nature and abundance of popular media, the power of institutions (especially governmental), race relations and sexual politics.'
In recent decades, she has developed into an important figure in the field of new media art and is one of the most important multimedia artists engaged in multidisciplinary studies. Her work is unique in allowing for viewer interaction. She is best known for her individual approach in the field of art and technology and her creative interweaving of social themes with artistic methods.
She often tackles sci-fi stories in which she travels between hard and soft, sex and politics, fiction and reality, fantasy and reality... Her work explores various themes and formats: Locker Baby Project' [about clone and human memory/emotion] (2001-2012, NTT [ICC], Palais de Tokyo, ELMCIP), ‘Agliomania [on speculative economics]‘ (2007-2011, PAN, Napoli, Wealth of Nations, Novi Sad), ‘MobiOpera‘ [on collective mobile film] (2007, Sundance New Frontier), 'Moving Forrest' [12-hour performance] (Transmediale.08, planned for London 2012). She launched and co-funded media communities such as Kingdom of Piracy (since 2001), TAKE2030 (since 2003), Mumbai Streaming Attack (since 2004), AKA the castle (2008), LaptopsRus (since 2009) and CycleX (2012).
Photo: Uplink, Tokyo
The project was supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, MOL - Department of Culture, ŠOU in Ljubljana
