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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:Priya Wittman: Stormy Weather
DESCRIPTION:“My recent installations are best described as landscapes created through expanded painting techniques. I gravitate toward materials that are accessible and quotidian\, yet also project certain elemental qualities\, such as light\, space\, or line. The interspersion of miniature sculpture within the landscape brings a human component into the otherwise formal work. The sculpture are stand ins for myself — they are observing\, contemplating\, elucidating their physical and mental environment. They remind me that ultimately my work is centered on describing the human condition to the maximum extent that I can perceive it.” \nStormy Weather depicts cyclical expressions of anxiety by layering patterns repeatedly into surfaces and space. The paintings and assemblages explore intimate\, personal anxiety\, and multiply/mirror/repeat the individual to reflect a larger communal state of unease and worry — a collective angst. Uncertainty is stressful\, but it is a precursor to transformation. Perhaps this low level sense of dread is a catalyst for a shift\, a renewal. Despite the angst\, these artworks are ultimately optimistic. Similar to uncertainty\, the anxious processes of layering and repetition are the means of revealing clarity\, light\, and sublime color interaction. Sunlight is rarely more beautiful than when it follows a storm. \nPriya Wittman is an artist living and working in Indianapolis. She received her BFA in 2011 and MFA in 2016 from Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis. She has been the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards\, including a summer fellowship award in 2009 at Ox-Box School of Art in Saugatuck\, Michigan. She has exhibited in several states across the US\, and completed a residency at AIR Studio Paducah in Kentucky. In addition to her studio practice\, she periodically teaches painting and drawing courses as adjunct faculty at Herron School of Art\, and works at Ignition Arts\, an arts fabrication company based in Indianapolis. \n\nJoin us for First Friday in January to catch the opening reception of Stormy Weather from 6-10pm. \nThis show will be available from January 3-24. \nEfroymson Gallery\n1125 Cruft Street Indianapolis\, IN 46203\nM-F (7am-6pm) \nSa (8am-3pm)
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/priya-wittman-story-weather/
LOCATION:Efroymson Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chad Eby : Skärgården
DESCRIPTION:Amidst an array of light and sound\, Skärgården re-imagines cold war paranoia in the Stockholm archipelago in light and sound. The heart of this art installation is a self-organizing wireless mesh network that mirrors aspects of both the isolation and cooperation of an interconnected system of separate parts. \nChad Eby is a multidisciplinary artist\, designer\, teacher and researcher with particular interests in lighting\, digital art\, digital fabrication\, people-center design and design history.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/chad-eby-skargarden-2/
LOCATION:Listen Hear\,  2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park
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SUMMARY:Parachuting Into Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Remember the parachute as a kid in gym class? The parachute is the same from gym class in elementary school but this time you can draw on it! During this activity\, Museum Studies @ IUPUI will talk about what environmental justice is and what it means to you and us.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/parachuting-into-environmental-justice/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Neil Cain: Shadow's Prism
DESCRIPTION:“These works are a reaction to what I view as a consciousness bias in our culture towards ordered states of being and thinking. I believe this bias contributes to individualistic resource management\, social division\, and centralized state control\, and that the artist must counteract these forces by presenting harmonious alternatives. I paint to present the beauty of ordered and non-ordered states interacting. I see each as integral to the full expression of the other and essential to true understanding.” \nNeil Cain is an Indianapolis-native who began painting in 2002. His collections pull inspiration from his work in photography\, utilizing movement\, exposure\, layering\, and an increasingly polarized dialogue between ordered and chaotic elements. Trained as a music composer\, Neil uses similar foundational concepts in his painting by working in harmonic terms\, with ratios of frequencies juxtaposed against one another with or without bounding. ‘Form in flux’ and ‘magnetism of coherence’ form the conceptual framework for his most recent collections. He lives and works in Bloomington\, Indiana with his wife\, Jenny Ollikainen\, their cat daughter\, Little Cow\, and many plants friends. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. \nJoin us for First Friday in January to catch the opening reception of Shadow’s Prism from 6-10pm. \nThis show will be available from January 3-24. \nGuichelaar Gallery\n1135 Cruft Street Indianapolis\, IN 46203\nAvailable by appointment
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/neil-cain-shadows-prism/
LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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