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SUMMARY:Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination
DESCRIPTION:In this new exhibition\, New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth\, growth\, and death. This show explores how technology has allowed us to ease our suffering by making change less difficult and transformation more enjoyable. Perhaps the ultimate human technological advancement would be the elimination of mortality by extending human life indefinitely in a biological\, digital\, or other virtual state. Recent advances suggest our species may already be on the cusp of achieving this evolutionary landmark. \nWoolfalk’s exhibit at Tube Factory includes her signature installations\, sculptures\, prints\, video art works\, and the works of artists who influence her practice. It builds on one of her first projects\, No Place (a play on the translation of the word utopia)\, where she collaborated with filmmaker and anthropologist Rachel Lears. Both then in their mid 20s\, they invited people into Woolfalk’s studio to talk about their ideas of utopia and created work from there. \n“Similar to the way you would construct a folktale\, we took these ideas and we constructed the culture of the NoPlaceans. People would come to the studio\, put on costumes and enact the things that they were imagining\,” says Woolfalk who created a six-chapter ethnographic film about this future utopian world based on people’s visions. \nTo explore the conceptual boundaries of this cultural moment\, this also led Woolfalk to create a fictional transhuman species known as the Empathics\, which she describes as a race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. “If you have a utopia\, then how do you actually make that utopia real? I worked with biologists at Tufts University to think about what in nature could occur in order for people to mutate to become more like plants.” \nWoolfalk’s Tube Factory installation will extend the story of the Empathics\, blending multi-media aesthetic phenomena\, spirituality\, cultural hybridization\, capitalism\, technoscience\, and artificial intelligence to conjure a broad network of interconnecting philosophical strands. Informed equally by science fiction and anthropology\, the morally ambiguous future that the exhibit shares is open to the interpretation of its viewers. “Going from modularity to monumentality is how I approach my practice. I work in ways that are incredibly small and I also work in ways that are incredibly big. The work functions like collage.” \nShould we fear the world Woolfalk and other transhumanist artists are mapping? Should we embrace it? Should we shrug it off as a Pollyannic fantasy\, doomed by the human idiot factor? Woolfalk seems to be implying a potentially disturbing fourth option: Some of us — particularly those with special status or outlandish means — have already started to transform. Is this art\, or a warning shot across the cultural bow of the human race? \n\nAbout the artist  \nWoolfalk (b 1979\, Japan) is a pioneer within an emergent\, international aesthetic movement examining transhumanism — a theoretical belief that humans will mobilize technology to transcend their biological limitations and evolve into a non-human\, or “posthuman” race. With each body of work\, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of The Empathics and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. She has exhibited at museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces throughout Asia\, Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum\, Montclair\, NJ (2012); the Chrysler Museum of Art\, Norfolk\, VA (2014); the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2014); SCAD Museum\, Savannah\, GA (2016); Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY (2016); Sheldon Museum of Art\, Lincoln\, NE (2016); the Mead Museum of Art\, Amherst\, MA (2017) and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY; the Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA.\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, among many others. \n“When I started making work it was very important that it was not autobiographical\,” says Woolfalk. “The work is not about me at all. The work is about talking to people about their ideas and trying to understand what’s going on in the world then taking that material and adapting it into installation based spaces that people can experience.” \nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Efroymson Family Fund. \nPart of the Social Alchemy Series\, this exhibition is in partnership with the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art.  \nImage: Saya Woolfalk\, Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination\, Plate 2\, 30”x40”\, 2018.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/saya-woolfalk-the-empathics/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Jane Kim and Sean Smith: Far From Anything Like The Movie
