Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing
The Bronx Museum of The Arts
March 27, 2019 - September 1, 2019

An exhibition of artist-made machines that resist conventional notions of utility and functionality.

ALGIS GRIŠKEVIČIUS, 'THE FIRST LITHUANIAN ASTRONAUT'

2009, Toned Photograph

WIM DELVOYE, ‘CLOACA TRAVEL KIT’

2009-10, Mixed-media

PETER FISCHLI, 'THE WAY THINGS GO'

1987, Video projection

SHYU RUEY-SHIANN, 'DREAMBOX'

2012, Wolf 125 motorcycle, motors, metal construction, steel, wire, sensor, transformer

JOSÉ IRAOLA, 'UNTITLED'

2012, Giclee on photographic paper, unique print

JOHANNA UNZUETA, 'MURAL SINK'

2018, Felt, thread

All images courtesy of the artists, ‘Mural Sink’ image courtesy of the Artistand 57w57Arts Gallery

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