NEW INC and Rhizome invite you to join a conversation with artists Nahee Kim and Christopher Clary about how their work blurs practice and life, love and fantasy, intimacy and technology. Kim’s Daddy Residency is a call for daddies to raise her future baby; Clary’s livestreamed The Chrisy Show is a talk show with sex workers about cam culture hosted on Chaturbate. By centering queer and feminist desire, Kim and Clary ask if the world is ready for a new frame on romance, pleasure, and family life.

This event will include closed captioning. ASL interpretation and CART captioning are available by requests made at least four business days prior to the program.

Nahee Kim (she/they) is an artist, teacher, and web programmer who is performing “nahee.app” on social media. nahee.app is a speculative program that writes itself interpreting Nahee’s sexual identity, preference, and experiences as computational objects. nahee.app devises sex code and documentation and partner matching algorithms by converting mechanisms of existing programming languages and network protocols into provocative interactions. nahee.app expands its code about sex to social context by questioning the existence of gender-specific roles around the family building through the project <Daddy Residency>. Nahee is based in New York and Seoul.

Christopher Clary is an artist and curator exploring sex in tech culture. His practice playfully draws on personal archives and queer histories using performance, video, installation, objects, books, and even software - sometimes all in one series - to think and act on futurity. His art has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and conferences around the world, from the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to China Art Book Fair in Beijing. His Rhizome commission, a porn-novella-zip-file was Hyperallergic’s best individual work of Internet art in 2016 and acquired by MoMA and the Whitney, and exhibited at ETH Zurich in 2019. Curatorially, he co-produced a year of programming for the ICP Museum and Library in 2018 that included the work of Allison Parrish, American Artist, Morehshin Allahyari, Nora Khan, Paul Soulellis, and Porpentine Charity Heartscape. Other curatorial projects include an online exhibition about safe space for The Wrong digital art biennale.