This year since March, public programs have been canceled or postponed globally, leaving art in an imaginary state suspended between an archived press release and an anticipated event. The uncertainty is no news—art might have been always dwelling in such an imaginary sphere, nimbly inverting spatial relations and casually navigating its habitat on and beneath, or even in and out of, the surface. 

How is virus supposed to transplant itself into a liquefied cell whose membrane is mobile and discernment of othering/belonging questionable? How do we reconcile the geopolitical borders that are simultaneously dissolved and reinforced by viral transmission? Is art, however illusorily, a promising antidote to the fear of the unseen and unknown? The exhibition proposes a parallel between serial artistic practice in the age of digital connectedness and the pathogenic mechanism that dangerous viruses prey on and die out of. 

Spanning from emerging artists who embrace mobilized dwellings, both physically and virtually, to esteemed artist-educators who have been convening students from distinct cultures, this exhibition argues to foreground their technographic thinking in a multifaceted entwinement of personal narratives and an intermedial fable of our time. Emancipated from bodily fixations and intimacy, the tale further reaches for novelty in the eye of machines and sensory apparatuses.