Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter: Superradiance
945 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Saturday, March 29 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends May 3, 2025
Superradiance is a new multiscreen video and sound installation by artists Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter, curated by Paul Young and Neil Mendoza of Ctrl Gallery. Through a striking blend of dance, poetry, music, generative visuals, and artificial intelligence, Superradiance invites viewers to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment. The artists weave these elements together with code and simulations to create an immersive ritual space where technological mediation becomes a means of exploring embodied consciousness rather than escaping it. The piece leverages the neurological phenomenon of embodied simulation—our brain's tendency to unconsciously mirror the movements and experiences of others—such that unseen dancers embedded in animate environments transform forests, oceans, and deserts into extensions of our own bodies. This creates a visceral recognition that we are not separate from nature, but deeply entangled within it, challenging conventional boundaries between self and environment.