Underground Art and Design

A look back at (Dis)consent: A Night of Performance and Interactive Installations, presented by @uaad.art and @mesh_art_center on Aug 2 💛

3 groups of artists brought together performance, interactive AI, and speculative ecology to examine agency and consent in systems where our choices are increasingly shaped by algorithms, interfaces, and institutions.

🪩 Katherine Helen Fisher @khfdance’s 𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙜 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙄𝙄 explored AI, audience data, and collective authorship. 🤳Mengna Da @yumedaaa’s 𝙎𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝙈𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝘿𝙊𝙉’𝙏 𝘾𝙍𝙔 turned the audience into operators of her own body, examining data extractivism and digital labor, with live music by Chienn Tai @desigh.llc. 🐝 Shihan Zhang @shihan.design’s 𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 reimagined pollination as embodied labor in a speculative post-ecological future, with movement performance by @dddyiliny.

The evening concluded with a conversation on authorship, desire, play, and algorithmic control, moderated by @_paigek, co-founder of MESH_Arts.

Curated by Amy Xiaofan Jiang @amyjiang517

Artists:
Katherine Helen Fisher w/ Shimmy Boyle @classicshimmy, Hyperreal Labs and C. Finley;
Mengna Da w/ Chienn Tai;
Shihan Zhang w/ Mingyong Chang @mingyong_art , Han Zhang @hanzhangpqqo, Ziwei Liu, Jiaye Leng, Yilin Ye.

Photo credits: @isabellaindolfi, co-founder of MESH_Arts, @david__liuuuu, @amyjiang517

Technical Support: Enddle Jianhao Zheng @enddle.work , David Liu @david__liuuuu

Thank you to everyone who came, participated, played, questioned, and made the night what it was🧡