Events
*The Presence of Future Opening reception: Postponed
The Presence of Future
A group show of local and international artists.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
$5 donation
location: Division of Human Works
We are nearing the end of 2010, the year portrayed as a futuristic utopia in the classic animated sitcom, The Jetsons. We are five years away from 2015, the farthest year ahead Marty and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future. The years of our future, anticipated for decades, are here. How similar are our present times to what was imagined? We do have some very fancy gadgets and nuclear physicists working with a Big Bang replicator, the Large Hadron Collider, at the Cern research center in Switzerland. Yet, we are certainly not traveling in personal hovercrafts and many of us are living in old decrepit buildings. What do you think Joseph Beuys would think about the current state of the Green Party?
Things are not quite what we had expected them to be. Yet then again, things are definitely in an extreme state of flux. Change is on a steep exponential rise. Some things are parallel with this acceleration and some things are being dragged along for the ride.
This show addresses interpretations of our current evolutionary or de- evolutionary status. Artists share their reactions to how far we’ve come, why our present times have turned out as they have, and what may or may not change current trends.
Division of Human Works
divisionofhumanworks@gmail.com