ArtCenter presents Our Abyssal Kin, a new installation by artists Patty Chang and David Kelley. The installation is the artists’ most recent collaborative project exploring the impacts of deep-sea mining, and tells the story of deep-sea ecology within historical struggles for agency and liberation. A central artifact of the large-scale installation, “Stray Dog Hydrophobia” (2024) is a four-channel video that poetically narrates the ocean’s role as a resource. Glass and ceramic sculptures with animal and mineral specimens also invite viewers to meditate on our relationships with the pasts, presents, and futures of the vast abyss.