EMILY NOLA

Emily Nola (she/they) is a curator, writer, and researcher based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Working in research-based and cross-disciplinary methodologies, her work is interested in technology, mediation, and contemporary culture. She is deeply invested in alternative pedagogical strategies and collective practices.

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6 Parables for Proxies

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Parables for Proxies
Jordan Vinyard
Collar Works, Troy, New York
January 27th- March 5th, 2023

Our lives are based on a concession of volts; the numerics of bars, power, and connection are our confidants and security. Parables for Proxies calls popular ideas concerning post-humanistic futures a counterfeit. Instead of bodies adorning machinic qualities of strength and efficiency, they are becoming less posthuman and increasingly subhuman. We have segmented ourselves; contact is via zoom, transcribed through texts, and parsed through social media. The body has been reduced to parts, pieces, and clipped experiences. The works in Parables for Proxies use a desperate Frankenstenian practice to symbolize slowly putting bits of life back together again. This exhibition is about reestablishing the virtue of the physical body. Consisting of kinetic sculptures, multi-media installations and video/performance, Parables for Proxies acts as an alarm for societal reboot; where viewers are asked to recognize the deep need for humanistic responsibility and presence within a technological culture.