Limits of Mind
Artist Dialogues II
Mediation BIM'24 - Artist Dialogues exhibitionBiennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024
62 min
Artist Dialogues II: Limits of Mind
With: Sheila Chukwulozie, Aziz Hazara, and Sahej Rahal
We close the first day of BIM’24 with a second Artist Dialogues with the artists Sheila Chukwulozie, Aziz Hazara, and Sahej Rahal. Chukwulozie and Rahal pursue highly original mythologies and world-building, in part around disintegrating limits, through their film and videogame, respectively. Hazara’s film grounds us ruthlessly in the limits of language and exile. . In considering these three artists’ commissions together, particularly within the context of technologies like ML, we find many of the narratives about the limits of the human mind and self that are limiting, which myth and narrative allows us to bend and move beyond. In Rahal’s Distributed Mind Test, the viewers – players – navigate a world, while practicing thinking as and with the non-human, and negotiating multiple mind-states (other players, avatars, beings). Woven throughout are texts from across history examining strict definitions of the human mind from before and long after early cybernetics. In Hazara’s Nowruz, a protagonist, in exile, begins to experience episodes of displacement and disorientation and flux. Chukwulozie’s 11:11 explores the major arcana, in which archteypes of self – the Fool, the Hero – create guiderails for experience.
Before and after the conversation, visitors are warmly invited to experience Chukwulozie’s 11:11, Hazara’s Nowruz, and Rahal’s Distributed Mind Test, and further explore BIM’24.