Twelve artifacts. Two formats.
Existing works brought to their final form for one exhibition. Six artifacts per format, balanced three established and three emerging. The two formats are the two halves of the passage — the vortex made legible, and the wormhole opened.
The whirlpool as a force — rotation, pressure, pull, collapse. WHITEBOX studies what pulls worlds downward: climate instability, extraction, colonial histories, technological misuse, failed archives. Fashion, installation, and material evidence, held still long enough to be read — you circle them, study the seam, see how the world was built. Here, the vortex becomes legible.
The wormhole as passage — a gateway out of collapse into the futures artists build. Film, sound, performance, projection, transformation. What was pulled under is carried forward — memory, climate, and erased histories transported into worlds you can enter. A film runs once; a performance happens once. Here, passage becomes experiential.
Floating "aerobes" — machine lifeforms drawn from ocean species and fungi — drift through a shifting scent ecology. The marquee reach of the lab.
An Afrofuturist archive of artifacts envisioning Black futures. Salome Asega directs NEW INC.
An immersive tidal work of rising water, the climate anchor of the stage.
A VR future where a city reclaimed by nature is told in Anishinaabe and other Indigenous languages.
Carbon-negative bioplastic sequins from marine algae.
Blocks of ice as a canvas for light and sound — a durational work that melts as it plays.
Queer Black mythology danced through CGI worlds.
A Chinese-American worker falls for an 18th-century Qing-dynasty god of gay lovers — queer Asian mythology rendered as digital fantasy.
Community oral histories encoded into the DNA of living okra — a Black-centered AI built on consent, not extraction.
A crystalline garment that grows on the body over hours, then disintegrates — fashion performed as a living cycle.
Durational land performance from a Yup'ik choreographer, on kinship and the night sky.
Interactive VR on prairie ecology and kinship with natural systems.
Lineup is target, in conversation. All existing works, confirmed at artist lock.
