Dissident Futures | YBCA
Channel: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Date: 2013-10-18

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YBCA Director of Visual Arts, Betti-Sue Hertz, gives an overview of the exhibition, Dissident Futures, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Dissident Futures is an investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental, and technological structures. Either through active engagement with future studies or through intuitive investigation, the artists and designers in Dissident Futures envision a future that expands beyond our conventional expectations. Loosely structured around three thematic strands—the utopian, the speculative, and the pragmatic—the exhibition furthers our understanding of how artists are addressing potentiality and the unknown, from the most desired future to the most feared. Basim Magdy's sequenced slide projection featuring spectral images of the volcanic region of Spain's Lanzarote island as a possible future memory, David Huffman's paintings of wandering traumanauts, Melanie Gilligan's experimental multi-episode science fiction drama where personal needs are inextricably linked to exchange value, and Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's object designs that maximize the movements of individual factory workers are examples of how this exhibition resets possible ways to approach the future.