Catalina Tuca, *The Sensitive Project* (Installation), 2020.

3 March – 22 May 2022

Artists: Laura Anzola & Matthew Waddell, Orsolya Gal, stephanie mei huang, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Yotam Peled, Catalina Tuca, Dawn Weleski, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Huidi Xiang and Cherrie Yu.

Rerouting is an exhibition of artwork stemming from the Collider: In-Residence Artist Residency, an online program inviting 12 artists from around the world to consider new modes of artistic practice, collaboration, and pandemic responses. Featuring work based in digital and online modes, sculpture, performance, and social practice, Rerouting presents alternative approaches artists make during periods of containment and isolation. In the midst of COVID 19, artists and cultural organizations found themselves scrambling to adapt to new realities, not least of which was finding a space, whether digital or physical, where art could be experienced without compromise. With the advances in digital conferencing, the Collider: In-Residence Artist Residence provided artists a timely platform with which to share their experiences with one another and develop new work in a positive, collaborative and innovative milieu.

Rerouting is the culmination of these critical discussions and artworks made directly during the residency or as a result of it. Whether exploring digital manifestations of emotions, employing bots to interrogate Artificial Intelligence, or occupying virtual lives in video games, new technologies and modes of social interaction informed many of the works in the exhibition. These digitally inspired works are balanced with something more physical as shared sourdough starter and contemplative gardens co-mingle with pom-pom making workshops and performances with kettlebells, which together, signal that in this new pandemic age, connecting and communicating with people is paramount whatever route one might take.

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