Online exhibition: Silicon Valet x New Art City present Dismal Sessions 001-021

Text by CLOT Magazine

Silicon Valet, the virtual parking lot for expanded internet practice, has joined forces with New Art City, a virtual exhibition platform for new media art, to present Most Dismal Swamp: Dismal Sessions 001 – 021 on September 4, 2020. 

Most Dismal Swamp is an art platform, a social media account, a mixed reality biome, a curatorial MMORPG, a party, a forecasting laboratory, a miasma, a fiction, and a record label.  Dismal Sessions 001 – 021 will be on real-time accessed using a web browser, with no need to register, install extra software, or enter personal information. Using built-in tools to manage artworks and room layouts, anyone can create a show and hold a virtual exhibition online. 

Dismal Sessions is an ongoing series of dank mixes, fermented visions, sacred texts, trash vector collect calls, ambient occlusions, cursed ASMR, sublime leaks and bad datasets; an ecstatic content collapse. The Dismal Sessions are audio-visual artefacts by various visual artists, musicians, DJs, avatars, producers, machines, sprites, poets, homies, and more. 

This virtual exhibition brings together the first 21 Dismal Sessions. It is a sprawling underground festival in which to immerse, a thick tangle of uneven and combined heresies in which to lose yourself.

List of works: 
Session 001: Body Drift — “Did I Disappoint You?”
Session 002: Never Worse — “set 23.11.2019”
Session 003: Terence Sharpe — “WHAT LUXURY IT WOULD BE TO DESCRIBE THIS RACE AS CEDED”
Session 004: RJM Vanderheyden + Emilie Ruitinga — “Does the knife cry when it enters the skin?”
Session 005: IZEY — “Xaptation”
Session 006: Sol Bailey-Barker — “Wyrd Lodge: Black Temple”
Session 007: Alexandra Koumantaki — “Memories From the Valley of Uncanny”
Session 008: Mark Leckey — “The Catyrids are Leaving the City”
Session 009: Amy Cutler & Graham Dunning — “The Cultivator”
Session 010: Crisis — “View From Nowhere”
Session 011: Kid Xanthrax “HYPERGNOSISSY”
Session 012: Michelle Hannah — “GPT-3”
Session 013: An Trinse — “Ethics of Display”
Session 014: Agnese Cebere — “chrome_scan”
Session 015: Gerard Carson — “Petrobios 77 Lockdown”
Session 016: Lexxi Doomer (whiterose) — “ribs_sinner_lives”
Session 017: Sol Ring & billie0cean — “Untitled”
Session 018: SWARMM — “KENOPSIA”
Session 019: Thomas Yeomans — “Just For Today”
Session 020: ¥€$Si Perse 
Session 021: Anna Mikkola & Pekka Airaxin 

Website  https://newart.city/show/dismal-sessions
(Media courtesy of Most Dismal Swamp)