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e-flux Screening Room 172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 In conjunction with Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, did not feel low, was sleeping, e-flux will present the full-length premiere of Barrio’s 2023 film ROBOTA MML. The film is the second in Barrio’s Material trilogy–on view in its expanded iteration at Smack Mellon from March 11-April 23, 2023–that employs speculative narratives and non-linear timelines to investigate the intersections between technology, labor, identity, and matter. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Laura Forlano, who is a social scientist, design researcher, and collaborator to Barrio on a series of sculptures that accompany the film in the installation at Smack Mellon.

Particle Matter is an audiovisual work created in collaboration with composer and sound designer Seth Cluett that Smack Mellon will present as a live performance activation in conjunction with Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition, did not feel low, was sleeping. A materialist investigation into matter and multitudinous manifestations of the micro, Particle Matter approaches its subject in a rhizomatic fashion, utilizing the language of the montage–the dialectical technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of moving images and sounds–to explore the forces catalyzing and created by the movements of the fragmented and microscopic; the pieces left over.