OPEN FIRST FRIDAY - 2/3/12 - 7-10pm




*Photo Abbas Akhavan

SO FAR SO GOOD

1/13/12 - 2/12/12
Curated in collaboration with Alison Feldish
Opening Reception Friday January 13th 7pm

Abbas Akhavan / Conrad Bakker / Charles Broskoski / Eva and Franco Mattes / Paolo Pedercini / Justin James Reed / Michael Reinsch / Brian Khek and Micah Schippa / Brian Wallace

I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell. - Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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Extra Extra presents SO FAR SO GOOD, an exhibition of work examining the elements of uncertainty brought forth by recent social, political and environmental upheaval worldwide. Addressing concerns from global economics and capitalism, to political violence and surveillance, the conversation between the artists is presented on a platform of poetic inquiry and investigation. Each was selected to acknowledge the feelings of uneasiness, absurdity, hopefulness, despair, humor, paranoia, and earnest defiance that pervades our present day experience. The work and artists represented are not necessarily providing concrete answers, but asking questions and presenting choices.



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Upcoming:



TEMPTATIONS


Part 1: Feb 15 - Apr 6

Part 2: Feb 17 @ 8pm





Generations of man have attempted to overcome oppression only to be quieted either by overt aggression or by failing to keep hold of ideals in the face of culture's consolations. Today we knowingly, if not gleefully, submit ourselves to the global panopticon, where the peddlers of vice and the potential for trans-human salvation both reside. Curated by Daniel Wallace and Josh Pavlacky, "Temptations" draws parallels between the demands for freedom heard from youth culture around the globe and an internal quest for peace as we continue in the cycle of revolt and complacency.

Part 1: Sculpture and video installed in the gallery reveal an anxious examining of the over-saturated self and an attempted release from our material condition.

Extra Extra 1524 Frankford Ave
Feb 15 - Apr 6
Opening Feb 15 7-10pm

Benjamin Young / Colin Self / Michael Welsh /
Daniel Glendening / Sarah Johnson / Martin Basher
Carlos Gonzalez / Kristin Smallwood / Linda Cordell


Part 2: Contemporary uprisings have spawned the creation of a simultaneous physical and digital group-mind. Audience members face the persistent nag of culture's opiates on their path towards a trans-human Operetta inspired by The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

182 Turner Street
Feb 17
Doors Open at 7pm. Performance begins promptly @ 8pm
ATTENTION: PERFORMANCE INCLUDES SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL. VIEWERS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN A WAIVER UPON ADMITTANCE.

Colin Self / Kristin Smallwood / Carlos Gonzalez / James Johnson


"I slept again, I think. When I woke up this time and looked up through the leaves overhead, there were vultures. I sighed, indifferent. I was growing used to the pain, or it had lessened. Unimportant. I tried to see myself from the vultures' viewpoint. I saw, instead, my mother's eyes. Consuming. I was suddenly her focus of the general meaninglessness - not for myself, not for any quality of my large, shaggy body or my sly, natural mind. I was, in her eyes, some meaning I myself could never know and might not care to know: an alien, the rock broken free of the wall. I slept again." - Excerpt from Grendel by John Gardner



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Upcoming:






tropico post - apocalyptic

opening reception: Friday 4/6/2012 - 7 pm

gideon chase
joe lacina
alex lukas
matthew palladino





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