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vibrARTion · 2026 Action Project
IN BETA
A curatorial action project engaging systems already in motion, yet unresolved.
CONTEXT
Project Context
Across artificial intelligence, technological infrastructures, economic systems, and social mechanisms, contemporary reality no longer moves toward stable resolution. Instead, it operates through continuous revision.
Judgement is recalibrated in real time. Positions shift before they settle. Completion has ceased to function as a default horizon.
This condition is no longer transitional. It has become a structural feature shaping artistic practice, curatorial work, and knowledge production.
IN BETA is conceived within this condition.
QUESTIONS
Core Questions
1. If completion is no longer the assumed endpoint of artistic practice, how can curating engage with realities already in operation?
2. If instability has become a long-term working condition rather than a temporary phase, how might art reposition itself beyond result-oriented frameworks?
3. As artificial intelligence and non-human systems enter real-world operation, how can artistic practice respond to a reality no longer organised around a single subject?
These are not speculative propositions. They describe conditions already shaping the present.
CURATORIAL POSITION
Curatorial Position
IN BETA does not ask whether a work is finished. It asks how artistic practice positions itself within a world that remains structurally unsettled.
A work may be formally complete while the systems it engages—technological, social, epistemic—continue to operate, mutate, and reconfigure meaning.
Within the context of artificial intelligence, authorship fragments, identities multiply, and judgement circulates across human and non-human agents.
IN BETA approaches this condition as a given reality and develops its curatorial logic accordingly.
STRUCTURE
Project Structure
IN BETA unfolds through parallel online and offline formats.
Online Presentation (Phase I)
- Each invited participant is represented by an independent project page
- The page articulates the operational state of a practice at a specific moment
- Completion is not required; clarity of positioning is
The online structure forms the project’s primary framework and reference system.
Offline Presentation (Subsequent Phases)
- Exhibitions, gatherings, or spatial interventions across different countries and regions
- Developed in response to project progression and real conditions
- Offline presentations function as moments of re-positioning
MECHANISM
Operational Framework
IN BETA advances through curatorial judgement.
Participation occurs primarily through invitation. The project also considers targeted recommendations from artists, researchers, and institutions. All participation is subject to curatorial assessment. Recommendation does not automatically constitute inclusion.
PARTICIPATION
Participation
Required Materials
- Core text (300–800 words)
- Visual materials (3–8 images)
- Basic information (title, year, medium, dimensions, current status)
- Authorisation for public presentation
Submission & Enquiries
Project enquiries and material submissions:
projects@timecommons.org
AIM
Project Aim
IN BETA does not seek to summarise an era or resolve uncertainty.
It establishes a curatorial structure through which ongoing world conditions can be identified, practices positioned, and references sustained over time. The project proposes a framework for recognising how art operates when stability is no longer presumed.
INSTITUTIONS
Institutions & Platforms
Time Commons
Asian Art Research Centre (AARC)
VibrARTion Press