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Y3K: On Distant Keys Exhibit to Run March 25 through April 26

February 22, 2024 Community

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Y3K On Distant Keys over aquatic imagery

Y3K: On Distant Keys, a new exhibit that runs from March 25 through April 26 in the Design Building Gallery, imagines a (not-so) distant future where landforms are recognized as sentient beings with legal rights and the ability to self-govern. Based on the transdisciplinary research project, On Distant Keys, this exhibition portends the yet-to-be island of Ondacka, leading the planet as it enters the next millennia and new global consciousness. 

With a curated selection of art, artifacts, maps, music, videos, and text– the exhibition highlights artistic interpretations of nine distinct landforms.

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Y3K mockup of a student in the art gallery

Y3K: On Distant Keys

March 25 to April 26
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 26, from 4:30-6 p.m.
Performance and Gallery Talk at 5:15 p.m.
Design Building Gallery

About the Exhibit

Following the 2023 exhibition, The Futuring Lab, which was thematically grounded in time, this show explores the spatial possibilities for place-based consciousness. How does one grow-with the places one inhabits? In what ways does one become a lake, a forest, or even a city? What future modes of communication and communion can one have with a forest, an ocean, or a river? And how can one extend the notion of civility, to include the wildly feral and earthly bodies of our terrestrial world?

The exhibition will include a limited edition catalog.

Performances and Opening Reception

Tuesday, March 26

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    Linda Molenaar performances

    1 p.m.: Performance "Digging Frog" by Dutch artist Linda Molenaar at Campus Pond

  • 5 p.m.:  Performance "Bombus" by Dutch artist Linda Molenaar in the Design Building Gallery

Opening Reception from 4:30-6 p.m.
Performance and Gallery Talk at 5:15 p.m.
Design Building Gallery

Visual Artists

Ashley Eliza Williams, Amanda Maciuba, Darren Waterston, Elliott Green, Ian Ingram, Kathy Ruttenberg, Linda Molenaar, Malaika Ross, Renee Gladman, Siobhán MacDonald, Saya Woolfalk, plus numerous students and other community collaborators.

Musicians

Ben Richter, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Jonny Rogers, Laura Cetilia

Curators

Bella Donovan (research assistant)

Ben Richter (music curator)

Kelly Feeney (co-curator)

Sandy Litchfield (producer, co-curator)

Sponsors

UMass Amherst Faculty Research Grant

Architecture Research Collaborative

Office of Inclusion & Engagement

School of Earth and Sustainability

The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

Renaissance of the Earth

The Anthropocene Lab

The Puffin Foundation

Acknowledgements

Isa Diamond, Patrick Bui, Tori Gitto, Colleen Tully, Jen Simms, Evan Janes, Jamie Grasso, Evelyn Howie, Naomi Jaenicke, Vivian Bonilla, Rob DeConto, Julie Brigham Grette, Yuntian Hu

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