Angela Su’s work Cosmic Call (2019) will be on view in “Cosmos Falling” at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA), Harvard University, USA.
“Cosmos Falling includes works by Xin Liu, (The White Stone, 2021); Lawrence Lek (Geomancer, 2017); Yuyan Wang (The Moon Also Rises, 2023); and Angela Su (Cosmic Call, 2019), which employ pseudo-documentary and speculative fiction as filmic techniques to re-animate the afterlives of technical objects, while also questioning an aesthetics of failure that surrounds the cosmic, technological frontier. From missiles, rockets, comets, satellites, to artificial moons, each narrates what has been left in their wake and what emerges in the terrestrial ruin. Bordering on science fiction with Sinofuturist underpinnings that push beyond cyberpunk tropes, these works also enact a kind of embodied performativity between various bodies and subjectivities that reflect a reverse trajectory: falling from the heavens, cosmic frontier, lower orbit, sky, back to earth.
” – CCVA
Venue: Intermedia Gallery, Level-1 , Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States)
Curator: Danni Shen (Senior Curatorial Assistant of CCVA)