Imagining the Un-Apocalypse
Sade Arellano

Part of the 2022 programme Sci-Fi

Date TBA
Programme of Events

Sade Arellano is the 2021 finalist from the arebyte, hotel generation. The programme mentors the next generation of UK digital artists, based outside of London, during the critical early stages of establishing a career in the arts.

In this fictional universe, a glitch created by a group known as the Time Abolitionists have ruptured a portal that connects, merges with, and alters every possible and impossible future. Through interviews, confessions, dream-projections, and ritual ceremonies, the work critiques and proposes radically alternative ways to reimagine our understanding of the Apocalypse, and how we find ourselves and our communities situated at the end of time in collective narratives of speculative distant futures.

This will take shape as video work, an augmented reality app and sculptural elements in the space.


About the Artist

Sade Arellano aka @ex.icon works under various digital pseudonyms, personas and avatars. Using magic, myth, code, and AI, Sade’s practice dissolves, digests and discusses the expanding ecologies consciousness, what it means to be human/non-human, and how to exist in multiplicity across the virtual/the real.