AFFECTIVE TERRITORIES, ALTERNATE BELONGINGS

AUGUST 23 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday, August 23rd, 6-9 p.m.
Panel discussion: Saturday, September 13th, 12 - 2 p.m.

The exhibition Affective Territories, Alternate Belongings showcases video and multi-media artworks from contemporary national and international artists whose current video production practice highlights technology as an extension of humankind and its desire to transcend corporeal identity.

The introduction of digital technologies and the rise of artificial intelligence have altered our understanding of belonging to a physical world and opened ways of existing in a new transhuman one. Belonging is no longer conflated with a place, a culture, or a generation. Rather, it widens to include questions of what constitutes the human/non-human through our correspondence to objects and other species and the relationship between our digital avatars and our visceral, embodied experiences.

Many of the works in this project challenge this reality by presenting solitary humans, computer generated characters, or humans acting as video game protagonists, often all facing a hostile or alien environment. They ask us to slow down, urging us to explore the increasingly entangled, unbodied, and corporeal worlds we take turns inhabiting so we can create new territories of belonging and develop alternate affections.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher / United States, Camille Dumond/ Switzerland, Chrystele Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini / France, Holly Veselka / United States, Joe Harjo / United States, Laine Rettmer / United States, Margaret Noble / United States, Paul Moore / Northern Ireland (UK), Scott Massey / Canada, Sophie Dia Pegrum / British/American, Spencer Chang / United States, Woohee Cho / South Korea/ United States

This exhibition is curated and organized by Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley of Prospect Art. The project is co-created by Prospect Art’s 2023/24 Curatorial Fellow, Prima Jalichandra Sakuntabhai, and Prospect Art’s 4th-WALL program manager, Pedro Inock.

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Otherworldiness- Alternate Belonging

Saturday, September 13, 2025 
12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

Through the videoworks of Camille Dumond, Margaret Noble, and Woohee Cho, co-curator Prima Sakuntabhai invites you to reflect with us on technology as a medium of melancholy and how we, humans, find our place in a world with which we are increasingly disconnected. 

Discussion themes include: Spaces marked by absence, desire, and longing: how does technology fulfill the lack caused by a deceased loved one, the destruction of the natural world, or an unmediated sense of self? Obsolescence of human emotions: inability to grieve, sense of inadequacy, inability to evolve, alienation from the natural world. Themes of self-surveillance and the surveillance of others, surveillance of the natural world.