post 2 post is a collaboration between writer Paul Boyé and artist Ella Valentine. They have recently converged with a mutual interest in 'posting,' which names the activity of casually producing content and sharing it online, often without much thought or feeling. Posting is both ecstatic and mundane, a kind of compulsive anti-diary, a subconscious ramble, and a first-thought-best-thought dumping into the endlessly accepting receptacle that is social media. Even though they work intentionally and autonomously in their respective practices, the impulse to post remains.

At the core of the work is an improvised exchange of 'something-posting' phrases—happy-posting, grid-posting, lite-posting, drink-posting, etc.—that captures the fecundity of posting through a repetitive and tedious score. Here, they dig deeper than their usual off-the-cuff posting habits: Is posting work? Are we numb to the pains of being exploited for our data, harvested to train machine learning models and produce market insights? Other works in the exhibition will draw from the affective and perverse consequences of posting. They look to observations on influencer culture as a large sample space of the current internet cultural crisis. At this moment, they are drawn to dissecting the recent trend of promoting ‘journaling’ as a wellness practice alongside hydration encouragement ephemera as a closed-loop system between health and content.

Image Credit: Paul Boyé and Ella Valentine, I JUICED THE ORB / EXPERIENCING ME,2024, digital image