The foci of Swift Island Chain span artificial intelligence, human and computational translation, apocalyptic realities, and post-pandemic corporate dystopia. Kong probes at the gaps that result from geographic, emotional, and psychic distances, and manifest in mistranslations and misunderstandings.
A group of cultural workers exposed some artists’ disillusionment with the museum’s residency program and one participant’s alleged experience of harassment.
Tucked between the intoxicating fumes of spiced tagines at Zerza Moroccan Kitchen and neat rows of dried Japanese goods at Ni Japanese Deli is Mo Kong’s presentation “Lounge of a Prophet” at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space. The close proximity of Asian and North African delicacies awakens ancient, reductive myths about the Orient inside the contemporary food bazaar that is Essex Market on Manhattan’s Lower East Side where the gallery is located bringing forward the show’s main critiques.Beneath the exhibition space’s yellowed light, Kong has constructed what appears to be a modernist curio