Under, Over, Through
Ani Liu, Gal Nissim & Leslie Ruckman, Jiabao Li, Jonah King & Sue Huang, Lydia White, Nocturnal Medicine, Trash Club
Exhibition Hours: 2pm-8pm
Tours of the exhibition @3pm, 5pm, and 6pm
Tours of Newlab @ 4pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm
Jiabao Li's glacier ice slushies served @ 6pm
Closing rite by Nocturnal Medicine @ 7pm
Under, Over, Through is a group exhibition of artworks created by the artists in NEW INC’s Creative Science Track. The title refers to an expanded sense of landscape, both fictional and documentary, that illustrates the shifting nature of the world around us. J.G. Ballard describes landscapes as formalizations of time and space, noting that external planes directly reflect interior states of mind. Notably, landscapes are not fixed neither in space, nor time: they are impermanent, they are hidden, they exist outside of and inside of the body. The works in this exhibition weave through imagined mycelial worlds, sites of environmental disaster, and variations on the future. The theme extends to the body itself as a topographical, textured plane for storytelling and contemplation. Ani Liu’s The Surrogacy presents an uncanny vision into body politics, pregnancy, and interspecies collage making. Conversely, Nocturnal Medicine’s installation and closing rite shift the perspective from inside the body to inside the earth and time before sentient life. Three virtual reality works by Jonah King & Sue Huang, Trash Club, and Jiabao Li find a shared throughline of crystallized worldbuilding, whether that is in a glacier, in a mycelial network, or in our backyard in the Meadowlands. Lydia White’s sculptural installation considers circular systems of waste and regeneration through biochar and sequestered carbon. Some landscapes are also invisible: Gal Nissim & Leslie Ruckmnan’s Swan Song asks viewers to consider the fragility of life in the built environment. Impermanence and uncertainty are the contours for this decade’s historic turn. Under, Over, Through suggests these contours as a throughline for history, before and after intelligent life.
ABOUT NEW INC
NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips and Karen Wong in 2013 and is the first museum-led cultural incubator dedicated to supporting innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology. NEW INC’s Director is Salome Asega. For more information, visit newinc.org.
ABOUT NEW MUSEUM
The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Event Partner: Newlab
Newlab mobilizes people and capital to advance technologies that support the health of our planet. Newlab acts as facilitator, connector, and translator for its community of experts and innovators, helping to build, test, and scale world-changing ideas through investment, venture building, and structured collaboration with industry and government partners.
ABOUT SCIENCE SANDBOX
Science Sandbox is an initiative dedicated to inspiring a deeper interest in science, especially among those who don't think of themselves as science enthusiasts. We support and collaborate with programs that unlock scientific thinking.