Health & Wellness
Wednesday Kim, Sara Ludy, Maya Man, LaJuné McMillian, and Surabhi Saraf
February 1–29, 2024
Screening daily from 5:30PM – midnight
Night Lights Denver
Daniels & Fisher Tower
1601 Arapahoe Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
Night Light Denver’s February program is curated by Valerie Amend as an ode to health and wellness—a theme often reflected on at the advent of the new year. Artists Wednesday Kim, Sara Ludy, Maya Man, LaJuné McMillian, and Surabhi Saraf survey attitudes of healing through digital, astral, and phenomenological means. Exhibited works will be on display as an outdoor projection, looping every 10 minutes from sunset–midnight on the Daniels & Fisher Tower in downtown Denver at 1601 Arapahoe Street.
”The Mental Athlete“ is a mental care project by Kim tailored for those at home or the office. Building on past success, like ”Aesthetic of Being Disappeared,“ where a therapist offered guidance, this project features a virtual health trainer character promoting mental well-being. Based on personal and surveyed experiences, ”The Mental Athlete“ explores the link between mental health, cleanliness, and exercise‘s brain-boosting effects. The work is presented through an enlightening video.
An interactive Zoom workout session in collaboration with Rory Scott @rks_xo and supported by The Pylon Lab @pylon_hub_lab
My muse for the piece: @hanhongzheng and @fatty____tuna@night_lights_denver Night Light Denver’s February program is curated by Valerie Amend (@ediththehero )
Featured Artists:
•Wednesday Kim @wednesdaykimm
•Sara Ludy @saraludy
•Maya Man @mayaontheinternet
•LaJuné McMillian @_lovelaja
•Surabhi Saraf @ssssuurrrrbbbbe
My dear daughter,
Mommy grew up listening to this OG K-pop music during mommy’s stormy days back in the days. I can share it with you, and it fills me with joy.
#나때는말이야
Pavilion Name: Server of Flesh
Artists:
Alexandra Ercoli, Angelica Verdan, Curro Rodriguez-Sanchez, David Bellemare, Glosopeda (Rachel Lamot + Kim Rosario), Mike Patten, Pedro Gossler, Philippe Caron-Lefebvre, Wednesday Kim, Zander Porter, 10th Floor Studio
Server of Flesh
What are we capable of becoming?
Technology has made us procedural beings. Identity as we knew it, handed down by our family and our geographical communities (schools, sports club, and other gathering spaces), is now only an infinitesimal part of who we really are. Through the digital medium, we discover, explore, and learn about new realities happening thousands of kilometres away that, nonetheless, are making us feel at home. These spaces allow us to be who we really are, who we really believe to be, and give us a reason to continue our journey in a world that often feels on the brink of collapse.
Curator
Litote / Pierre Chaumont / Marie Chaumont
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Litote is a bridge-builder between digital communities and a springboard to national and international excellence. At the heart of our mission lies the desire to reconcile the worlds of contemporary digital art and video games, both independent and triple A. We firmly believe that this convergence allows for the implementation of innovative ideas on a theoretical, methodological, and creative level. By bringing together these different perspectives, we aim to create a transdisciplinary approach that explores the contemporary challenges we face.
The 2023 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant Fund is proud to present its chosen artists, Wednesday Kim @wednesdaykimm Asma Kazmi @asmakazmi and Chanee Choi @chanee.choi 🤍These three artists represent a wave of artists bringing a new perspective to new media art, embracing what artist/curator Marisa Olson calls post-internet art, that is, work that is no longer fascinated by the novelty of the internet and technology itself but rather exists surrounded by it. Abandoning the trappings of Techno-Fetishism and instead embracing a wider human experience, from mental health to the clash of capitalism and religion to the effects of hate crimes on a community, these works immerse us into the fears and hopes of its creators.
By supporting this diversity of voices, the New Media Caucus hopes to expand the field and make it a richer, more diverse space, where voices not often heard in the wider context can thrive.
