MMCA Interdisciplinary Arts 2026: Detective Time

About the Exhibition

In a contemporary climate that expects instant computation and answers from artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary art project names long-observing artists and children as 'detectives.' This year, multidisciplinary art's notion of the detective is a being whose sense of privilege has collapsed, one who shows that observation and inference are visual and logical acts as well as acts of the body and time, taking as its theme a 'deep and slow' time distinctive to humans, in contrast to mechanical speed. The exhibition likens this concept to 'deep time,' proposed by a Scottish geologist, contrasting it with the 'deep learning' of artificial intelligence, which rapidly derives optimal answers from data. A program spanning music, performance, theater, sound installation, and film — including Ryoji Ikeda and Ensemble Modern's Music for Strings, Mammalian Diving Reflex's Haircuts by Children, El Conde de Torrefiel's The Lake's Light, and Christopher Nolan's film Following — unfolds sequentially from April to December.