KHMxMMM: Cally Spooner

Rooted in her sociopolitical philosophy training, in the liveness of microlocalities, and in interruptions from everyday life, Spooner explores how digital and governmental hegemonies compel us to perform, then asks: how might we move differently?

Spooner’s talk will be shaped by “A Hypothesis of Resistance” (Mousse, 2024) a five chapter book in which she moves transversally between cultural, psychological and ecological scholarship, and daily life. Matters of fact and matters of concern meet and collide to expand on “liveness” as a refusal to settle. She then intends to jump out of the book into an uncharted convergence (typical of how she works) between an overgrown proliferation of grief in a home and its garden, Mike Kelley un-working his work in 1981, and an entropic wilderness where the Alps meet the sea.

About Cally Spooner

Cally Spooner (b. 1983) is a British-Italian artist working between Copenhagen and Northern Italy. Her work is currently presented at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2026); MIT List Visual Arts Center Massachusetts (2026); Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA); Chicago (pending, 2026). Her past solo exhibitions include Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Swiss Institute, New York; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; New Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Her live productions have been staged at (among others) Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London; Performa, New York. Her recent group shows include Biennale Son, Sion; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.