NEW YORK, NY.- OFFLINE, a new gallery powered by digital art platform
SuperRare, announces its grand opening to the public on July 8, with Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time, featuring cutting-edge work by 15 artists who are forging new mythological languages for our digital age and celebrated with a week-long arts festival. Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time, guest curated by X.S. Hou and Jack Wedge showcase a diverse group of artists working fluidly across animation, painting, sculpture, living materials, and networked media to rediscover wonder in contemporary reality. The exhibition, on view July 8 - 25 marks the public opening of the new gallery space at 243 Bowery dedicated to showcasing the work of contemporary artists responding to the major technological shifts of today.
“We’re thrilled to open OFFLINE to the public,” OFFLINE director Mika Bar-On Nesher. “We envision this as an interdisciplinary art space, expanding digital art’s footprint into film, painting, sculpture, immersive installations, and performance. Hosting visionary curators and artists X.S. Hou and Jack Wedge to do an OFFLINE curation takeover is the perfect grand opening.”
Neal Cashman, Projector, 2025, cast plaster, acrylic, UV print, cherry frame, 19 × 16.5 in.
Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time includes rare New York appearances by international artists alongside a dynamic roster of experimental practitioners: Hawa Al-Najjar, Meriem Bennani, Neal Cashman, Barış Çavuşoğlu, Will Freudenheim, X.S. Hou, Gabrielle Ledet, Solomon Leyba, Chris Lloyd, Thomas Ludacer, Ezra Miller, muein, Injune Park, Ben Shirken, Ruby Justice Thelot, Yaloo, and Damon Zucconi.
A week of programming kicks off the public opening for the new gallery space, including site-specific dance performances on Saturday, July 12 by Isa Spector, Kate Williams, Iliana Penichet-Ramírez, and Reed Rushes. One performance weaves movement with digital display to explore the intersection of bodily energy and machine logic; the other reimagines an NFT auction as a choreographic ritual. Each performance is limited to 40 viewers. Additional events include a panel with SeedAI and a film screening.
X.S. Hou and Will Freudenheim, hallucinations on polycephalum I, 2025, physarum polycephalum slime mold grown on silk, pen plotter, 12.25 × 6.5 in.
"These artists reveal how our entanglement with technology can help us create myths that reconnect us to wonder, complexity, and a sense of the sacred," says curator X.S. Hou. The exhibition suggests that our current spiritual crisis isn't just about our technological inundation, but from our inability to relate to it with meaning. In response, these works point toward new mythologies—ones that hold space for spiritual and ecological depth in a disintegrating world.
Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time
July 8 - 25, 2025
OFFLINE
243 Bowery
New York City
Open Wednesday - Saturday | 12 - 5pm
Opening Reception:
July 8, 2025, 6-9pm
243 Bowery, New York, NY
Gallery Exhibition Artists Panel July 9, 7-8:30pm
Damon Zucconi, Jailbrake (still), 4K video.
Several artists in the gallery show will discuss their practice and its relation to the exhibition theme. Moderated by creative technologist Johan Michalove.
AI and Contemporary Art Panel with Seed AI: July 10, 2025 6-8pm
This panel unites policymakers, technologists, and artists to discuss how contemporary art can reframe urgent AI questions: alignment, algorithmic influence, and human agency in opaque systems.
Experimental Sound Performance + Ditcher’s Eddy Screening July 11, 2025 Performance 7-8:30pm Musicians San Huan, evilo, Dasychira + Embaci, and Yo Chill present sonic explorations from polyrhythmic dub-IDM to unpredictable textures from a living, homemade synthesizer.
Screening 9-10:30pm.
Brooklyn-based screening series Ditcher’s Eddy takes over for a selection of experimental short films.
Gabrielle Ledet, Dolores Dr. Opening, 4k video.
Dance Performance
The week-long festival concludes with two shows of dance performances.
Iliana Penichet-Ramírez, a Mexican-American dancer and choreographer whose work collaborates across disciplines to develop live works, video, and editorial projects. Penichet-Ramírez will present a duet exploring the intersection of bodily energy and machine logic, this choreography probes sites of contemporary physical ritual—where movement becomes both sculpture and engine. Playing with unison and rupture, the performers investigate the tension between control and collapse, fantasy and function.
Isa Spector, a director, writer, and choreographer based in New York will showcase. Their work embodies the absurd and intimate landscape of digital culture via dance, theater, and film. ... Spector has shown work at Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, PAGEANT, the 14th Street Y, and the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Los Angeles. As performers, they have worked with Korakrit Arunanondchai, boychild, Danielle Agami, Sam Max and Alexa West. As a movement director, Spector has worked with artists including ANOHNI, Steve Lacy, and Jeremy Dutcher.
Kate Williams and Reed Rushes
Star & Stan bring together the personas of Kate Williams and Reed Rushes. Described as 'something people have never seen before' (Elephant Magazine) they transport audiences to the fantasy world of Star & Stan, where they unpick structures of power, domination, submission, labor and capital while reclaiming and working within the mechanisms of gay shame. The personas meet as lovers in their work, melding “lovemaking and conflict” (Paper Magazine), they play a power couple desperate for fame and fortune. They mix the perverse and absurd with popular culture and Americana leaving audiences with the sensation that they’ve done “poppers in a bathtub full of money” (audience member).
Rushes holds an MFA from Bard College, where they received the OSUN Teaching Fellowship in Critical Cartography and Performance, and a BA in English Literature and Performance from Queen Mary University of London. Williams holds a BA in Dance and Human Rights from Bard College and the Ana Itelman Prize for Choreography. As a duo their work has shown at Performance Space New York, The Park Avenue Armory, Basilica Hudson, Art Omi, Centre for Performance Research, Entrance, Pageant and Les Urbaines Switzerland as well as at raves, in the streets and on beaches.
