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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:David Lanch: Visions From Another World.
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Consulado de México en Indianápolis \n.\nFor the last 40 years\, David Lanch has worked with plastic\, which is part of the industrial technology of our current world\, and it has been his research work to apply it to painting\, and architectural integration to find man in his habitat.\nIn his work he uses fiberglass\, polymers and resins\, materials that had not been used in our society until after World War II. In his search\, he uses science fiction as an indispensable concept for mass catharsis.\nIn fiberglass painting he found the ideal means to express his vision of other worlds; textures\, colors\, surfaces illuminated and reflected in stainless steel\, mirrors\, natural or artificial light; an ideal world for your vision of a different landscape\, the mountains\, the seas\, the unknown habitat\, where the physical and chemical phenomena\, and the realities of the micro and macro cosmos\, follow the same principles that govern our planet and as far as We know\, of the universe.\nWhen exploring all these materials\, he found a new technique\, painting and etching in fiberglass\, which can help the development of plastic arts in this new millennium. \nDavid Lach was born June 26\, 1949 in Mexico City. \nVersión en español a continuación. \nDavid Lach \nPor los últimos 40 años\, David Lach ha trabajado con plástico\, que es parte de la tecnología industrial de nuestro mundo actual\, y ha sido su labor de investigación aplicarlo a la pintura\, y a la integración arquitectónica para encontrar al hombre en su hábitat.\nEn su trabajo utiliza fibra de vidrio\, polímeros y resinas\, materiales que no habían sido utilizados en nuestra sociedad sino después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En su búsqueda\, utiliza la ciencia-ficción como concepto indispensable para la catarsis masiva.\nEn la pintura en fibra de vidrio encontró el medio ideal para expresar su visión de otros mundos; las texturas\, los colores\, las superficies iluminadas y reflejadas en acero inoxidable\, espejos\, luz natural o artificial; un mundo ideal para su visión de un paisaje diferente\, las montañas\, los mares\, el hábitat desconocido\, donde los fenómenos físicos y químicos\, y las realidades del micro y macro cosmos\, siguen los mismos principios que se rigen en nuestro planeta y hasta donde conocemos\, del universo.\nAl explorar todos estos materiales\, encontró una nueva técnica\, la pintura y grabado en fibra de vidrio\, que pueden ayudar al desarrollo de las artes plásticas en este nuevo milenio.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/david-lanch-visions-from-another-world/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park
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SUMMARY:Social Alchemy Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:2020 will kick off Social Alchemy\, a series of events connecting New Harmony and Indianapolis. Meet up with everyone involved in proposing this project and become part of it! \nNew Harmony\, Indiana brims with art\, history\, architecture\, and a strong sense of place. The impact of past and current efforts within this community have created a town that continues to represent the universal human condition. If Indianapolis is the head of the body of Indiana\, New Harmony is its soul. \nWhat can we in urban Indianapolis learn from rural New Harmony’s social alchemy? Tons. With support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family fund and our partners — University of Southern Indiana\, Indiana State Museum\, Historic New Harmony\, New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute Central Library\, and lots of individuals –– we will explore\, learn and share how the pursuit of utopia forms places and pursuits. \nWHY IS BIG CAR INVOLVED?\nWe’re fascinated by people who strive for utopia and by intentional communities: Past\, present\, and future. Our overarching goal for the Cruft Street Commons project in Garfield Park is to develop an arts-focused\, socially cohesive block. And a key inspiration is the southwestern Indiana town\, New Harmony — location of multiple and varied utopian experiments. \nTHE PROGRAM\nThis idea started with visits by Big Car Collaborative/Tube Factory artspace curator\, Shauta Marsh\, and artist and writer Jim Walker\, to New Harmony over the past several years and conversations with artist\, writer\, and philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson — who lives\, part-time\, in New Harmony — and New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art director Garry Holstein. \nWHAT WE’RE DOING:\n• An interdisciplinary exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art focused on New Harmony’s visionary civic leader and preservationist Jane Owen (1915–2010).\n• An exhibition at the Tube Factory about the history and art of New Harmony (designed to travel)\, with emphasis on Angel in the Forest and visual interpretations of this lyrical text.\n• A film series of documentaries and feature films related to placemaking experiments.\n• Community meals\, one in New Harmony and one in Garfield Park.\n• A two-day symposium in October 2020 in New Harmony to include philosophers\, writers\, historians\, designers\, architects\, placemakers\, urban and rural city planners\, politicians\, and community organizers.\n• Two Tube Factory exhibitions by Native American artists Elisa Harkins (in 2021) and Wendy Red Star (in 2022): both creative responses to their peoples’ forced dystopias\, with ideas for cultural renewal. \nTHE IMPACT\nThis project explores historical and contemporary examples of utopian experiments\, fictional utopias and dystopias\, and social design projects. It offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between the built environment and social good. \nPROJECT PARTNERS\nUniversity of Southern Indiana: As the administrator of both Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery\, USI is encouraging staff\, professors\, and students to participate in the project.\nHistoric New Harmony: HNH will host programs\, help to develop the exhibitions\, and help travel the New Harmony exhibition about after its Indianapolis debut.\nNew Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: The gallery will host the Jane Owen exhibition.\nNew Harmony Working Men’s Institute: This library/museum will help with historical research and lend artifacts for exhibitions\nIndiana State Museum: The museum will be assisting with research\, and help with didactics.\nPattern: Pattern Magazine will be a promotional partner alongside Big Car’s low-power radio station 99.1 WQRT FM.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/social-alchemy-meet-greet/
LOCATION:Black Lodge Coffee\, 610 Church St.\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
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