A new exhibition to launch OTOKA's new Nottingham city centre venue. Curated by Moritz Cheung for Sudden Beams and Platform Asia.
Sudden Beams 2: Extraction illuminates the speculative world of Asian futurism. From the billowing dust of the Aral Sea to the emerging eco-horrors of Northeastern India, Extraction proposes fresh visions of humanity and ecology through Asian-inspired science fiction and mythology.
Via an audio-visual experience, we travel through time, space and memory. Sudden Beams 2: Extraction is a spiritual odyssey that explores fantasies of the future, religion and South Asian art, through artists’ film, sound and browser-based game.
Date: 18–28 May 23 (Closed Monday & Tuesday)
Address: 38–40 Wheeler Gate, Nottingham, NG1 2ND
Free Entry
Opening hours:
Monday CLOSED
Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday 12–8pm
Thursday 12–8pm
Friday 12–8pm
Saturday 12–8pm
Sunday 12–4pm
Private View: Thursday 18 May, 4–7pm
Performance & Launch Party: Friday 19 May, 7pm–Late
Performance and Party
Friday 19 May 7pm–Late, OTOKA
A late night opening of the exhibition at OTOKA featuring music and live performances by:
- Nottingham-based Artist and musician Tom Harris, 7:00PM–8:00PM
- Artist and DJ Chooc Ly Tan, 8:00PM–9:00PM
- Nottingham-based producer and DJ M75, 9:00PM–11:00PM
Our Lady of I Can Be Anything You Want Me To, Afrah Shafiq, 2020
Read more about the programme at suddenbeams.com
Sudden Beams 2: Extraction is curated by Moritz Cheung for Sudden Beams and Platform Asia. This exhibition programme is delivered in association with Near Now and OTOKA. Supported by Arts Council England.
Programme
- Our Lady of I Can Be Anything You Want Me To, Afrah Shafiq, 2020, 3:20 mins
- Passage, Mani Kambo, 2021, 1:44 mins
- Aralkum, Daniel Asadi Faezi & Mila Zhluktenko, 2022, 13:40 mins
- Echo/ Caress, Fileona Dkhar, 2021, 8:32 mins
- The place where you want to go is nowhere, Anum Awan & Beast Nest, 2022, 5:52 mins
- Your utopia is here, Bishwadhan Rai, 2018, 4:42 mins
- Nehirden Denize II, River to Sea, Subash Thebe Limbu, 2017, 7:36 mins
- NEO GEODESIA — Venomesis, Saphy Vong, 2021, 2:28 mins
- Earth Friction, Chooc Ly Tan, 2022, 30:26 mins (online)
- Safarname, Saraab (Shahana Rajani & Omer Wasim), 2020, 23:20 mins (online)
Sudden Beams
Sudden Beams is a platform that supports and promotes South Asian artists working with sound and digital media in the UK and internationally. They create opportunities to see, experience and engage with digital culture from across the South Asian region, and UK and global communities. Sudden Beams is curated and produced by Platform Asia.
OTOKA
OTOKA is a nomadic & fluid research, exhibition, residency, online platform & studio space established by artist Candice Jacobs after returning to Nottingham during the Pandemic and becoming a mother.
Banner image: NEO GEODESIA — Venomesis, Saphy Vong, 2021