Photos: Sia Duff
MOD.’s 2024 exhibition, BROKEN, transcends time and reality. It suggests alternate universes, different ideas on what we could consider the new norm, and imagines how these ways could shape a better future.
The futuristic museum’s 2024 exhibition party invites visitors to experience BROKEN and all its glory after dark.
Taking place on Friday May 17 from 6pm to 9pm, the party will stretch out onto each level of the gallery, spilling into the outside platform.
The Filipino Project will serve up charcoal barbecue with the bold flavours Filipino food is known for — sweet, sour and salty.
Abbots and Kinney will have drinks sorted, where one of its cafés is located on the ground floor of MOD.
Fantastic Black Plastic aka Nick Gencarelli will be soundtracking the night. As the mind behind Endless Grooves parties, you can expect lively tracks to dance through the museum to.
While MOD. explores new concepts and ideas having a different focus each year, Exhibition Coordinator Dr Dylan DeLosAngeles says BROKEN is unlike anything MOD. has done before.
“It steps beyond despair or frustration and into a world of alternative systems,” he says.
BROKEN exhibitions are formed by the coming together of researchers, industries, and students featuring a mix of artists both interstate and local.
Adelaide’s creative studio MAPPED are behind the concept and production of MOD.’s foyer interactive installation Light Spending – a data driven light sculpture – which evokes questions on how we should pay for things that matter.
The exhibition is where science, art, and innovation intersect, and showcase how research shapes our understanding of the world around us.
Director of MOD., Dr Kristin Alford explains the exhibition confronts feelings of hopelessness.
“We live in a volatile, uncertain world and it’s no surprise that with climate change and AI, people feel like the world isn’t fit for purpose – it feels a bit broken,” she says.
“From the fight against climate change to the housing crisis, we seem to be struggling, but what if we imagined new ways of being? If our old systems are broken, what should we build in their place?
“This exhibition acknowledges that but equips visitors with skills in future-thinking, so that they can imagine alternatives and leave with a sense of active hope.”
Exploring different rooms of the exhibition, visitors can see how trees might vote in politics, explore how learning could mean more, hear a voice from 60,000 years in the future, put nature first and challenge the housing system.
The exhibition party offers an opportunity to immerse in these thought provoking concepts, alongside food, drink and music.
MOD. is also partnering with Sofitel Hotel with discounted accommodation as part of BROKEN party and are running a competition to win a $300 Sofitel Hotel voucher elevating the night with an city stay.
Head in for a night at the museum, and head out feeling just a little more hopeful than before.
BROKEN Party: Friday May 17 // North Terrace, (adjacent Morphett Street) Adelaide 5000
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