When Spiders Spin Dusk—Spiralling Outwards
This is the collaborator’s statement regarding the exhibition When Spiders Spin Dusk (curated by Junghyun Kim), Seoul, South Korea, January 2025. This project emerged from Intelligent Terrain, a speculative ecologies program centring on AI’s entanglement with the landscape, which I led and developed the curriculum for since 2021 as UKAI Projects’ Studio Director.
When Spiders Spin Dusk—Carnival of Shipwreck
Curatorial statement and exhibition provocation for When Spiders Spin Dusk at Carnival of Shipwreck, Toronto, Canada.
We urgently need to reimagine our relationships with the world around us and with each other. We have inherited a culture that relies increasingly on abstractions that urge us to categorize, measure, and optimize for our own needs. We cling to broken promises of modernity, to linear narratives of past, present, and future that offer some sense of rescue and faith that tomorrow will somehow be better than today. Our pursuit of efficiency no longer seems to be yielding a better life. Moving forward no longer makes sense. We are left wondering what we might do next.
Intelligent Terrain—Feral Inquiries
Reimagining Digital and Ecological Landscapes: The Speculative Ecologies of Intelligent Terrain
Restructuring Futures
Between 2021–2023, I led the design research for a speculative worldbuilding process that questions the entrenched assumption that technology must always serve efficiency, speed, and scale for the partnered project Restructuring Futures. In response to the uncertainties—the pandemic, political unrest, financial instability, and more— impacting how artists and cultural producers cooperate in developing works, I explored how asynchronous creative networks—distributed, nonlinear, and deeply contextual—can be structured to sustain artistic practice outside of extractive systems.