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What is our relationship to our tech devices? How do smart devices exist in the world? What do we want from them? What do they want from us? "Our Non-Understanding of Everything" is a daily practice, where we observe and speculate of how our personal tech devices and their building parts exist in a possible future, shared between the architecture of circuitry, political thought and the wild and programmed parts of our natural environments. “Our Non-Understanding of Everything” signals a complete openness to learn, shift viewpoints, upturn embedded prejudices, discover, surprise and draw connections between phenomena and things that reside and operate in wildly diverse realms. The project aligns with non-representational ideas, in which events and encounters in the world are constituted through emergent, relational, and intangible complexities that cannot necessarily be articulated or contained within the particular ways we attempt to represent them.

eteam is a two people collaboration who uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetical universes. Traversing over earthly planes they trigger communication, collaborations and transformations between humans, nature, and technologies. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, they forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Eteam’s work is land- and process-based, often long term, situational and happens in places they don’t inhabit permanently. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole. Eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves and on mountaintops, in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons. They could not have done this without the generous support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel “Grabeland” was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020. They are represented by Gallery M29, Cologne Germany and Video Data Bank, Chicago.