REgenerate is an art salon for radical work that engages the urgent ecological moment. The climate/health emergency, equality, and environmental justice are a few of the intersectional issues. In this unprecedented time, the exhibition will translate through a virtual greenhouse space. Artists, designers, philosophers, poets, dreamers, have the opportunity to re-envision the world. What should it look like when we emerge? This momentum will be a bridge to 2020 exhibition possibilities utilizing the thriving New Orleans Greenway, and we will continue to merge in this direction.
The digital portal of REgenerate is physically connected by wires, energies, and codes through spaces in-between—nonhuman and human elements. These are very real and politically charged conduits. One intention of the project is to interrogate what these network spaces are, how to utilize them in a grounding way, and where the juncture of analog and digital transmissions exists. What occurs when virtual effects enmesh a physical ground? What perceptions shift, and what flickering occurs while we walk the wires? Where does the body inhabit this ecosystem? How does this intersect privacy, AI, surveillance, and flows of information? Can these collective #landscapes spark activism? What is the mode of ART here?
Curated artworks have been selected to launch REgenerate, and artists are invited to submit work for consideration. The digital @REgenerate_space portion of this exhibit allows freedom to experiment! The work can be cross-disciplinary, and artists are encouraged to create responsive pieces to a rapidly shifting world. The hope is to generate ideas, and continue to expand these revivified ecosystems and landscapes across space. A collective visual poem.
~ co-creator
Lara Schaberg
