Furthermore, there are synergies in the collapse of individual sectors, most notably in linkages
between ecological collapse and civilization collapse.
For Pilgrim's time with AIT he will build upon a new body of work entitled «ERASURE» that focuses on the body as a site of action in at a time of impending
ecological collapse and the fusion
between human, non human species and machine in an era of hypermodernity.
Nadim Samman — general curator of the biennial — suggests the theme reflects, like the work submitted to the open call, such cultural developments as «
ecological collapse, the dissolution of distinctions
between «nature» and technology, the inescapable topography of the network, and the interplay
between transparency and opacity in the information age.»