BHAM💥

BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine is an imaginary product and service designed to help humans come to terms with their impending obsolescence. 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 (human, machine, theistic entity) engage with it and has no interest in the entity's interpretation – be that honest recommendation, dark humour, or outright insult.

BHAM💥 exists as an independent website and is also included as part of the The Doughnut(W)Hole, a pavilion for The Wrong Biennale (7th Edition) 2025/26, curated by Kim Shaw which ran from the 1st of November 2025 to the 31st of March 2026.

Sarah-Jane Field is a participating artist, co-producer and web designer of The Doughnut(W)Hole.

The BHAM💥 zine was supported by The Mayor's London Borough of Culture and was launched at Putney Library in 2026, and can be purchased here.