The inaugural edition titled Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen 2022 is organized as a  three-part exhibition under the rubrics of Reality Interrupted, The Return of the Real, and  Multiverse: Ecology without Nature. The exhibition examines various trajectories of how  artistic imagination has challenged and redefined the notion of reality under the technological  construct of spacetime manifestly accelerated since the mid-twentieth century and how such  artistic endeavors have brought to light the political, economic, and cultural conundrums and  creative potentialities implicated by a flattened and instantaneously digital contemporary. The  Covid-19 pandemic further aggravates the notion of perceived reality. Artworks conceived and  produced during the past two years amidst the harrowed existence will be included to bring to  the fore a new exigency that is catastrophically larger than human capacity while at the same  time prompting redeeming hopes for the solidarity of humans and things in a symbiotic  worldmaking.  

ZKM’s Art in Motion will be presented parallel to the thematic component Reality Interrupted to  situate the exhibition in a yet deeper time of media art history. The two exhibitions will utilize  Shenzhen Museum’s state of the art facilities, totaling over 8000 square meters (over 86000  square feet).