SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Body

ArchaeaBot was featured in SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Body at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, where the exhibition ran from 18 February to 4 June 2023. The show considered how the body might be reimagined in the Anthropocene through sculpture, synthetic biology, robotics, and biogenetics, bringing together artists whose work addresses hybrid life, posthuman form, and technological transformation.

Within that context, ArchaeaBot offered a distinct image of future life. Rather than centring the human body itself, the work imagines an archaea-like survivor shaped by ecological collapse and machine intelligence. That perspective sat strongly within the exhibition’s wider themes of postnature, mutation, and technological-human metamorphosis, while keeping attention on adaptation, endurance, and the conditions under which unfamiliar forms of life might persist.

The Taipei presentation also underscored a wider strand in May’s practice: the use of technological systems to think through what remains after damage, what forms of intelligence endure, and how reality is reconfigured by scientific and computational mediation. In SUPERNATURAL, those questions were set within an international exhibition about the future body, allowing ArchaeaBot to speak not only to artificial intelligence, but also to climate, survival, and the unstable boundary between biology and design.