Jun Haeng Lee
What does it mean to exist at the edge of a system’s attention?
The platform is the observer. When the algorithm were to retrieve, circulate, and engage with the users’ content, it does not abandon already existing content but withdraws their attention. In participatory universe theory, observation is not passive reception but a constitutive act. When existence loses their observer, it is unable to be concluded or defined. It remains in superposition. This is a multiple simultaneous condition, not entirely fixed.
Cache sits in the threshold of a system’s eyes. It is present enough to be stored, but indeterminate enough to never be claimed. Cache: Existing in the Threshold situates the concept of existence at this boundary. It is not outside the system, not fully within it, but held at the edge of what the platform’s observational act is willing to be part of.
The exhibition presents artworks that inhabit this condition. All artworks and performances bring out their capacity to make the threshold visible and let visitors to witness, participate, and exist.
Artists
Brea Freeburn · Zahra Baqer · Sungjoo Han · Qifu Xu · Anubhav Deka · Yuyuan Zhu · Mai Muraguchi · Qiyu Liu · Youngsuk Oh · Hakyoung Kim · Lu Gan · Yuesong Wang · Isabelle Zetterström · Yufei Chen · Karolina Maria Dudek · Runsu Wang · Glara Shim · Maisy Timney · Aima Fan · Wing-Hung Lit · Xiuqing Li · Chi Lin · Leyla Pooya Khan · Xiaoyi Sun · Sparro Chen · Linxia Li · Jacob Jeng · Teng Wang · Divyam Raghunath
Curated by
Jun Haeng Lee
Organised by
Cut The Stem
About Cut The Stem
Cut The Stem is an artist-led exhibition series hosted on the first floor of The Rose Battersea. They invite artists working across all media to submit work for this group exhibition.
Jun Haeng Lee
Curator & Writer
Seoul / London
junlee1317@gmail.com