William Downs, Sasha Fishman, Fox Hysen, Andy Ralph, Hannah Rowan, Tsai-Ling Tseng
At Below Grand, New York, US
February 26 — March 26, 2022
“We Must practice ‘riding on the dynamic of disaster’.”- Franco Bifo Berardi, The Third Unconscious “Surf the Doom” – A t-shirt seen in Las Vegas
“At the end of the pandemic, at the end of the long period of isolation, people may simply continue to sink into the eternal nothingness of virtual connection, of distancing and techno-totalitarian integration. This is probable. But we should not be confined to the probable. We should discover the possibility that is hidden in the present. After months of constant online connectivity, people might come out of their houses and apartments looking for conjunctions. A movement of solidarity and tenderness can arise, leading people towards an emancipation from connective dictatorship. We have to imagine and to create this movement of caressing, a reinvention of eros in the age of mandatory distancing. Death is back at the centre of the landscape: that long-denied mortality, which makes humans alive.” – Franco Bifo Berardi, The Third Unconscious