I arrived at Cloaca Projects (pronounced clo-ay-ca) on an inconveniently hot Bay Area afternoon with one concern in mind: my phone battery was in the red, and I needed to find a socket to plug into. How ironic, then, that Matthew Kneebone’s A Small Black Could Looking Substance – on view through August 31 – the installation I was there to review takes up our understanding of electricity and how the gadgets it powers shape us and the world we live in.

(Editors note — this is the first piece we’re publishing on Humble with an embedded sound clip. Clap your hands for us, read real slow, and then take the 6+ minutes away from the memes to actually listen to it.)

Exhibition Review by Roula Seikaly