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
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
Jordan Wolfson
In conversation with Caroline Busta and Lil Internet
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Text by Wong Binghao (Bing)
Alice Bucknell
In conversation with Sarah Johanna Theurer
Pete Jiadong Qiang
Text by Tadej Vindiš
Shuang Li
Text by Lina Martin-Chan
Gray Wielebinski
Text by Francesca Gavin
NDAYÉ KOUAGOU
Text by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker