Part I: reading
Reading of a text I composed assembling my own writings together with the following texts: Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952 (borrowed from Rib’s library); La Raza Cosmica - the cosmic race (1925); and The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages
18 minutes
2023

Modernism Without Modernity is an equal parts research, curatorial, and production based project which took place at An Other World's residency program titled Traversals. Practically speaking the project was organized in 3 stages, a reading, a screening, and an exhibition including sculpture assemblages, cyanotypes, and a window intervention.

Modernity can be broadly understood as the “western project of civilisation”. It has long been concerned with the reproduction of the productive body, atomisation, and the creation of a consumerist society. Therefore, the project is born out of a need for alternative modes of being which exist in the paradigm of modernism without embodying modernity.

Part II: screening
A Tropics Expanded
Film by Kent Chan
24' minutes
2020

Part III: exhibition
Modernity Without Modernism
made in collaboration with Hedvig Koertz
2023