Throwback to that twee tech
Spencer Chang, “Field Companions”
RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: Whispering stones, Organic enchantment, Romance
WHAT IT IS: Artist and technologist Spencer Chang has earned a rightful reputation as a beguiling designer who mixes the technological and the physical in unexpected ways. His new piece, made exclusively for Metalabel, is a series of small stones, collected in one of five specific locations, with an audio recording of the moment they were found embedded inside.
Spencer documented the process of acquiring and making these objects over the past week as the Artist in Residence on our Instagram. This week you can collect a Field Companion of your own. Romantic!
Yoona, “A Surreal Kind of Normal”
RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: USBs, Hyperrealism, Girlhood under capitalism
WHAT IT IS: Multimedia internet artist Yoona has built a practice of interrogating aesthetic symbols and internet girlhood across characters, visual poetics, and political theories. For her latest work A Surreal Kind of Normal, Yoona makes available a browser-based piece exploring the absurdity and dissonance of the contemporary human condition online by visualizing a “girl” who is not girl but… something else. Dive in with the digital piece, or collect the physical custom USB flash drive stored in ‘90s-style DVD casing. Glorious New Media.
COLLECT “A Surreal Kind of Normal”
NADA with Andrew Kuo and Andrea Bergart
RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: Interconnected arts spaces, Games of joy, The Game
WHAT IT IS: New Art Dealers Alliance is a collective we love that works to strengthen connections between institutions, galleries, non-profits, and small spaces across the arts ecosystem. This week they join Metalabel with a whopping three releases: two limited-edition basketballs (one from Andrew Kuo, one from Andrea Bergart), and a new NADA tote. Support art get art.
playinghouse, “la vie est ailleurs”
RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: Loving wandering, Escapism, Beautiful artist books
WHAT IT IS: Tapping into that joyous and inspiring feeling of looking out into the world, playinghouse brings to life a new photography book inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel La Vie est Ailleurs (or Life is Elsewhere). From Denizli, Turkey to Naoshima, Japan, and everywhere in between, the collection of film photography captures the momentary solace of not belonging.
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