Psymulation Closing Events!

Photo Epicenter
26 Lilac Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 8pm
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psymulation@chrisfitzpatrick.net
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Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present
Featuring artwork by Gerald Edwards III, Brennan Hill, Kent Lambert, Squirrel, and Brendan Threadgill. Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick.

CLOSING RECEPTION & EVENT
Saturday, April 12th 2008. 6pm – 9pm.

FEATURING:

• Exhibition catalog release
• Last viewing of the exhibition
• A talk by Frank Chu on the 12 Galaxies
• A new sound installation by Gerald Edwards III
• A reading of titles from an extensive science-fiction archive by Matthew Post
• A slideshow with 35mm photos sent anonymously to the gallery

Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present will close Saturday, April 12th with an evening of events, including a lecture, catalog release, slide show, sci-fi reading, and sound installation. The exhibition features contemporary artifacts by US artists that, Ed Halter writes, “posit a society haunted by the wartime logic of both PsyOps and BlackOps, in which fact and fiction have become increasingly indistinguishable, and power exerts itself through a thick fog of unknowing.”(1) Composite photographs, videos, drawing, taped interviews, and exploded car bomb fragments loudly collide the real and the un / non / hyper / possibly / probably / imponderably / unconscionably (real) in a time when our present is the Administration’s past, when they exist in our future, now (2)

Jeanne Storck notes that, “a nagging doubt runs through every piece in the show so that even when you exit into the alley, a cloud of unease follows. But better unease than complacency.”3 Approaching the gallery through this alley, the Patriot Act will be heard reflecting through Lilac Street via Morse code in a sound installation by Gerald Edwards III. Inside the Epicenter, the exhibition will be on display, the exhibition catalog will be available, plus a reading of titles from an extensive science-fiction archive by Matthew Post and a viewing of slides sent anonymously to the gallery, supposedly “taken at a party celebrating the end of WWIII, from the archives of a defunct newspaper.” Then at 8pm, Frank Chu will give an illuminating talk about the 12 Galaxies, taking us beyond earth, to a where that has yet to be seen. There will be wine. Will there be more?

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1. Rhizome.org
2. Without a Doubt
3. Shotgun Review