This the wrong place to die
The Wrong Biennale No 5
November 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022
We’ve been living with social media dread for quite a while. In a 2018 leaked memo, a Facebook executive said, “We connect people. Period… maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools”. If death is a corporate strategy, then rebirth through art is a necessity. This the wrong place to die is an online exhibition that memorializes such transformations — how artists screenshot, film, troll, doula, exercise, code, glitch, and ultimately wrong their way through a web 2.0 landscape that still, today, is encoded with a death drive.
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![Photograph by Wang]()
![Drawing by Porpentine]()
![Still from Signe & Pierce]()
![Still from Henner]()
![Website by Gauthier, Sajaa, & Sullivan]()
![Poem by Yearous-Algozin & reading by Hamilton]()
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![Clipping by Anthony Malone]()
The Wrong Biennale No 5
November 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022
We’ve been living with social media dread for quite a while. In a 2018 leaked memo, a Facebook executive said, “We connect people. Period… maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools”. If death is a corporate strategy, then rebirth through art is a necessity. This the wrong place to die is an online exhibition that memorializes such transformations — how artists screenshot, film, troll, doula, exercise, code, glitch, and ultimately wrong their way through a web 2.0 landscape that still, today, is encoded with a death drive.
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Curator
Christopher Clary
Graphics
Somnath Bhatt
Music
shawné michaelain holloway
Platform
Common.Garden
Artists
Abeera Kamran
Anthony Malone
Dylan Gauthier, Doron Sadja, & Kendra Sullivan
Eva & Franco Mattes
Jenyu Wang
Joey Yearous-Algozin & Diana Hamilton
Mishka Henner
Nasim Aghdam
Porpentine Charity Heartscape
shawné michaelain holloway
Signe Pierce & Alli Coates
Somnath Bhatt
Christopher Clary
Graphics
Somnath Bhatt
Music
shawné michaelain holloway
Platform
Common.Garden
Artists
Abeera Kamran
Anthony Malone
Dylan Gauthier, Doron Sadja, & Kendra Sullivan
Eva & Franco Mattes
Jenyu Wang
Joey Yearous-Algozin & Diana Hamilton
Mishka Henner
Nasim Aghdam
Porpentine Charity Heartscape
shawné michaelain holloway
Signe Pierce & Alli Coates
Somnath Bhatt
Thankful to be an Eyebeam fellow and advisor, NEW INC member, awarded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, commissioned by Rhizome, funded by Meta Open Arts, exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles, sold at Art Book in China, collected by MoMA, reviewed in Art in America, and bested by Hyperallergic.