A collaboration between PRAKSIS and RAM Galleri
at Kongens gate 15, 0153 Oslo
Join artist Adam Peacock as he offers an intimate insight into the ideas, research and processes behind the exhibition, The Validation Junky.
About the exhibition
The Validation Junky, a collaboration between PRAKSIS and RAM Galleri, brings together ambitious new artworks and research by British post-disciplinary artist/designer Adam Peacock. At the front of RAM gallery, drawings and video works by Peacock speculatively map possible futures of a technologically enabled human evolution, while the rear gallery showcases a major body of research generated by Peacock in Oslo during his September 2021 PRAKSIS residency Perfection / Speculation. Peacock’s research features thought-provoking video interviews between the artist and four leading protagonists in the fields of new technology, identity, the body and the perception of self: author of The Transhuman Manifesto Natasha Vita-More, Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT Mark Jarzombek; Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Lev Manovich; and science-fiction artist, filmmaker, inventor and body architect Lucy McRae.
Residency partners The Vigeland Museum and queer live events coordinators Karmaklubb* helped shape this research. Peacock’s interviews are staged within the Museum’s dramatic display of works by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943), reminding that lived experience for both normative and non-normative bodies is modelled by body cultures of the past as well as present and future technologies such as social media, AI and CRISPR/Cas9.
About the artist
Adam Peacock is a British post-disciplinary artist, architect, and academic. His work has appeared in museums, galleries, scientific forums and educational institutions worldwide. Recent exhibition hosts include the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2023), Tecnológico De Monterrey, Mexico (2022-23), and Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2021).
As a Visiting Professor at the School Of International Art, Beijing, Peacock leads the Future of Fashion, Identity and the Metaverse Masterclass (2020- present); other universities at which he has taught include London College of Fashion, the Royal College of Art and Melbourne School of Design. He has consulted and designed for architects, fashion and vehicle designers, urban planners, and educational institutions, including Audi, FIAT, Heatherwick Studio, NEOM Saudi Arabia, Science Gallery Network, and Stella McCartney.
