CURA. 41 – Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)

New World Agency™

New World Agency™
Fall Winter 23-24

Through an extensive investigation of the new productions and searches of international artists, the brand new CURA. 41, raises questions related to the ability of art and artists to have a transformative role as regards the apparent irreversibility of the events that impact our present.

New World Agency™

Through an extensive investigation of the new productions and searches of international artists, the brand new CURA. 41, New World Agency™, raises questions related to the ability of art and artists to have a transformative role as regards the apparent irreversibility of the events that impact our present. In a shift between fiction and reality, New World AgencyTM explores, with a transgenerational gaze, the artists who foresaw the building of new possible worlds and new modes of agency for alternative futures. Not only AI, CGI, videogames and virtual reality, but also highly advanced analog tools, animatronics, and mechanical devices are able to forge the imaginative, creative and narrative space of artists, founding new realities, in which mythology, ghosts, topoi, fables, childhood memories, technology, pop culture and magic, intertwine in the comprehensive illusion to be in different places and in part of it.

Ian Cheng

“A World is a super-organism you can believe in… Worlding is the art of an individual creating a World”

Contents

Intro

Text by Ian Cheng

Diego Marcon

Text by Travis Diehl

Cécile B. Evans

Text by Asma Barchiche

Mark Leckey

Text by Charlie Fox

Mike Kelley. TRAUMA ECONOMY

Text by Matt Copson

Mike Kelley. Goodbye Superman

Text by Jean-Marie Gallais

Agnieszka Kurant

In conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Helen Marten

Visual Essay

Martine Syms

Text by Ben Broome

Bernadette Corporation

Text by Countersubject

Anna Uddenberg

Text by David Andrew Tasman

Jordan Wolfson

In conversation with Caroline Busta and Lil Internet

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Text by Wong Binghao (Bing)

Gabriel Massan

Text by Tamar Clarke-Brown

Alice Bucknell

In conversation with Sarah Johanna Theurer

Pete Jiadong Qiang

Text by Tadej Vindiš

Shuang Li

Text by Lina Martin-Chan

Omsk Social Club

Text by Estelle Hoy

Gray Wielebinski

Text by Francesca Gavin

NDAYÉ KOUAGOU

Text by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)

Cover Story (Poster) Photo by Myles Loftin