Room 13

The radical imagination that art developed throughout the 1990s was also applied to its own materiality. Ductile components, insubordinate bodies, and speculation with non-Euclidean geometric forms joined forces with a dismantling of traditional media, giving rise to undisciplined fields that escaped any attempts of critical categorization. 

In recent decades, the emergence of thinking about the performativity of things and object-oriented ontology has led to a rematerialization that is conceived as something non-anthropocentric, or as human residue after extinction. New materials have to do with new ecologies beyond industrial mass production, with other hierarchies and forms of relationship, with the foreign bodies of posthumanism, and with the radical imagination of organisms that come to abolish natural kingdoms and conventional scientific categories in a quantum reality. These anxieties also shed light on unknown territory for totemic, magical thinking, as well as on sci-fi narrative frameworks outside conventional methodologies of meaning.