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Bird[s] in [cyber]Space š¦
June 9, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Exhibit : June 8 to July 18 2022
Artist talk :Ā June 8th at lunch (12 to 1pm) at Imago
Opening reception :Ā June 9th 5 to 7pm
![Bird[s] in [cyber]space Profs. Samphire Green & Djinn Proxy](https://artslinknb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Birds-in-CyberSpace-1024x546.jpg)
The Binder Institute is a PokĆ©mon card research chair founded in 2018 by Professor Samphire Green at Tamamushi University’s School of Art & Design, Celadon City. Although focused primarily on print matter, the Institute acts more broadly as a think tank for pokĆ©demia (PokĆ©mon academia) and occasionally hosts guest researchers such as Professor Djinn Proxy, adept of video game music composition.
āBird[s] in [cyber]Spaceā
āI now realize that the anarchy of childhood ā that which resists to the prejudice of the adult world ā was always going to be key in my gaining access to my femininity, to my most fantastical desires. Today, I am a glamorous anarchist: I live out my transgendered PokĆ©mon professor fantasy on Instagram, writing honest, heartfelt, and informed analysis of cards pulled from my (auto)institutionalized binder collection.
These self-same anarchist affinities are how Professor Djinn and I eventually came to meet; having succeeded in defying his classical training as a percussionist, Djinn dons an experimental practice in glitchy video game-inspired music as the perfect counterpoint to his emerging practice as an illustrator of hallucinogenic technicolour nightmares. Together, our goal was simple: to cross that line between societal expectation and personal desire; to feel weird and to make others feel weird; āto be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevantā, in Jack Halberstamās words, and to ā[run] the risk of not being taken seriouslyā. This was to be the hallucinogenic technicolour guts of our experiment. Now all we need is a test subjectā¦ā
ā Prof. Samphire Green
This project is presented as part of the RE:FLUX Festival at the Imago Artist -Run Print Studio gallery in the Aberdeen Cultural Centre.