Photo credits: Stefanie Hessler, photo by William Laird. Shu Lea Cheang, photo by Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Whit Pow, photo by Dylan Kenseth. Design: Lauretta Kubbi/Kunsthall Trondheim. Logo design by NODE Berlin Oslo
Welcome to an online artist talk series, in connection to the exhibition and project Attention After Technology, a series that aims to give more insight into the two-year-long project via conversations between the participating artists and project partners. This time, artist Shu Lea Cheang will be in conversation with Stefanie Hessler (Swiss Institute New York) and the artist’s project advisor Whit Pow.
The conversation will be held in English, with a duration of 40 minutes. It will be possible for the audience to ask questions in the last 10 minutes.
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The exhibition and project Attention After Technology explores the role of algorithms today, the ways in which they affect us, and how we could imagine them otherwise, through newly commissioned works by seven international artists: biarritzzz (Brazil), Vivian Caccuri (Brazil), Shu Lea Cheang (USA/Taiwan), Kyriaki Goni (Greece), CUSS Group (South Africa), Femke Herregraven (Netherlands) and Berenice Olmedo (Mexico).
Shu Lea Cheang (she/her) is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending gender-hacking practices, and is based in Paris. As a net art pioneer, her BRANDON (1998-99) was the first web art commissioned and collected by New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Cheang represented Taiwan with 3x3x6, a mixed media installation at the Venice Biennale 2019. She recently released her 4th feature film, UKI.
Stefanie Hessler (she/her) is a curator, writer, editor, and current Director of Swiss Institute (SI), an independent non-profit contemporary art institution in New York. At SI, she and the team are centering environmental consciousness in all facets of the institution, ranging from changes that reduce the organization's carbon footprint to its artistic programming, with the understanding that this process is imperfect but urgent.
Whit Pow (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their book project, People Orientations: Toward a Transgender Video Game and Software History, looks at the intersection of queer and trans medical history, surveillance, and policy with computer and video game history.
The online talk series is a collaboration with Tropical Papers’ [SUNDAY BRUNCH]. Intended as an intersectional laboratory, [SUNDAY BRUNCH] is an online meeting place where we are invited to listen, observe, share and enjoy a sensitive experience through images, poetry, sound, cooking and dancing.
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Overview talks
16.11.2023 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
Stefanie Hessler (Swiss Institute) with artist Shu Lea Cheang and her project advisor Whit Pow
03.12.23 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
Lars Bang Larsen (Art Hub Copenhagen) with the artist collective CUSS Group
28.01.24 (12 pm-12.40 pm EST / 6 pm-6.40 pm CET)
María Inés Rodríguez (Tropical Papers) with artist biarritzzz
29.02.24 (12.30 pm-1.10 pm EST / 6.30 pm-7.10 pm CET)
iLiana Fokianaki (State of Concept Athens) with artist Kyriaki Goni
Project Coordinator: Kunsthall Trondheim
The project is led by: Kunsthall Trondheim and Swiss Institute New York
Project Partners: Art Hub Copenhagen, Tropical Papers and State of Concept Athens
Associated Partners: The Friends of Attention, D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University), Justin Smith-Ruiu (Université de Paris), and the Swiss Institute New York
Co-funded by the European Union
Artist advisors: Pedro Victor Brandão, Delinda Collier, Kate Crawford, Flavia Dzodan, Whit Pow, Joana Souza
Project ambassador Trondheim: Gulabuddin Sukhanwar
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim is additionally supported by SpareBank 1 SMN, Arts and Culture Norway, The Fritt Ord Foundation, Mondriaan Fund and IDM Dispenser.