Exhibition

NUW🌏RLDS

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When

22 June 2024 -
04 August 2024

Location

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Taking full advantage of 4A’s new metaverse platform 4A+, NUW🌏RLDS is a hybrid group exhibition exploring contemporary visual art within an ever-evolving spectrum of technology. 

With works flowing between the physical gallery and digital exhibition space, this project consolidates and fully integrates 4A’s vision for the future.

By dissolving the physical boundaries between the white cube (or black box) and immersive, programmable 3D spaces, 4A recontextualises emergent digital art in a project embracing the creative endlessness of NUW🌏RLDS.

Accessibility info:

AIDOL by Lawrence Lek is a feature film that runs for 83 minutes. If you would like to plan to watch it in its entirety at 4A, showings run at the following times during opening hours, Wednesday - Sunday:

11:00am (Gallery opens)
12:23pm
1:46pm
3:09pm
4:32pm (Gallery closes at 5pm)

Public Program

NUW🌏RLDS: ARTIST TALKS
Saturday 22 June | 1pm–2pm
Free | Held in-person at 4A
This event has ceased

NUW🌏RLDS x UTS Digital Talks
Tuesday 16 July | 6pm–8pm
Free | Held in-person at UTS
Register here

INJURY x REAL PARENT, 'INTERMUNDIA', 2024, Mixed media installation with foamcore characters, garments, two-channel video, 1m 26s, courtesy the artists; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Corin Ileto and Tristan Jalleh, 'Lux Aeterna', 2023/24, Mixed media installation with three-channel video, 2m 52s, courtesy the artists;  photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Corin Ileto and Tristan Jalleh, 'Lux Aeterna', 2023/24, Mixed media installation with three-channel video, 2m 52s, courtesy the artists;  photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
aaajiao, 'bot', 2017–18, single channel video, colour, 15m 32s; Website, courtesy the artist; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
aaajiao, 'Prompt/Engineering', 2024, acrylic structure, ink screen, circuit board, microphone, single channel video, 1m 39s edition 2/2, courtesy the artist and the collection of Julia Mao; ; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Lawrence Lek, 'AIDOL 爱道', 2019, CGI feature film, 83m., courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Raqs Media Collective, 'An Infra-Vocabulary for Capital', 2023/24, Vinyl on wall, courtesy the artists; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Tùng Monkey, 'Tu Phu (Four Palaces - 四府)', 2021, five-channel video, NFT, courtesy the artist; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Laurens Tan, from Chengyu series 'Zhong Guo Te Se (中國特色) Chinese Identity', 2009, 3D modelled photomedia editioned inkjet print on Archival Fuji Fine paper Edition 2/8, Courtesy the artist; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Laurens Tan, from Chengyu series 'De Guo Qie Guo (得過且過) Whatever: Blindly Following a Path', 2009, 3D modelled photomedia editioned inkjet print on Archival Fuji Fine paper Edition 1/8 // Laurens Tan, from Chengyu series 'Hotel Utopia a Dusk (左右為難) I don’t know my left from my right', 2009, 3D modelled photomedia editioned inkjet print on Archival Fuji Fine paper Edition 2/8, courtesy the artist; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
Henry Lai-Pyne, 'NEXUS', 2024, two-channel video installation, two-channel audio, courtesy the artist; photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024.
NUW🌏RLDS, 2024, Installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; photo: Kai Wasikowski.
NUW🌏RLDS, 2024, Installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; photo: Kai Wasikowski.
  

Top image: Corin Ileto and Tristan Jalleh, Lux Aeterna (still), 2023, single-channel video, stereo sound. Courtesy the artists.

NUW🌏RLDS is supported by the Sidney Myer Fund. 4A LAB and NEXUS by Henry Lai Pyne is commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and realised with the support of City of Sydney's Innovation and Ideas grant.