Thursday June 15, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Faith Holland
In conversation with Jeanette Bisschops
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Faith Holland in connection with her current solo exhibition “Death Drive” at the gallery. Holland will be joined in the conversation by curator and art critic Jeanette Bisschops.
The discussion will center around the sculptures, videos, and digital prints on view by Holland, some of which incorporate actual food mold and others that involve AI learning techniques. In “Death Drive,” the artist speculates about what a decay process for technological devices — some components of which are currently estimated to take more than a million years to deteriorate — might look like both physically and virtually, “by sparking an AI system’s imagination.”
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“Death Drive” continues through June 24, 2023. Further information about the exhibition can be found HERE.
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Jeanette Bisschops is an independent Dutch curator, art critic and writer residing between New York and Amsterdam. Driven by an interest in expanding and challenging dominant narratives, her projects research how artists’ practices are challenging our social imagination. She was Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, New York between 2019 and 2022 and served as Curatorial Assistant for Time-Based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam between 2016-2019. She holds a Master’s in Psychology from Maastricht University and a Master’s in Art History from the University of Amsterdam.
Faith Holland is an artist whose multimedia practice focuses on gender, intimacy, and technology. In works that exaggerate our physical and embodied relationships to technologies, Holland uses equal measures of humor and tenderness in sculpture, performance, video, animated gifs, and net art works. Previous solo exhibitions include at TRANSFER (New York/Miami) and at L’Unique (Caen, France). She has also exhibited at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf), Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and DAM Gallery (Berlin). Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times UK, Elephant, Hyperallergic, Broadly, and The Observer. She has been a NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art, an artist-in-residence at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Harvestworks, and a finalist for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Post-Photography Prototyping Prize. She is the recipient of a 2021 New York State Council on the Arts grant. Faith Holland lives and works in New York, NY.