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The Off-Modern Revolution opens modernity to the “what ifs” of monolithic philosophical, economic and technological narratives. It ventures into untold past, present, and future histories to question Western cultural supremacy and recover truths pushed to the margins in a series of Glitches that fire like evolutionary synapses. They excavate Western notions of progress to reveal fractured relationships with the planetary systems that sustain us and work to reconnect the physical body to nature.
Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution, organized by Adrian Sliva and Hilary Wiese, assesses the reverberating cultural shifts of the Glitches of the Off-Modern Revolution in a collaborative installation composed of work that spans a wide range of production skills and techniques. The exhibition engages architecture, photography, and emerging digital processes to interrogate the deterministic narrative of Western modernity by centering deep time, entropy, estrangement, and reflection.
*Due to ongoing COVID-19 related public health concerns, viewings of Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution will be by appointment and limited to small groups of 5 people, or fewer, at a time. Please register here or email peter@amplifyarts.org to schedule a time to visit outside of regular gallery appointment hours. Face masks required.
Exhibition Dates: September 10 - October 15, 2021
Opening: September 10; 6 - 9pm
Regular Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays by appointment; 1pm - 5pm
About the Artists:
Squiggles, Spirals, & Straight-Line Splices: Glitches of The Off-Modern Revolution is a collaborative effort between Adrian Sliva and Hilary Wiese - Architects / Artists curious about the untapped potential of hidden / overlooked histories. Currently, their work seeks to untangle the complicated narratives of the body -- the body as medical vs the body as nature-- and explore the anatomical alchemy that has served as a blueprint for architect’s fetishization with order and proportion, clock-like images comparing bodies to buildings (the idealized, healthy, upright patriarchal body of so-called perfection and cleanliness).