Body of Matter presents the work of ten artists that advance our ideas about the body by exploring its materiality, stimulation, quantification using technology, integration with alien matter, and, finally, its obsolescence by simulation. How we think of bodies informs our sense of identity and marks the starting point for empathetic consideration of other people and forms of life. Yet, this thinking is confined by our personal experiences and collective knowledge of the body; the artists here expand on both by creating sensorial experiences for visitors and tapping into the hugely expanded knowledge of the body through fields such as Microbiology, Neuroscience, Genomics, and tissue culturing. These and other areas of study now make it possible to enhance, protect, monitor, stimulate, and replicate functions of the body and behavior of human cells as never before. Such abilities pry open doors of possibility for creative expression and prompt artists to materialize how these changes transform our long-held notions of identity and imagine the future they foretell.

With: Isaac Monté, Agi Haines, Emma Dorothy Conley, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Charlotte Jarvis, Floris Kaayk, Orion Maxted, Kirstin Neidlinger, Špela Petric  and Hongjie Yang.