25 May 2022 | 7 – 9 pm
@ IMPORT EXPORT
Aleje Ujazdowskie 22/3
00-478 Warsaw, PL
Please join us for the opening of "please be tender with my data" – the multidisciplinary exhibition by Eternal Engine.
Central to the exhibition will be Body Open Source – the radical gaming experience probing queer intimacy in the metaverse. The VR project was commenced in 2018 and reinvigorated in 2022. It will be presented alongside new work, commissioned for the exhibition: 3D objects, moving images, and spatial installations.
"please be tender with my data" champions exploration of new forms of sexuality and intimate relationships.
Eternal Engine are a queer artistic duo formed by Jagoda Wójtowicz (she/her) and Martix Navrot (they/them ~ he/him) in 2019 and work across media of VR, AR, moving image, performative lectures, sculpture, and installation. In their work, Eternal Engine investigate performativity of virtual spaces and intermedium anomalies (3D, AI, VR, XR). Inspired by digital folklore, technological fetishes, and nanobot fantasies, Eternal Engine developed a singular language that blurs the boundary between the Real and the Virtual.
In 2022, they were nominated to European Change Makers, the list published annually by We Are Europe – Creative Europe project.
Prior to their debut under the name Eternal Engine, the artists spent several years working in the field of video and VR experience art direction.
Selected past projects include: “Inflammation Theory” (video lecture in collaboration with Natalia Sielewicz presented as a part of Warsaw Under Construction. Something in Common at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 2021) ; “Tellurian Insider” (AV performance based on “Cyclonopedia” by Reza Negarestani, presented at Slugg gallery in Leipzig and at the S.P.I.T Queer Performance Festival in Vienna, 2021); “Virtual Revolution” (series of VR raves dedicated to Womens Strike in Poland in cooperation with feminist & queer collectives Oramics and Destitute, 2020).
Click here to see more of Eternal Engine works and research activities:
https://www.are.na/eternal-engine/
https://www.instagram.com/eternal.enginee/