DESCRIPTION:In February 2019 we flew to Madagascar in hopes to uncomfortably disconnect; It worked.  The Island of the Moon is home to around 200\,000 plant and animal species and has some of the most breathtaking scenery you could ever imagine. Unfortunately 90% of their rainforests are gone along with species uprooted due to deforestation. There’s a divide between the native Malagasy that belong and are acclimated to the pace of life in the island off the Indiana Ocean.  An abundance of ethnicities\, sex trafficking\, climate change\, extreme poverty\, and the longest humanly possible commute in a taxi brousse. \nFar From Anything Like The Movie is a photo/ mixed media exposé documenting the rode less traveled. Jane and Sean have no formal artist training and began this journey with the yearning to save their relationship.    \n\nThis will take place at Listen Hear located at 2620 Shelby St.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/jane-kim-and-sean-smith-far-from-anything-like-the-movie/
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SUMMARY:Shelby Alexander : Afterthought
DESCRIPTION:Afterthought by Shelby Alexander will be on display at the Guichelaar Gallery from November 1-15. \n\n\nAlexander’s large scale multi-media paintings articulate the tension between the modern experience of beauty\, consumption\, and industrialization—and what that means for the future of the environment and global sustainability efforts. \nS. Alexander graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2014 with a degree in studio art & design with a concentration in painting. She also studied fashion design at Pratt Institute in New York and was a studio resident for the South Bend Museum of Art. Most recently\, she was awarded the 2017-18 Emerging Artist Residency Program with the Stutz Artists Association in Indianapolis. She is now currently working and residing in Cincinnati. \nGuichelaar Gallery\n1135 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN 46203\nAvailable by appointment \nOpening Reception November 1\, 6-10pm \nwww.tubefactory.org\nwww.bigcar.org
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/shelby-alexander-afterthought/
LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Respecting POTUS & the National Trust
DESCRIPTION:“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers\, or newspapers without a government\, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” \n“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” \nBoth quotes are attributed to one of our founding fathers and third president\, Thomas Jefferson\, and they perfectly illustrate the vital\, acrimonious\, and sometimes outright hostile relationship that has always existed between a free press and the halls of power within a democracy. Traditionally the press\, this fourth estate\, has served as an additional check on the government’s power. In Jay Seawell’s project\, National Trust\, he dissects the “careful manufacturing of appearances in relation to power\, politics\, and media in the United States.” His subjects range from historical structures to political spectacles and media culture\, and they are all inextricably tied to superficial appearances and perceptions. Meanwhile\, in Andrew Miller’s project\, Respecting POTUS\, he explores these appearances and perceptions as they relate to the Office of the President both inside and outside of the Beltway. According to Miller\, “Political pundits\, elected representatives\, along with 24-hour cable news exist to hold those in power accountable but at times contribute to the divisive and hostile nature of our political culture today.” \nJay Turner Frey Seawell is a photographer based in Washington\, DC. He earned his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. His photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States as well as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Seawell is a two-time nominee of The Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Seawell is the 2016 recipient of the Award for Innovation in the Documentary Arts from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. His first photobook National Trust was published by Skylark Editions. Seawell was a winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward competition in 2018. \nAndrew “Drew” Miller is a Chicago-based fine art photographer specializing in interiors\, architecture\, and portraiture. His personal work explores the intersection of people and politics that is found in the urban environment. \nEfroymson Gallery\nTube Factory Artspace\n1125 Cruft Street Indianapolis\, IN 46203 \nOpening Reception November 1\, 6-10pm \nwww.auroraphoto.org\nwww.tubefactory.org\nwww.bigcar.org
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/respecting-potus-the-national-trust/
LOCATION:Efroymson Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys Presented by 99.1 WQRT
DESCRIPTION:Over the last three decades\, Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys have kept up a constant cycle of traveling back and forth across the lower 48\, then hopping across the pond to Europe and beyond. They bring with them a brand of American music that has earned them an induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame\, several national television appearances\, guest spots on The Grand Ole Opry\, and a slew of adoring fans.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/big-sandy-his-fly-rite-boys-presented-by-99-1-wqrt/
LOCATION:Duke’s Indy\, 2352 S West St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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