Any Thing Going Away, Where Ever Remains

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Canton-sardine, "Any Thing Going Away, Where Ever Remains," 2022

Any Thing Going Away, Where Ever Remains

Are we humans shaping ourselves into what we would like to be?

Yes, perhaps, no. We work hard to be what we think we would like to be. Sometimes, we really make it happen as wish, but other times, things turn out to be different and then we trick ourselves to believe that the undesirable outcomes are simply by-product, a necessary sacrifice due to what we really want to achieve. While humans have “ruled” the world for a “long” period of time and dinosaurs had “presided” even longer, yet on the scale of our planet’s history, both periods are relatively short spans of time. Are we under- or over-exerting ourselves?

In the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Sarah Connor says at the end of the movie: “The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.”

Some people claim that the conception of posthumanism may be just a hypothetical proposition. Some people say that whether it is expected or not, posthumanism is already on its way. In this exhibition, the curators do not announce a certain theory or perspective. If possible, we may hope to re-examine human nature from the anticipated status of posthumanism: May we recognize the reality of human nature, scrutinize its existence, and re-think what we are only when we disappear?

Artists:

Amy Li-chuan Chang

Wei Cheng

Steven Dragonn

Lixiao He

Judy Jheung

Ella Mievovsky

Rui Min

Alina Senchenko

Abi Sheng

Fabien Villon

Pongsarkorn Yananissorn

Peili Zhang

Curator: Steven Dragonn