Opening: Monday, September 8th, 6 p.m Fragmenting Obsolescence is a curatorial project comprising a series of exhibitions produced within the framework of BIENALSUR 2025. The project explores works and artists that challenge the modern notion of technological progress by suggesting potential fragmentations, ruptures, and fissures. This progress has led us to an unprecedented crisis, making it essential to imagine alternatives to the linear temporality that we adopt for objects, materials and beings. Gathering Technologies is situated at the intersection of three axes: the recovery of gathering practices, the use of obsolete technology, and interaction with non-human technologies and intelligences. Starting with an observation of the utopian promises embedded in current artificial intelligence developments, the relationship between technology and private capital is highlighted. Within this problematic framework, the body of works takes its stance: seeking escape routes and reformulations through other utopias and imagining alternative temporalities that do not necessarily align with the projected future. Thus, precision lies in observing what is usually found on the margins: the movements and aerodynamics of seeds; the gathering and recovery of discarded artifacts; and the collection of intangible waste. These practices broaden our understanding of gathering as a form of recovery, expanding both the scope of actions and the transformative capacity of techniques. The convergence of these approaches enables us to reconsider the obsolescence imposed on materials and objects, thereby fragmenting linear time. The aim is to disclose an interconnected system that encompasses matter in its various forms, as well as a concept of intelligence that incorporates multiple natural processes and other beings.
Image: AI SEEDS, tipa gan dataset