EROTECH
■ CYCLE 3
S/S 2026
AboutViet Voices proudly announces EROTECH, the culminating exhibition of the third AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship, on view from July 11 through August 7 at A Reason To Survive (ARTS) Gallery. Featuring new works by X, Kelsey Boncato, Lucy Mu Li, Armaan Mumtaz, and fellow artists of the 2026 cohort, EROTECH invokes multidisciplinary practices for observing intersections between traditional and digital forms of art.
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LUCY MU LI
LUCY MU LI
X
X
KELSEY BONCATO
KELSEY BONCATO
ARMAAN MUMTAZ
ARMAAN MUMTAZ
Drawing inspiration from Audre Lorde's seminal essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, EROTECH calls upon audiences to re-adopt the erotic as a primordial essence—an embodied intelligence capable of disrupting systems that sever feeling from knowledge.
Participating artists explore how contemporary technologies shape our capacities for intimacy beyond the systemic gaze of extraction: Boncato intertwines projection and painting through the lens of Filipino dreamweaving traditions, while Li debuts an installation centered on her newly published artist book documenting land-based performances in the high desert. Mumtaz reimagines the intersections of Catholic and Islamic faith through a synthesis of drawing and textile practices, and X constructs a participatory environment that invites reflection on the ocean’s precarity and humanity’s entangled role in its unfolding future.
The exhibition attunes viewers to slow down and consider the erotic as a technology of reconnection– to the body, to the invisible, and to indigenous futures not yet imagined. Across speculative landscapes, these artists construct interventions for belonging in a time of ecological and technological tension. As digital infrastructures increasingly govern everyday life, the artists gathered here seek alternative pathways toward aliveness, authorship, and preservation of identity.
THE EROTIC AS TECHNOLOGY OF RECONNECTION
What remains real when attention economies continuously shape how we consume, feel, police, and desire? How might emerging artists steward audiences toward forms of submergence—into nostalgia, grief, and dreams?
