Jump

Co-exhibitors:

Lindsey Seers, Bedwyr William, Adam Chodzko, Tessa Garland, Michelle Williams Gamaker and David Cotterrell

The exhibition 'Jump', part of the  Pastor Projects, took place in the iconic El Nopal Press studio and venue in the downtown area of Los Angeles. The show incorporates an experimental format and explores the power struggle between artists and AI in claiming authorship, subjectivity and critical agency. Featured works of Bedwyr Williams, Lindsay Seers, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Tessa Garland & Adam Chodzko were displayed along with David Cotterrell's video work, 'Babel', which is a 3D projection of a simple closed-system created within a game engine, depicting an infinitely expanding highway system. 

The exhibition was curated by Thomas Vann Altheimer and hosted by Francesco Siqueiros. JUMP asked six of Britain’s video artists to contribute pieces to a purported face-off with AI in a street window space at Francesco Siqueiros’ storied El Nopal Press in LA’s Skid Row, the famous centre of spectacularly ignored planetary homelessness and mental illness. The location is important as it contributes to the complexity and inherent contradictions at play in the show. It is connected to the Pastor Project's pursuit of a wider programme of ‘dirty ontology’, which aims to stink up abstraction and objectivity.