🖤Asma Kazmi / Cranes and Cube (2019)
🖤Chanee Choi / Remembrance Project (2021)
🖤Wednesday Kim / Walking on the Thin Ice (2021)
A special thanks to @renegcepeda@newmediacaucus
Posted @withregram • @femmebit 🌴💜🌅 In Medias Res opens August 17 on @feralfile 🌞🪸🌵
IRL artist talk 8/15, 7pm at @nftuesdays at @elcidsunset 🔥🔥🔥FEMMEBIT 🔥🔥🔥presents In Medias Res, an exhibition of on-chain artworks by Los Angeles-adjacent, feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who reimagine celluloid-based media for the decentralized realm of Life 3.0.
@FEMMEBIT is proud to present works by
@tunamunaluna@petra_cortright@huntrezz@uncannysfvalley@wednesdaykimm@songsoffilm@annaluisapetrisko@elliepritts@jjstratford
LA’s sun drenched, palm-dappled, Hollywood aesthetic is reimagined as a diffuse and dis-related chaparral cityscape via video gifs and XR: In Medias Res reflects today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. The artists have created 33 on-chain works in tribute to “angel number” 33.
Exhibition runtime starts 8/17 14:00 UTC+0 (7:00 AM PST) and activities on Feral File’s platform begin around noon PST. Collecting begins 8/24, and the first collectors receive a bespoke California Poppy tincture created by artist Anna Luisa Petrisko! The work may be purchased via fiat or crypto.
Catch us @NFTuesday 8/15 at @elcidsunset at 7 PM PST, followed by an artist talk with some of the exhibiting artists at 8:30 PM PST.
Curated by @parsonsprojects + @janna_avner
FEMMEBIT is a grassroots organization fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Donate at femmebit.art (link in bio) to keep us running!
#LAart#video#ai#future#gaze#cinematic#NFT#feralfile#artshow#worldbuilding#climate#kinetic
GЯΛППY👵🏼 is on her way to feed you🍽️🥢
"Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future." - Helen Ketchum
💜 Let’s celebrate Women's History Month Together💜
FYI
The 2023 theme is "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories." This theme recognizes "women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, news, and social media.
#womensupportingwomen#womensmonth2023
Apply for the Social VR Art Residency 2023 in VR Art Camp!
Artist honorarium: $200
Jury: Wednesday Kim, Judit Navratil and the Artists of VR Art Camp
Deadline: 20th of January, 2023 (11pm PST)
Announcing the participants: 31st of January, 2023
Details about the residency, requirements and mutual expectations are on our website: /open-call
>> Application form link in bio <<
We welcome womxn and artists from underrepresented groups working in all mediums, from anywhere in the world*, with access to a computer and internet to apply! Wednesday Kim @wednesdaykimm (De:Formal Gallery @deformal_ ) & Judit Navratil @juditnavratil select and present the finalists to the former Art Camp Artists who are voting together for the 9 residents of 2023.
We are so excited to share these amazing news with you before waving goodbye to 2022. VR Art Camp is proud and grateful to be an Alternative Exposure Grantee in their 16th Round! It is a great honor to join the list of incredible artists and projects, congratulations to all Grantees! Thank you, Southern Exposure, @southernexposuresf for your support! This means that our social VR residency comes out of the year long dormancy and we can offer our resident artists a modest honorarium of $200!
In case you didn’t have a chance to join our events, and would like to experience VR Art Camp at its best, we host an Information Gathering about the Open Call in the Art Camp Commons, with a special activation in River Black’s @ariverblack space on the 8th of January, 11am PST.
#opencall#opencallforartists#artresidency#artistresidency#emergingartist#artresidencyprogram#virtualreality#paidartist#vrartcamp#digitalartcommunity#socialvr#mozillahubs#alternartiveexposure#southernexposure#supportcommunity#gratitude
*timing aligned with Pacific Time Zone
Let’s get ready for our OPEN CALL
juried by Wednesday Kim, co-founder of De:Formal Gallery
@wednesdaykimm@deformal_
With the Alternative Exposure Grant, we are inviting womxn and artists from underserved groups for our social VR residency with a $200 honorarium. Apply to become an Art Camper between 20 December ‘22 - 20 January ‘23! Thank you, @southernexposuresf !
