On October 28th, the first Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB), “Synthetic Ecology” officially opens at 798 CUBE Art Museum.
Marking the opening exhibition since the establishment of the art museum, the first BATB is jointly initiated and co-hosted by the 798 Art District and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). It brings together 50 participants – artists, scientists, biologists – from all around the world, and engages front-edge technologies from fields of biotechnology, materials science, digital production, and emerging media. The biennale features 3 chapters – Radical Nature, Entangled Life, and Interwoven Evolution – to extend the perspectives of thinking from mankind to all beings, from society to the universe. This exhibition discusses the symbiosis between human and nature by revolving around topics such as climate change, environmental protection, environmental sustainability, and conceptualization of future, then attempts to inspire the public with thinking on the how-to question for human-nature symbiosis and calls for attention on a common human destiny in the future.
Artist: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Xiang Jing, Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Patricia Piccinini, Ralf Baecker, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Rimini Protokoll, Liang Shaoji, Sophie Falkeis, Špela Petrič, Susan Schuppli, Suzanne Anker, Terike Haapoja, terra0: Paul Kolling, Paul Seidler, Max Hampshire, Ursula Biemann, Art of Bio Machine, Climate Clock
Curators: Chen Xiaowen, Wang Naiyi
Exhibition time: Oct.28, 2022 – Jan.31, 2023
Venue: 798CUBE
Work by Xiang Jing: Descending