Another Perception: Forms of Time, Whisper of the Other, Digital Traces 

With: Chen Xiaoyi; Semiconductor; Judith Roder; Marjolijn Dijkman; Wang&Soderstrom; Fei Yining; Emilija Skarnulyte; Long Pan; Marc Lee; Jacob Kudsk Steensen; Qiu Yu; Dillon Marsh

This exhibition continues the museum’s mission of research and collection in contemporary art. It marks the fourth installment in the museum’s contemporary art series since its launch in 2021—previous exhibitions include The State of Existence (2021), Seeing and Being Seen (2024), and The Pact with Nature (2025).

Another Perception: Forms of Time, Whisper of the Other, Digital Traces  (2026) continues the series’ ongoing focus on contemporary art, shifting attention from human conditions, mechanisms of seeing, and the human–nature contract toward the perceptions and expressions of the non-human world, introducing new lines of inquiry to the series.

This exhibition unfolds in three sections each corresponding to one of three dimensions of perception in which we need to immerse ourselves anew: Forms of Time (perceiving nonhuman timescales) Whisper Language of the Other (perceiving forms of nonhuman expression) and Digital Traces (perceiving the material traces of algorithms and data).

The exhibition, as the latest presentation in the Tsinghua University Art Museum’s Media Art Series, invites visitors to undertake an exercise in perception: to put aside for a moment the human perceptual scale and attend to how strata remember fungi communicate and algorithms make decisions. Featuring works in diverse media by twelve artists and collectives from nine countries, it focuses on how we perceive life, matter, and processes that are nonhuman or exceed the human scale. Here artists do not offer answers; rather, they create moments in which viewers recognize that their own perceptual capacities may not be enough. Rather than presenting a definitive outcome, they allow us to sense a faint “fissure” in the subtlest detail. In such moments, you become an open perceiver—attuned to worlds that have been overlooked by or remain beyond the reach of the human senses.

Tsinghua University Art Museum
NO. 1, Tsinghua University Campus, Hai Dian District, Beijing, China

Curated by: Diane Xing, Sun Yiwei