UAAD Presents [EX UTERO] at ARTIFICE 004: An Immersive New Media Showcase

On April 5th, ARTIFICE—together with //PIXELMOUTH and UAAD—invites you into ARTIFICE 004: a showcase of twelve ARTIFACTS unfolding across two immersive environments, the WHITEBOX and the BLACKBOX. Hovering at the edge of a world undone, these works inhabit a vacuum between what has not yet died and what has not yet been born—a liminal zone suspended at the brink of the end.

Date & Time

Saturday, April 5th, 4pm-10pm

Location

47 Great Jones St, Bowery

ARTIFICE 004 unfolds across two floors:

◽️ WHITEBOX (Material Artifacts) Curated by //PIXELMOUTH

[ IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AND MY EARS ARE BLEEDING AND MY EYES ARE BURNING AND MY MOUTH IS FALLING OUT ]

La MaMa Galleria, 1F | 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM

◾️ BLACKBOX (Digital Artifacts) Curated by UAAD

[ EX UTERO ]

CultureHub, 3F | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

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In this chapter, UAAD proudly presents [Ex Utero] in the BLACKBOX space at CultureHub.

The apocalypse has arrived. Final cries are swallowed in liquid ruin. Time fractures, collapses, and disappears. No origin, no inherited form. Life no longer emerges from the womb but through rupture, mutation, and synthetic gestation. [Ex Utero], Latin for "outside the womb" or "beyond the uterus," is rebirth without a blueprint—an existence forged in the breakdown of structures, where form is never fixed, only recombined. No Garden of Eden. No return to dust. The mutants only remain in the ceaseless becoming.

[EX UTERO] isn’t your typical exhibition where everything sits still. The 6 ARTIFACTS—ranging from interactive installations and VR to audiovisual performances and screenings—act as portals into this unraveling reality. Structured along a timeline, each work unfolds in sequence. Depending on when you enter the space, you might encounter entirely different ways of being and worlds in the midst of becoming.

BLACKBOX ARTIFACTS (in chronological order):

[ ARTIFACT 1 ]

SPRING, WORM, WORM — Interactive Installation

by Jiayi Li, Audrey Chou, Jianhao Zheng

[ Spring Worm, Worm ] is an immersive performance installation that merges digital storytelling, projection-based scenography, and immersive soundscapes. It explores themes of fluid identities, femininity, and the ritualistic transformation of bodies. Through digital projections, interactive installations, and performative encounters, the piece tells a visual fairy tale about the unsettling truth, absurd fables, and cyclical nature of existence.

[ ARTIFACT 2 ]

SYMBIOTIC REVERIE: THE DANCE OF HUMAN-FLORA HYBRIDS — Installation & Audio-Visual Performance

by Yetong Xin, Rainee(Yunyi) Wang, Yilin Ye, Crystal (Yingbo) li

[ SYMBIOTIC REVERIE ] is an interactive projection mapping installation, exploring woman-plant connection in a reimagined landscape, this immersive storytelling invites dancers to an erotic florist utopia where the organic creatures of plants and women are fused, reversed, and intertwined.

[ ARTIFACT 3 ]

BODY TOOK — VR Installation

by Am'blance (Josie Williams, Sarah Allam, Emma Jiona Jones)

[ BODY TOOK ] is an immersive meditation on spectacle, abjection, and the uncanny intimacy of witnessing something that emerges only to disrupt or wither. Viewers navigate a fractured digital landscape—a ruin in flux, where organic and synthetic collapse into one another—while listening to an essay that contemplates the rare and haunting bloom of the corpse flower, an inflorescence emerging once every several years that emits a scent mimicking that of rotting flesh. The essay weaves together reflections on memory, queer femininity, and the slippery logic of scent.

Eventually, the viewer encounters the corpse flower herself—vast, pulsating, almost sentient—an artifact of a world caught in a state of ceaseless becoming, both ancient and newly born.

The VR headset is embellished with an intricate, sculptural headpiece of beads woven together with organic and 3D-printed elements. This headpiece, as it is adorned on a participant, transforms them into a performer, blurring the boundary between observer and artifact, presence and absence. Body Took is not just an experience but a ritual of becoming—an invitation to witness, to embody, and to dissolve into the speculative remains of a future where nothing is fixed, and everything is simultaneously in bloom and decay.

