Exhibited at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Emergency Ex (2022) by Catinca Malaimare is an intimate encounter between human bodies and machines. In a choreography of movement, sound and light, human and non-human actors become equal collaborators in creating a sensuous and otherworldly environment. Suggesting not just a technical, but an affective codependency between us and our screens, Emergency Ex conjures a not-so-distant future where face and interface have become indistinguishable. Accompanying the film is a text written by Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns, intended as an aid to the installation, as an explanation it intentionally fails.
With the occasion of the exhibition, the opening dinner masquerades as an Eucharist or a Communion table, reflecting the artist’s interest in anthropomorphic bodies becoming duplicates without a human corporeality. Preceding the Christmas period, artisanal Romanian bread and wine served as a symbolic representation of the flesh and blood of Jesus, intermingled until the boundaries between human and machine have been diluted beyond our ability to taste.
Exhibited at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Emergency Ex (2022) by Catinca Malaimare is an intimate encounter between human bodies and machines. In a choreography of movement, sound and light, human and non-human actors become equal collaborators in creating a sensuous and otherworldly environment. Suggesting not just a technical, but an affective codependency between us and our screens, Emergency Ex conjures a not-so-distant future where face and interface have become indistinguishable. Accompanying the film is a text written by Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns, intended as an aid to the installation, as an explanation it intentionally fails.
With the occasion of the exhibition, the opening dinner masquerades as an Eucharist or a Communion table, reflecting the artist’s interest in anthropomorphic bodies becoming duplicates without a human corporeality. Preceding the Christmas period, artisanal Romanian bread and wine served as a symbolic representation of the flesh and blood of Jesus, intermingled until the boundaries between human and machine have been diluted beyond our ability to taste.