We are proud and happy to introduce our co-jury, Wednesday!
Wednesday Kim🔫️ is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal Online Gallery.She is from Seoul, South Korea and is currently based out of California. Kim works with a mixture of analog and digital media including 3D animation, video, performance, installation, print, and sculpture with clusterfuck Aesthetic. Her work is informed by personal experiences and human psychology; she derives imagery from nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and childhood trauma. Furthermore, she portrays the absurdity of information-saturated contemporary life in a surrealist fashionthrough wordplay, Wikipedia, voyeurism, and witticism.
wednesdaykim.xyz
Wednesday Kim & Judit Navratil select and present the finalists to the former Art Camp Artists who are voting together for the 9 residents of 2023.
#opencall#opencallforartists#artresidency#artistresidency#emergingartist#artresidencyprogram#virtualreality#artistrunspace#caregivers#socialVR#virtualartresidencty#welove#instagram#alternartiveexposure#digitalartist#vrartcamp#artcommunity
All images are courtesy of Wednesday Kim and can be found on her website:
https://wednesdaykim.xyz/
🧠MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing
How are you? You know that it’s okay to feel what you are feeling, right?
Your feelings are unique and personal.
MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing is not an exhibition about mental illness, treatments or cures. It is a welcoming place where you can confront societal bias and stereotypes around mental health. MENTAL invites you to embark on an intimate and personal journey that explores the many different ways of being, surviving and making connections, that have become of increasing importance to us all.
This exhibition features 24 interactive exhibits, art projects and large-scale installations by international artists, makers, scientists and designers that reflect a range of perspectives on mental health and ways of being. In addition, there are seven artworks by Singaporean and Southeast Asian artists that explore mental health from a uniquely Southeast Asian perspective.
The works featured in this exhibition take on serious topics in an accessible way and have been grouped into four broad themes - Connection, Exploration, Expression and Reflection.
MENTAL celebrates differences and complexities and represents the idea that every mental health journey is unique. We encourage you to reflect upon, question and empathise with what it means to be human in the second decade of the 21st century.
Special thanks to @tillyboleyn
MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing is co-curated by ArtScience Museum and Science Gallery Melbourne and is the last exhibition in ArtScience Museum's Season of Mental Wellbeing - a year-long programme of exhibitions and events that are intended to raise awareness and initiate conversations on the importance of mental health and wellbeing.
Some documentations + found Ig posts
Come and feel free to cry, we have tissues for your tears 💧
Posted @withrepost • @pylon_hub_lab PYLON is excited to announce the upcoming online presentation of Wednesday Kim's new mental care project 'The Mental Athlete' starting on November 24, 2022.
A clean home and healthy body are the evidence of a state of mind.
Are you tired? Are you depressed? Do you stay home and work on a computer for a long day?
'The Mental Athlete' is Wednesday's new mental care project for everyone stuck at their home or office or home office. It is another series of work that deals with mental health. In her past work, 'Aesthetic of being Disappeared.', a therapist appeared to help out, and this time, a health trainer will help you get your mind healthier. 'The Mental Athlete' is based on a mixture of her personal experiences and other people’s experiences via an online survey. It illustrates the relationship between mental health and cleaning and how exercise boosts the brain and improves mental health.
Get ready with Wednesday. Let's work out together.
The Mental Athlete
@wednesdaykimm
Nov 24 - Dec 31
Link in bio 🔝
The online exhibition is part of PYLON-Lab's program COLLATERAL EXTINCTION, funded by @kulturstiftungfreistaatsachsen
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes.
#pylonlab#pylon#wednesdaykim#mentalathlete#onlineexhibition#homeoffice#workout#mentalhealth#therapy#cleaning#exercise#avatars#mediaart#contemporaryart#digitalart#3d#animation#mindandbody
