Post Scarcity Sculpture Opens on October 10th from 5-8pm
Post Scarcity Sculpture Opens on October 10th from 5-8pm
Post Scarcity Sculpture
Opening Reception: October 10th, 5-8pm
October 10th - January 25th, 2025
Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-5pm
44 Troy St, Fall River, MA
Free & Open to the Public
Featuring work by:
Alex Tum, Karyn Nakamura, Serena Chang, and Hanna Umin.
Post Scarcity Sculpture at FR MoCA gathers four artists—Alex Tum, Karyn Nakamura, Serena Chang, and Hanna Umin—whose practices operate as Futique Agents, working in the field of Art with material residue and technological detritus in a post-prophetic tense. Post Scarcity, the conceptual ground of the exhibition, names a politics that imagines an end to artificial scarcity enforced by capital, envisioning a condition where technological development and collective organization liberate human and non-human energies from cycles of deprivation.
In this exhibition, sculpture is redefined through soldered brass, cast plaster, resin, foam, computational circuits, video systems, and found refuse. The show centers a biomechanical site where the synaptic future and the industrial past converge. These objects function as future antiques, coded with fragments of war material, biological trace, and machinic residue, at once evidentiary and prophetic. Post Scarcity Sculpture frames these works as Futique Agents of a holistic informational shift, revealing how surplus, waste, and neural invention together constitute the emergent matter of social and aesthetic revolution.
This exhibition has been graciously sponsored by Fabric Arts Festival.
Post Scarcity Sculpture Opens on October 10th from 5-8pm
Post Scarcity Sculpture Opens on October 10th from 5-8pm
SOUND CELL ARTIST RESIDENCY
In addition to Post Scarcity Sculpture, FR MoCA is launching its new Sound Artist-in-Residence program with a site-specific, durational sound installation by M Azevedo.
As the inaugural resident, Azevedo will install sound-producing works in the newly designated Sound Cell, a semi-permanent exhibition space dedicated to artists working with sound, noise, and technology, located behind FR MoCA’s main galleries. To mark the opening of both the residency and the Post Scarcity Sculpture exhibition, Azevedo will present a live, improvised performance for amplified modular synthesizer during the exhibition opening.
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ARTIST BIO: M Azevedo (b. 1977 - Fall River MA) is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Providence, RI whose work is focused on the outer edges of human perception, in particular the liminal space between touch and hearing occupied by infrasound. They are most widely known for their recorded works and international performances as Retribution Body, composing site-specific works for architectural spaces driven into resonance by massive custom subwoofers.
After receiving their BM in Sound Recording Technology in 1999, M began a career as a mastering engineer of more than 2000 projects, including Grammy winners, over the last 25 years. In 2010 they accepted a research fellowship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where they earned a master’s in Architectural Acoustics while studying improvisation and composition with Pauline Oliveros. This led to a position of Senior Scientist at Acentech, where their research and consulting work focused on ambisonic auralization, acoustic simulation, and the design of performance and studio spaces for music. M is currently an assistant professor of Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell teaching courses in acoustics and psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, and advanced audio theory.
