Artifice 006

Artifacts from
the Vortex

Who gets to imagine the future, and what happens when they do.
Saturday, January 30, 2027 · East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The concept

From vortex to wormhole.

The vortex names what has been swallowed: histories, climates, futures. In Drexciya and Rivers Solomon's The Deep, survival depends on holding the record of what history tried to drown. If the vortex is collapse, the wormhole is passage — an aperture between memory, climate, technology, and imagined futures.

Chapter 006 gathers twelve artifacts that hold both collapse and passage. Each one carries another reality: an ecology shaped by climate and decay, an Afrofuturist archive of future memory, a posthuman relic from a failed utopia, a sonic transmission from imagined futures.

Two formats

WHITEBOX

The whirlpool as a force system: rotation, pressure, pull, collapse, drag. WHITEBOX studies the forces that produce collapse — climate instability, extraction, colonial histories, technological misuse, failed archives. Here, the vortex becomes legible.

BLACKBOX

The wormhole as passage: a gateway out of the spacetime of collapse and into speculative futures. Through sound, image, performance, and transformation, its artifacts propel us forward. What was pulled under returns.

The work

Twelve artifacts. Two formats.

Existing works brought to their final form. Six per format, balanced three established and three emerging.

Whitebox · EstablishedIn Love With the WorldKinetic bio-installationMachine-organisms drift through the air — a study of synthetic life and breath.Anicka Yi

Whitebox · EstablishedIyapo RepositoryParticipatory archiveFuture artifacts affirming Black life, summoned from community memory.Salome Asega · Ayodamola Okunseinde

Whitebox · EstablishedOkraCommunity-trained AIA voice model raised on the care of Black and Brown communities.Stephanie Dinkins

Whitebox · EmergingAfter Ancient SunlightCarbon-negative garmentA dress of algae sequins that stores carbon instead of emitting it.Charlotte McCurdy

Whitebox · EmergingBiomimicryLiving coutureGarments that grow and crystallize — fashion modeled on natural systems.Auroboros

Whitebox · EmergingThawIce installationMelting ice keeps time on a collapse already underway.Nate Mohler

Blackbox · EstablishedReifying Desire3D animation / videoA queer cosmology built from memory, labor, and his mother's drawings.Jacolby Satterwhite

Blackbox · EmergingBiidaaban: First LightVR filmA future Toronto reclaimed by water, plants, and Indigenous language.Lisa Jackson

Blackbox · EstablishedBeing Future BeingLive performanceChoreography that rehearses a future shaped by Indigenous presence.Emily Johnson

Blackbox · EstablishedTiger DaughterFilm / performanceMythic transformation staged between the body and the digital.Andrew Thomas Huang

Blackbox · EmergingPrairieSpeculative videoA pollinator's-eye passage through an altered ecology.localstyle

Blackbox · EmergingSettlementReal-time simulationA generative city assembling and dissolving in real time.BEAM

The record

The interview is part of the work.

Every artifact is followed from first release to final form, filmed the day before the opening and published through [ENTER] and the Artifact Index — public and citable after the doors close.

Model: Art21 × CHANEL Culture Fund — IRL/URL, short artist documentaries on the art-and-technology boundary.

Documentation — one shoot day

Director / DP — shoot day	$1,800
Camera + lens package	$1,200
Sound + lighting	$900
Editor — cut, 12 artist films	$1,600
Color + motion / titles	$900
Stills + archive ingest	$600
Documentation total	~$7,000

All twelve artists filmed across the day before doors open.

When & where

WhenSaturday, January 30, 2027 · private Founding Circle dinner the night before

WhereAmant (Géza), East Williamsburg, Brooklyn — institutional and funder-friendly, with an outdoor lot and indoor galleries. Venue in development; locks September 2026.

Scale~1,000 across one night, at the scale Sights: Science Fiction proved.

Amant (Géza) — venue reference

Floor plan

Track record / history

Not a first attempt.

7

events produced

1,000+

attendees

24+

artists shown

120K

reach

Chapter 005, Nodes:i, and Sights: Science Fiction drew ~1,000 in a single night.

Presented with

LaMaMa Galleria · CultureHub · Rhizome · The Processing Foundation · Onassis ONX

Board

Renaise Kim · ED
Kassandra Schengili · Vice Chair
Sarah Kim · Treasurer
Ethan Proia · Secretary

Advisory

Ashley Lee Wong
Sarah Brin

Core team

Renaise Kim · Creative Dir · 2026 ONX Fellow
Kassandra Schengili · Development
Sarah Kim · Communications
Woo Kim · Programs

Extended team

Minsoo Bae · Editor
Andrew Deng · Programs
Yvette Ho · Programs
Effy Feng · Documentation

Cost of production

What it costs.

Lean / modular $75K–$125K · Full / institutional $150K–$250K. Tickets, membership, and grants offset production; a leadership gift decides the ceiling. Artists are paid before the doors open.

	Artist honoraria (W.A.G.E.-compliant)	$16,000
	XR / immersive development + spatial AV	$19,000
	Production — materials, lighting, sound, staging	$12,500
	Labor — producer, TD, crew, security	$13,200
	Documentation + artist interviews	$7,000
	Audience — catering, access, signage	$6,000
	Marketing + compliance	$5,000
	Contingency (10%)	~$8,000
	Venue (Amant, in development)	$0–3K
	Lean tier total	~$90K

What gets funded

~$90K

Lean tier

Artist honoraria18%

XR / AV21%

Production14%

Labor15%

Documentation8%

Audience7%

Marketing5%

Contingency9%