SUPERRADIANCE Reception • CTRL Gallery • Memo Akten + Katie Peyton Hofstadter

Saturday, Mar 29

6:00pm – 9:00pm

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Los Angeles, CA

Please join us for the opening reception of SUPERRADIANCE, a multiscreen video and sound installation by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter that invites the viewer to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment. Curated by Paul Young and Neil Mendoza of Ctrl Gallery We know that we are deeply embedded within complex assemblages of life, interdependent physically, chemically, and biologically, across multiple scales of time and space. It's one thing to intellectually know this, but how can we feel it, in our body? Dance is one of our earliest biotechnologies. Through ritual and ecstatic dance, we dance to experience union with the universe directly. Leveraging the cognitive phenomenon of embodied simulation - where, as you observe another person moving, you feel their movement in your own body - the work combines poetry and dance, woven together with code, simulations, and generative AI, to evoke a visceral, intimate connection to the living planet, inviting us to not only observe, but also feel this connection in our own bodies. SUPERRADIANCE by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter superradiance.net opening March 29, 6-9pm CTRL Gallery 945 Chung King Rd Los Angeles https://www.instagram.com/ctrl.gallery.la/