ON THE EDGE OF THE INFINITE: PART IX
Date: December 13, 2025 Time: 6-9 PM Location: The Active Space, 566 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn (Bushwick) Admission: Free and open to the public
A Vertical Ascension into the Unconscious
On the Edge of the Infinite (Part IX)
Date: December 13, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: The Active Space, 566 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY (Bushwick)
Admission: Free and open to the public
BUSHWICK, NY
Please join us for the ninth iteration of On the Edge of the Infinite, a recurring curatorial project examining the liminality between cessation and the boundless unknown. This one night event is on December 13, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the show convenes artists whose practices interrogate the boundaries of the physical realm, precipitating a suspended state of meditative observation.
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Curated by Laura Horne, Steven Pestana, and Sophia Sobers, the exhibition features works by Inbar Hagai, Kat Ryals, jeanMILLET, Peter Venuto, and a live visual and sonic performance by Ryan DaWalt and Sestra Kuya.
“Everything happens so much.” - Horse_ebooks, 2011
This scrambled pseudo-sentence began its life as a nonsense phrase designed to evade spam detection, but its accidental clarity became a perfect description of both the web and our quickly accelerating era. It now reads more like a warning. In a swirl of constant distraction, everything flattens until nothing feels more important than anything else.
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“On the Edge of the Infinite, Part IX” gathers artists who respond to this flattening by building machines for belief.
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"So… you think we’ll make it?
I do.
Really?
Yeah.
But how?
I’m not sure.
I hope we do.
Yeah.
We will, won’t we?
I don’t know.
Right.
We will. We have to.
Sure.
Just have faith. Believe.
Yeah.
So, do you think we’ll make it?"
Written as a short dialogue between two unnamed voices, this text by David Temchulla can be read as a script for belief without guarantees. Temchulla's neon scribbles seem to map this Beckettian dialogue as a wavering line of voltage frozen in neon.
Working in virtual reality, Inbar Hagai presents an immersive piece that wanders dreamily up and across a cosmology, ascending from the carnivalesque towards a state of total abandon. Hagai’s work becomes a machine for believing that other ways of understanding are possible, that drifting and dreaming can also create coherent worlds.
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Kat Ryals works with a visual language of opulence which masks its own roots in inexpensive, marginal materials. Repurposing kitsch castoffs into elegant arabesque patterns, Ryal's textiles revel in the gaudy and suspect, revealing that these materials need no redemption to hold beauty.
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Peter Venuto brings his “rainbow machine,” a large holographic fan paired with a projection he calls Orpheus. Venuto's duo proposes a belief in shared presence, that shared physical and phenomenal experience might still hold power even in a time when attention is scattered and solitary.
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Sestra Kuya (Si Golraine and Gerry Gonzales), in collaboration with Ryan Dawalt, present a live performance in which electricity and magnetism are translated directly into sound. As voltage passes through titanium, Golraine paints with live current, DaWalt orchestrates magnetic force, and Gonzales shapes raw-voltage into modular soundscapes. Throughout, invisible forces and unseen frequencies emerge as a ghostly presence among us.
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Together, these works reroute belief through unexpected circuitry, operating outside sanctioned channels to generate new and unstable connections: trusting in invisible forces, in wandering stories, in repurposed materials and in shared time under spinning light.
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This 9th edition of On the Edge of the Infinite is curated by Laura Horne, Steven Pestana and Sophia Sobers and continuing an ongoing mission of advancing ephemeral art through light, sound, performance and experience.