In this [c] Word talk, Sarah-Jane will discuss the development of BHAM💥– The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine for The Doughnut (W)Hole Pavilion at The Wrong Biennale. Join us on Tuesday, 3 February at 5:30pm UK-time for this fascinating discussion! Tickets are available now in our shop for £15.

BHAM💥– The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine – is an imaginary product and service designed by Sarah-Jane to help humans come to terms with their impending obsolescence. BHAM💥 was made for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion as part of the Wrong Biennale 7^th Edition, which runs from 1st November 2025 to the 31st of March 2026. Sarah-Jane is a participating artist, co-producer for the pavilion, and website designer for The Doughnut(W)Hole. In this talk, Sarah-Jane will describe the concepts within and the process of creating BHAM💥.

BHAM is assembled from seemingly disparate images, it is a conceptual object that provides guidance and self-help exercises – not for purchase by consumers, but to demonstrate how purchasing, consuming, and identity maintenance operate as informational pattern-creation within the limits of one’s parochial position. It processes whatever temporary configurations, such as ‘human, machine, theistic entity’ for example, engages with it, and has no interest in interpreting the resulting form. The response BHAM gives can be an honest recommendation, dark humour, or an outright insult.

Sarah-Jane Field is a UK-based artist and writer whose practice explores contemporary art, technology, and creative research. Writing includes contributions to Lexiconia (2024), a research initiative examining evolving language around generative AI; Source Magazine (online) – ‘Beyond Romanticism: Relationship Advice for the Now’ (2023), which invites readers to reconsider their relationships with technology; and ‘Aftertaste’ (2024), a blog contribution around accusations of kitsch in AI images for [cloud] collective, which is to be published as longer article elsewhere in the coming months. Her project ‘why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/’ (2022) was recognised with an award from Format Photography and exhibited at Quad Gallery, Derby. In 2015, she co-produced a pavilion for The Wrong Biennale and attended the 2025 School of Materialist Research summer school. She holds an MA with distinction from Central Saint Martins and a First Class BA in Photography from the Open College of the Arts.