“I have been researching artists working at the intersection of performance and simulation for many years,” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) curator Anna Davis tells me about Ultra Unreal: New myths for new worlds, an exhibition that evolved from ongoing Australian and international research. “I was interested in how artists were simulating and performing other realities, and by doing so, creating new worlds.” From this research, Ning Ken's concept of the ultra-unreal emerged as a key theoretical frame.
“Ning's idea was complex, dealt
