To Fracture Time Is to Create an OtherwiseCurated by Barbara Cueto
June 2024 - December 2025
Web-based Commission, las-art.foundation
Eight writers and artists collaborate in a series of web-based artworks that interweave storytelling in science fiction and world-building in digital art.
To Fracture Time Is to Create an Otherwise, brings together artists and writers who use science fiction as both a medium and inspiration to create alternative realities across diverse media. A series of four collaborative artworks are released from June to November 2024 by LAS, with a new project unveiled every two months. Contributors were invited to create imaginaries that re-understand the future as a plural multiverse of world-building possibilities.
The first to be released is a video work by artist Sonya Dyer and writer Rivers Solomon. Entitled Portals, it is a story that follows an underwater odyssey in the Mediterranean sea, touching on histories of attempted and forced migration. In July a work by Chen Qiufan and Yehwan Song is released, which explores lucky charms present in East Asian traditions. It reimagines the charms as used by Gen Z to mitigate climate crises. For the third project, on view from September, CROSSLUCID works with Orion Facey to publish an online choose-your-own-adventure narration that explores techno-mysticism using generative AI. And in November, Herdimas Anggara and Luís Barragán present a project exploring an alien virus that travels between machines and humans and leads them to a form of psychedelic ecstasy.
Portals is a narrated video work, which results from a collaboration by artist Sonya Dyer and writer Rivers Solomon. In a combination of CGI, found footage and narrated storytelling, Portals recounts the odyssey of a central character, Amal.
