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