PARALLEL WORLDS - CURATED BY ELYSE LONGAIR
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Heritage Auctions, Chicago IL
Organized through the College Arts Association
Presented by The Services to Artists Committee
Since the nineteenth century, science fiction has provided conceptual spaces for questioning and criticizing our world and imagining alternative futures. As notable futurist Stuart Candy states in The Futures of Everyday Life, what is “central to the present future studies is not an effort to ‘predict’ the future ... but the effort to sketch ‘alternative futures’.” In other words, creativity and imagination are needed to better prepare for the unknown.
With this exhibition, each artist aims to draw attention to parallel worlds, temporal shifts, and alternative futures. Addressing a legacy of different communities and building on critical movements including Indigenous Futurism, Chicane Futurism, Latine Futurism, Queer Futurism, Feminist Futurism, Feminist Hauntology, Crip Futurism, Post-Humanist Futurism, Multispecies Futurism, Ecological Futurism, Eco-Solar Punk Futurism, Speculative Futurism, and AI Futurism, we hope to collectively imagine beyond our current reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin asserts that “Resistance and change often begin in art.” This perspective is central to the exhibition, where art can serve as a mode of critique, resistance, and speculation to address and disrupt our deeply rooted colonial history. Parallel Worlds hopes to challenge dominant narratives while offering a critical repositioning of identity, environment, technology, and time. The artists respond to our current social and cultural climates while offering new, creative, revolutionary visions for all futures.
ARtISTS: TERESA ASCENCAO, CARRIE ANN BAADE, ATANAS BOZDAROV, ANGEL CABRALES, ALLYSON GLENN, KATIE KEHOE, DEIRDRE LOGUE, ALLYSON MITCHELL, JENNIFER SCHEUER, SOFT TURNS, AND SANDIE YI
