Blog Posts

Riot. Rally. Protest: Earth December 2019

A curated archive of found footage from protests, demonstrations, riots, strikes, and other political gatherings that occurred around the world during the last month of an increasingly turbulent decade.

Sensing Sound exhibition @ Musical Utopias #2

A sound art exhibition curated by Modern Body exploring augmented sound perception. Part of the program of Musical Utopias #2: A festival of Sonic Embrace (2019).

Modern Body Festival

A platform examining the nature of our current existence through thematic events that curate experiences: physical / visceral / immersive / intimate.

Modern Body Festival 2018: ALIEN BODIES

3rd biennial edition of the intermedial Modern Body Festival, seeking, confront and empathizing with the alien.

Modern Body Laboratory #2: Intelligent Artifacts & Breathing Spaces

Exhibition and performances curated by Modern Body to explore emerging themes and ideas in preparation for our next biennial festival edition.

Modern Body Laboratory #1: Alan Turing – Artificial Intelligence and Immortality

An evening symposium on Alan Turing, father of computer science and a pioneer in AI and encryption. Organized by Modern Body Festival in collaboration with Stichting ARTEk.

Modern Body Festival 2016: I/WE/THEY

2nd biennial edition of Modern Body Festival, exploring the social body, how we exist and belong in today’s networked world, and what the cultural borders of a globalized society are.

Space Media Festival Taipei 2016: I/WE/THEY

Sister edition of Modern Body Festival 2016 taking place in Taipei, initiated by Modern Body and DEZACT architectural platform.

Modern Body Festival 2014: Art as research through experience

1st biennial edition of Modern Body Festival, exploring how we perceive our bodies – viscerally, psychologically, vicariously – and taking place at the former headquarters of Europol.