Episode 4: Sudden Beams 2 - Extraction

OTOKA launches new space for contemporary art in vacant city centre shop with an audio-visual experience illuminating the speculative world of Asian futurism.

From the billowing dust of the Aral Sea to the emerging eco-horrors of Northeastern India, ‘Extraction’ proposes fresh visions of humanity and ecology through Asian-inspired science fiction and mythology.  

Via an audio-visual experience, we travel through time, space and memory. Sudden Beams 2: Extraction is a spiritual odyssey that explores fantasies of the future, religion and South Asian art, through artists’ film, sound and browser-based game.

A touring programme shown previously at arts venues in Brighton, Leeds and London, Sudden Beams 2: Extraction is hosted for the first time in a gallery setting at OTOKA and has been curated by Moritz Cheung for Sudden Beams and Platform Asia with exhibition design by OTOKA Director Candice Jacobs in association with Framework for Practice.

Produced by OTOKA and Moritz Cheung with support from Near Now, Broadways studio for arts, design and innovation and Arts Council England.

Private View 18 May 4-7pm with “in conversation” between Director of OTOKA and artist Candice Jacobs; Lee Nicholls the Creative Producer of Near Now (Broadway's Art & Technology Programme) and Moritz Cheung, curator of Sudden Beams 

Performances & Party 19 May 7-11pm with performances by artist Tom Harris 19.00 - 20.00, artist Chooc Ly Tan 20:00 - 21:00 and DJ M75 21:00 - 23:00

Exhibition open 20-28 May Weds-Sat 12-8pm, Sun 12-4pm, Mon-Tues closed