Awardee Events

How To Get To Zero: Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne

Project Premiere

September 13–December 14

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

How To Get To Zero presents a comprehensive look at Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne‘s solo and collaborative practices, which examine the present limits and future possibilities of political agency during our time of climate crisis. Over the past ten years, the artists have worked at the forefront of social critique and participatory art, examining subjects ranging from economic corruption to police surveillance, and from data manipulation to the commodification of everyday life. By repurposing the technologies used to perpetuate these conditions, Brain and Lavigne highlight the underlying conceptual and political frameworks that so often reinforce an unjust and repressive status quo.

Sam Lavigne

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Sam Lavigne, bald, dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, posing in front of an image of a woman with dark hair, posing in front of a white cow. Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation.

Sam Lavigne, bald, dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, posing in front of an image of a woman with dark hair, posing in front of a white cow.

Tega Brain

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A blonde woman, in a green and white dress giving a talk and standing in front of a projection showing a flock of starlings. Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems, and infrastructure.

A blonde woman, in a green and white dress giving a talk and standing in front of a projection showing a flock of starlings.