Summary
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow (TiYT) promises to be a conceptually orchestrated and experiential show.
The main ideas of the TiYT Manifesto were refined into a series of aphorisms by Charley Wu and divided up among the remaining artists to inspire their work. This process allows for conceptual cohesion, yet affords each artist complete creative freedom.
Each artist is encouraged to use their work as a response to the aphorism—their own view of the future. The pieces will range from sculpture, to mixed-medium on canvas, to video. We require no audio or video equipment, and each piece will be wall-mounted, freestanding, or on a plinth.
Exhibition Plan
At the nucleus of the show is set of three (3) interactive 3D Stereoscopic viewers that unite the diversity of work presented. Created by Mike Ellis, the viewers are built within the walls of three unique model houses. To use the viewer, one must look through the windows of the house while turning a hand-crank generator used to power the light source. Stereoscopes are one of the first forms of 3D technology, using lenses and image-pairs to create the illusion of depth.
Each viewer will hold a complete set of 8 stereoscopic images. They will be photographed and rendered in 3D by Charley Wu. The subjects of the images will be the 8 aphorism-based works, shot in an outdoor environment, and complemented by 3D text. This collaborative piece will function as the physical manifestation of our transcendence of both modernism and postmodernism. The “viewing-houses” represent the inherent structure that the modernists perceived to be immanent in the world. Quite simply, it is the metaphorical “box”we are often told to “break out of ”.
Yet if we “break out of the box” will we not find ourselves in an even greater box? It is part of the human condition to see things in reference to frameworks of past understanding. So instead, we have inside our “viewing-house” a 3D representation of the outside world—the perfect synthesis of structure and existential freedom. As long as we realize that these frameworks are our own constructs, we can achieve complete freedom existing both within the box and without.
The entire show works as a grand recursive formula—like a fractal or a holographic image. The whole is represented within the “viewing-houses”, but reduced to a virtual interface and seen from a different perspective.
We invite the public to see our visions of tomorrow both unmediated and through the windows of our stereoscopic viewers.
Summary of Exhibition Artwork:
• Three (3) Stereoscopic viewers built into the form of a house, Mike Ellis. Each with a full set of 8 stereographic image slides, Charley Wu
• Eight (8) Aphorism-based installations - comprised of sculpture, mixed media on canvas, and video. Participating artists for this portion include:
Taya Cornett
Emad Dabiri
Sasha Foster
Felix Kalmenson
Lili Huston-Herterich
Jonathan E. Simpson
Tony Wallace
