A Shimmering Display At Frist
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman is Frist Art Chief Curator’s Mark Scala’s last exhibit before retiring, and what a fascinating exhibit it is. Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman features 17 artists working with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Posthumanism challenges the humanist idea that humans are the center of the universe and above other lifeforms. The artists in this exhibition blur the lines between different forms of existence: animal, vegetable and mineral while emphasizing that human’s abilities and intellect should be used to care for our world instead of harming or destroying it in our quest for progress. Regarding the title “Shimmer,” Scala writes, “The works on view convey the quality of shimmer – a transient glow that makes things appear immaterial and otherworldly. In the gallery’s luminous space, extinct species virtually reappear; machines become entwined with amoeba, slime, and miocrobes; mysterious light-filled avatars float and dance through fantastic landscapes; and the earth reveals itself to be a living organism.” This exhibition is divided into the following sections: Endangered Species, Dreams and Metamorphosis, and Everything is Connected. In the first section, “Endangered Species,” The Substitute by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg isRead More
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