{"product_id":"dec-6th-a-cell-is-a-carnival","title":"Dec. 6th-8th: A Cell is a Carnival","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA CELL IS A CARNIVAL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDECEMBER 6-8, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOPENING NIGHT EVENT: FRIDAY DEC 6 \/\/ 7 PM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSix games at the arcade, six candles for the summoning, and six stars in the constellation. Six ghosts in the shell. Six artists in transit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are infinite ways of mapping any six points in the spacetime continuum. This is but all of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Cell is a Carnival\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an experiment in nested proximities and mixed metaphors: body as fairground, ritual as network, wormhole as world. Featuring new works by six media artists from UCLA’s Design|Media Arts MFA program (Chelly Jin, Rowena Kou, Sadia Quddus, Sagan Yee, Stamatis Hamouzas, and Xiner Lan), the show celebrates the osmotic ability of art and technology to move through permeable boundaries of selfhood and community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs emerging artists, we operate as organelles, barkers, and daemons. We seek to replicate, merge, and evolve in concert with friends and familiar strangers, while maintaining tenuous boundaries of individual autonomy. Inspired by images of organic membranes and the cloth walls of circus tents, our collective practice also functions as a fluid structure, shifting endlessly between solitude and belonging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe especially invite you to join us for our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening Night event on Friday, December 6 at 7 PM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. As you cross the gallery threshold, you will discover such curious delights as: an encrypted hand puppet, divinatory technologies, consensual eavesdropping, teeth as a symbol of eroded time, the gamification of the mammalian reward system, and kaleidoscopic fragments of self and memory. We invite you to enter, to circulate and celebrate, to absorb and be absorbed in turn … and then to break away, retreat, and say our fond farewells. Until the next time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFEATURING ART BY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chellyj.in\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/chellyj.in\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChelly Jin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenish._.rowena\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenish._.rowena\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRowena Kou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sadia.space\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/sadia.space\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSadia Quddus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.saganyee.com\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.saganyee.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSagan Yee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dredgeops\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dredgeops\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStamatis Hamouzas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/xinerlan.com\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/xinerlan.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXiner Lan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan id=\"m_9121052597684911013gmail-docs-internal-guid-6762a251-7fff-d570-aefd-accc7fd38b1e\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis show is part of A CELL IS A CARNIVAL, a three-part series of events taking place across Los Angeles during the first week of December. It was conceived as a means to cultivate a community-building and exhibition practice beyond the university campus. 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