A CELL IS A CARNIVAL 

🗓️ Exhibit Run: Dec 6 – Dec 8, 2024
🎉 Opening Night: Friday, December 6 🕖 7 PM
📍 Gameplayarts, 5511 W. Pico Blvd
🎟️ Free with RSVP

Six games at the arcade, six candles for the summoning, and six stars in the constellation. Six ghosts in the shell. Six artists in transit.

There are infinite ways of mapping any six points in the spacetime continuum. This is but all of them.

A CELL IS A CARNIVAL is an experiment in nested proximities and mixed metaphors: body as fairground, ritual as network, wormhole as world. The show celebrates the osmotic ability of art and technology to move through permeable boundaries of selfhood and community. As emerging artists, we operate as organelles, barkers, and daemons. We seek to replicate, merge, and evolve in concert with friends and familiar strangers, while maintaining tenuous boundaries of individual autonomy. Inspired by images of organic membranes and the cloth walls of circus tents, our collective practice also functions as a fluid structure, shifting endlessly between solitude and belonging.

We especially invite you to join us for our Opening Night event on Friday, December 6 at 7 PM. As you cross the gallery threshold, you will discover such curious delights as: an encrypted hand puppet, divinatory technologies, consensual eavesdropping, teeth as a symbol of eroded time, the gamification of the mammalian reward system, and kaleidoscopic fragments of self and memory. We invite you to enter, to circulate and celebrate, to absorb and be absorbed in turn … and then to break away, retreat, and say our fond farewells. Until the next time.

Featuring art and performances by Chelly Jin, Rowena Kou, Sadia Quddus, Sagan Yee, Stamatis Hamouzas, and Xiner Lan.