Kyriaki Goni
PROGRESS
February 20, 2025–March 2, 2025Onassis ONX, WSA, New York
The Breeder is pleased to announce Kyriaki Goni‘s participation in PROGRESS, the second annual Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition, which brings together six artworks by ONX members that play against the forward march of time. Using multichannel video, spatial audio, custom software, game engines, machine learning, augmented reality, and sculpture, each of these works emerge from creative practices partially defined by an intimate, domestic relationship with technology.
Participating artists: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou ⚬ Kyriaki Goni ⚬ Lisa Jamhoury ⚬ Matthew Gantt ⚬ Nouf Aljowaysir ⚬ Sarah Rothberg
Kyriaki Goni | Telling the bees
Telling the bees (The Game) is a speculative video/game presented alongside physical objects. In a near future the Beeseeker equipped with the smarologos—an ancient woven basket used to host bees, navigates the Aegean landscape ravaged by overtourism, wildfires and drought, looking for the last swarm of wild bees, that are thought to be vanished. As past, present, and future intertwine, the Beeseeker navigates an archipelagic landscape haunted by Cycladic spirits, AI entities, ghosts, and monsters. In this world alliances are forged between various intelligences—organic, planetary, and artificial—through acts of radical affection and care.
The title,Telling the Bees,refers to an old rural tradition found in various cultures, where people would inform bees of major household events, believing that failure to do so might cause the bees to abandon their home. Telling the Bees highlights the urgency of building worlds against destruction, grounded in alliances between humans and non-humans. At the same time, it invites players to explore alternative realities: parallel universes, mystical realms, and new ways of seeing and being.
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