[ ARTIFACT 4 ]

TIME COILS — Screening

by LOREM

[ TIME COILS ] is born from an endless process of resampling, recomposition, and of learning. Each singular track from the album shares subtle connections with their counterparts, in addition to LOREM’s prior projects. The album is imbued with global cultural correspondence and reimagined connections sourced from a wide range of references, inviting the listener on an engaging quest to uncover hidden meaning and secret datasets.

The album is a reflection on the essence of intertextuality, and nudges us towards a transpersonal approach where identity is no longer anchored in originality, but is rather shaped by the myriad of relationships forged with the world around us. The richness of 'Time Coils' can also be credited in part to several of LOREM's longtime collaborators: Manchester-based producer Acre [Tectonics, PAN] and Italian sound artist and researcher Luca Pagan.tion as biological life wherever in the universe it can be found.

[ ARTIFACT 5 ]

ELEGY FOR A TERRESTRIAL COLLAPSE — A/V Performance

by Dan Gorelick, Yuj Archetype

[ ELEGY FOR A TERRESTRIAL COLLAPSE ] is an immersive ritual-performance around ecological grief that explores the breaking and remaking of this world. Dan Gorelick, joined by special guest Yuj Archetype, creates a collective embodied experience to process the fragile and changing nature of our planet at a geological timescale. The piece features spoken word poetry and an interplay of electronic and acoustic sonic elements – from cello, flutes, frame drum, and voice.

[ ARTIFACT 6 ]

CLAI by Interactive Items Art Group X Vasilii Miroliubov — Installation & Audio-Visual Performance

[ CLAI ] is a vibrant and interactive art experience. An attempt to achieve the effect of synesthesia (mixing of senses), where visual sensations determine tactile ones. Verbal input of the prompt allows for an instant change of the entire generated visual sequence. We are not just creating art — we are developing a new form of evolving artistic consciousness, where AI, humans, and the digital space merge into a unified process of creation.

This project can be viewed as an attempt to create a “living” digital organism that evolves through interaction with people. Here, art is no longer static — it follows the same laws of variation as biological life wherever in the universe it can be found.

Meanwhile, downstairs in WHITEBOX, six other works curated by //PIXELMOUTH invite you to taste the end of the world—through sculpture, installation, and live performance:

“IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AND MY EARS ARE BLEEDING AND MY EYES ARE BURNING AND MY MOUTH IS FALLING OUT”

WHITEBOX ARTIFACTS:

“CYBERNETIC TOTEM” by MAKS

“HOLDING THE SUN IN THE PALM OF MY HAND” by Gabriel Lee

“DAYS OF DEATH” by Ahona Paul

“APOCALYPSE NOSTALGIA” by Alex Romania

“LAST DATE” by J Alex Ray

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRUCTION by //PIXELMOUTH

Together, BLACKBOX and WHITEBOX form the two halves of ARTIFICE 004. We invite you to drift between them and step fully into the in-between.

⏳ APRIL 5 — ENTER ARTIFICE 004

RSVP now before the threshold closes.

Early bird pricing ends March 24 at 11:59 PM.

Past ARTIFICE collaborators and special guests may RSVP for free.

For accessibility needs or questions, contact: admin@artificenyc.org or DM @artifice.nyc on Instagram.

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ABOUT ARTIFICE [@artifice.nyc]

is a production studio and platform showcasing art, technology, sound, and design. We foster a cross-disciplinary exchange where the material and immaterial (digital) co-exist through ARTIFACTS.

ABOUT UAAD [@uaad.art]

Underground Art and Design (UAAD) is a platform dedicated to change-provoking artists and designers. Through virtual exhibitions, hybrid events, publications, and artist-led initiatives, UAAD creates space for those who exist between definitions and operate beyond prescribed structures.

ABOUT //PIXELMOUTH  [@pixelmouthnyc]

Founded in 2022, //PIXELMOUTH is a curatorial art collective obsessed with narrative storytelling and fascinated by how our physical and digital worlds interact. With a focus on environmental construction and capturing the ephemeral, their explorations have primarily taken shape as one-night-only shows featuring multiple interactive installation pieces alongside a fusion of music and performance art.