Prototypes for Cyborgs: A Space Opera

June, 07 Saturday 12:00PM - 05:00PM

Cove Hill, Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland. F92 C8HD

Interactive Exhibition - Suitable for all ages

Enter a realm where machine, myth, and flesh entwine—a speculative zone where transhumanist dreams and posthumanist critiques clash in a ritual of light, sound, and sculptural assemblage. Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera is an immersive exhibition that transforms the gallery into a hybrid landscape of playable sculptures, video works, Virtual Reality and interactive installations, commencing in a one-night-only performance.

At its core, The Nowhere Belly emerges as a cybernetic infrastructural worm deity, a reimagining of the mysterious subterranean Crom Cruach infused with the radical philosophies of Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway. This chthonic entity pulses with sound and touch-responsive elements, creating an interactive threshold for audience engagement. Opposing it is The Everything Vault, an imperial force represented through its sub-nodes and fragmented avatars—YURT, Metal Slug Seer, and Towards Super-Connection—manifesting the allure and dread of techno-capitalist immortality.

The exhibition orbits around the YURT, a skeletal structure of steel and fluorescent light, a temporary gathering place for the rites of transhumanism. Accompanied by the biomorphic Metal Slug Seer, a priestly cipher for those who seek escape from death, the YURT becomes both sanctuary and machine-temple. A vision of becoming cyborg is manifested darkly with A Portrait of an Artist as a Transhumanist (PAT), a modular sculpture and digital entity exploring the ultimate artistic medium—the self, rendered as data, unshackled from biological form.

 

No need to book, just come along and enjoy between 12pm and 5pm.

 

Venue:

Regional Cultural Centre
Covehill
Port Road
Letterkenny
Co. Donegal
F92 C8HD