Dissident Futures Annex
15 Nov 2013 - 23 Feb 2014
DISSIDENT FUTURES ANNEX
15 November 2013 – 23 February 2014
Dissident Futures Annex is an extension of the exhibition in our Downstairs Galleries, featuring additional works by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Katie Paterson, and Connie Samaras. The exhibitions are an investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental and technological structures. Either through active engagement with future studies or through intuitive investigation, the artists and designers in Dissident Futures Annex envision a future that expands beyond our conventional expectations. Structured around three thematic strands—the utopian, the speculative, and the pragmatic—the exhibition furthers our understanding of how artists are addressing potentiality and the unknown, from the most desired future to the most feared.
Dissident Futures explores a series of fundamental questions: How do artists imagine and question how power links innovation and the future when considering wide-ranging shifts, from biological expansion to space technology? How can artists’ empathetic approaches to curiosity and doubt contribute to the larger field of future thinking? What do artists contribute to envisioning real and speculative futures? The exhibition features an international roster of artists working in video and film, photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and performance, who engage wide-ranging topics including: the occult, science fiction, and outer space; afro-futurism; architecture and the environment, technology, the nature of human feeling, and language; mapping and atemporality; and post-apocalypse scenarios.
Participating artists are: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Katie Paterson, and Connie Samaras.
Dissident Futures is curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCA’s Director of Visual Arts. It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue edited by Betti-Sue Hertz and Ceci Moss, YBCA’s Visual Arts Assistant Curator.
15 November 2013 – 23 February 2014
Dissident Futures Annex is an extension of the exhibition in our Downstairs Galleries, featuring additional works by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Katie Paterson, and Connie Samaras. The exhibitions are an investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental and technological structures. Either through active engagement with future studies or through intuitive investigation, the artists and designers in Dissident Futures Annex envision a future that expands beyond our conventional expectations. Structured around three thematic strands—the utopian, the speculative, and the pragmatic—the exhibition furthers our understanding of how artists are addressing potentiality and the unknown, from the most desired future to the most feared.
Dissident Futures explores a series of fundamental questions: How do artists imagine and question how power links innovation and the future when considering wide-ranging shifts, from biological expansion to space technology? How can artists’ empathetic approaches to curiosity and doubt contribute to the larger field of future thinking? What do artists contribute to envisioning real and speculative futures? The exhibition features an international roster of artists working in video and film, photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and performance, who engage wide-ranging topics including: the occult, science fiction, and outer space; afro-futurism; architecture and the environment, technology, the nature of human feeling, and language; mapping and atemporality; and post-apocalypse scenarios.
Participating artists are: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Katie Paterson, and Connie Samaras.
Dissident Futures is curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCA’s Director of Visual Arts. It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue edited by Betti-Sue Hertz and Ceci Moss, YBCA’s Visual Arts Assistant Curator.