Paradigm Shift Opens at 180 Studios Tomorrow

In partnership with Ray-Ban Meta

180 Studios presentsParadigm Shift, a major exhibition that will transform 180 Strand’s vast subterranean spaces to present some of the most acclaimed moving image works from the 1970s to the present, drawing from avant garde cinema, TV, music video, performance, fashion, gaming and internet culture. The exhibition opens tomorrow, 15 October, and runs until 21 December 2025.

Paradigm Shift features work by Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Dara Birnbaum, Foday Dumbuya, Cao Fei, Tremaine Emory, Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, JulianKnxx, Mark Leckey, Josèfa Ntjam, Pipilotti Rist, Martine Syms, TELFAR, Ryan Trecartin, Gillian Wearing and Andy Warhol.

Ever Is Over All, 1997, video installation by Pipilotti Rist (video still)
© Pipilotti Rist
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine

Looking back to look forwardParadigm Shift traces multiple revolutions within moving image culture. From Warhol Fashion TV in the 1970s to TELFAR TV today, the screen is a stage where everyone can be a broadcaster, commentator, performer, and artist.

Technology is central to the story: it shapes how the films are created, their visual language, and reveals our ongoing relationship to the screen as a site of self-production. These screen-based works draw from the language of fashion, avant-garde cinema, TV, music video, performance, gaming and internet culture framed through the lens of the artist. The experience connects the lineage of time-based media to today’s hyperconnectivity and rapid cultural exchange.

Jefferson Hack said:

“From the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and 80s to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment, video art and moving image have always operated at a crossroads: high and low, visceral and conceptual, personal and political. In Paradigm Shift, we see how great artists inspire us to engage with storytelling through screens differently: for us to feel more, imagine more and recover our senses.”

Several new works commissioned by 180 Studios sit alongside iconic historical works that offer a view of paradigms shifted by artists who rebelled against the status quo using the technologies available to them at the time for both realisation and distribution of their vision. Artists as community-makers have consistently blurred the boundaries between art, fashion and technology, innovating with form and format to break and change the rules of image-making and the image economy. Visitors to the show close the loop, as native agents of digital media and broadcast themselves.

A new moving image revolution is underway, and 180 Studios aims to provide the tools, spaces and community for it to take flight. An incubator for the next generation of artists, innovators and content creators, no longer beholden to bureaucratic media and cultural gatekeepers, 180 Studios offers new platforms for storytelling and production in order for the next paradigm shift to emerge.

Curated by Jefferson Hack and Mark Wadhwa

Associate Curator: Susanna Davies-Crook

Curatorial Advisor: Sean Bidder
Designed by Ab Rogers Studio

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Paradigm Shift: New Dimensions in Moving Image

in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta