Feed Me

3 curtains in a showroom in Bergen

They said I could be anything so I became the content u fed me. Online radicalisation pharmaceuticals has become the new means of aligning identity with reality. Red pills, blue pills, black pills are being swallowed by diverse subreddits, positioning users in vast grids of affiliation. For the exhibition at Bokboden, Esben Holk continues their research into their content redistribution algorithms, content-avoidance and rabid onset content dysphoria and soft launches the Neon Green Pill; yet another semantic cyber pharma product that promises to align visitors with a new bespoke online doctrine: where there is no demarcation between the user as human and the user as content. The installation deploys memes, collage, worldbuilding and procedural programming, and includes 3 large scale textile pieces and a collection of autobiographical memes. The exhibition opens with a performance featuring Holk’s own large language model that is trained to be a prompt engineer for performances; the two of them will generate a participatory performance that questions humans' relationship to the content landscape on the feed, the tech (-billionaires) & the power of algorithms.