BHAM by Sarah-Jane Field: Reading, talk, games and refreshments

Thinking about AI-induced obsolescence? Experience BHAM – The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine, a handy guide for soon-to-be obsolete humans ...

BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine will unfold as a reading/ performance at Putney Library, London, on the 19th of March, 2025, 6 PM.

Framed as an imaginary product and service, BHAM💥 processes whatever temporary configurations encounter it – human, machine, or otherwise – offering guidance not toward improvement or optimisation, but toward coming to terms with technological obsolescence and the limits of identity maintenance in an information-saturated culture.

Assembled from image, dialogue, and speculative self-help rhetoric, the work stages a presentation that may resemble a sales pitch, a manifesto, or a deadpan instructional seminar. BHAM💥 has no interest in interpretation, whether offered as sincere endorsement, dark humour, or outright rejection.

Refreshments will be provided.

A reading by Sarah-Jane Field with games will be followed by a talk delivered by The Doughnut(W)Hole curator, Kim Shaw. A BHAM💥 book (or do we mean a brochure? 😉) will be available to purchase.

BHAM💥 was developed for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion as part of The Wrong Biennale (7th Edition) 2025–26. This event is supported by The Mayor's London Borough of Culture and is free. However, attendees can support Earlsfield Food Bank by donating the cost they would have expected to pay for a ticket here. The donation is optional. 100% of funds donated via this link will be transferred following the event.