Group show: Andrea Sotelo, Cynthia Yee, Lucía Hinojosa, Maria Conejo and Maria Jose Cassaza

“The CCRU doesn't exist, never has existed, and never will”

Fotografía por Natalia Gaia

Intensive Hyperstitions

Chapter 1. The End of Capitalism

Andrea Sotelo. Columna, 2025. Barro con tezontle. 75 x 21 x 21 cm

The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an interdisciplinary collective founded in 1995 in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick, UK. Operating within poststructuralism, cybernetics, science fiction, rave culture, and occult studies, the collective (which remained anonymous for several years)) engaged in cultural analysis, hyperstitions, critical readings, and fiction theory.

Its members included philosophers, DJs, and cultural and media theorists such as Sadie Plant, Nick Land, Mark Fisher, Reza Negarestani, Luciana Parisi, and Kode9.

One of the proprioceptive technologies that the CCRU
conjured
is hyperstition... or fulfilled prophecy.

Maria Conejo. Consciencia iluminada, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. 150 × 100 cm

A reflective judgment where fiction becomes reality.
"The aim is to channel the living energy of fiction so that it becomes real, or, if you want to use more orthodox terminology, what you seek is to capture the idea itself by executing its natural movement, as free as possible from the personality that has acted as an intermediary."

Unlike superstition, which may not be fulfilled, hyperstition has a practical-relational correlate. To achieve this, it becomes necessary to renounce the narcissism of the proper name and its egotisms. Its technique dynamites the subject-object relationship to work with carriers, who pass off and modulate fictional forces. The bearers "...are defined by what they transmit, not by their 'origin.'"

Maria Jose Casazza. Sin título (Reposo), 2025. Archive photography. 40 x 30 cm

Intensive Hyperstitions. Chapter 1. The End of Capitalism is an exhibition (((inhibition of the present))) that uses hyperstition anachronistically, that is, it breaks linearity to glimpse the superposition of different spatio-temporal strata that show that the prophecy has been fulfilled: capitalism has come to an end.

What we currently consider works of art are in reality machines, maps, spells, transitional objects, sigils, and living surfaces that account for how the mutation occurred.

Artists are nothing more than a disguise - a mask - of the bearer. Media that metabolize codes, information, sounds, traces, and forces. Transducers Iridescent reflections that transform fiction into reality. Here you will find haptic and intense allegories of the paths and flows that settled and survived during the imminent change.

Participants: Andrea Sotelo, Cynthia Yee, Lucía Hinojosa, María Conejo, María José Casazza

Curator: Sandra Sánchez