A dense digital collage on a bright orange background combining archival photographs, animals, flowers, abstract textures, and contemporary technology. At the centre stands a cut-out image of a young child in a striped swimsuit, surrounded by layered elements including a cat, a goose, mushrooms, red flowers, newspaper clippings, scientific diagrams, paint splashes, and a camera drone. Black-and-white family photographs and fragments of printed text are scattered throughout, creating a chaotic, playful composition that blends personal memory, natural forms, and machine imagery

BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine

Name: BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine
Start: 2026-03-19T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-19T19:30:00+00:00

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Thu 19 Mar 2026

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BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine will unfold as a reading/performance at Putney Library, London, on the 19th of March, 2025, from 6 PM.

Framed as an imaginary product and service, BHAM💥 processes whatever temporary configurations encounter it – human, machine, or otherwise – offering guidance not toward improvement or optimisation, but toward coming to terms with technological obsolescence and the limits of identity maintenance in an information-saturated culture.

Assembled from image, dialogue, and speculative self-help rhetoric, the work stages a presentation that may resemble a sales pitch, a manifesto, or a deadpan instructional seminar. An audience is invited to attend, play and contribute to the speculation (with refreshments provided).

Created for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion, part of The Wrong Biennale (7th Edition), a reading with games by Sarah-Jane Field is followed by a talk delivered by Doughnut(W)Hole curator, Kim Shaw.