Try To Forget: A Group Show

In a world where the lines between IRL and URL dissolve through limitless manipulation, we function in communication networks as both alienated subject and mediated object. Virtually extended, representations of history, society, adolescence, youth, and ourselves are commonly perceived as lived experience.  Instruments and vessels of absorption, we inhabit an age where information and value, notions of private and public, as well as distinctions between the natural and the neutralized, collapse into meaningless noise.  Like the Internet itself, the visual and sound artists showcased here recode the past through rearranging fragments into new hybrid forms and futures. The beauty of this new habitat is juxtaposed in a political climate with recurring themes of corruption, immortality, violence, and the invasion of basic privacies.  Deeply entrenched in a lifestyle of manufactured need, looking back less than twenty years ago seems to unearth an eternity of waste.  Overloaded and overwhelmed, the only hope is to Try To Forget.
[text=center]|Digital + Multimedia| Obfuscated Visuals, Natalie Hands, Anthony Antonellis, Rae Threat, Dave Hudson, Ian Aleksander Adams, Hush B Quiet, Terrell Davis, Bebe Bones, Mattie Hillock, Jim Anderson, Spencer Keller, Trevor Brolin, Lydia Jones, Nora Quinn, Sammy Wong, Eron Rauch, Trevor Treglia, Jen Miller, Gabe Martinez, Jimmy Swill, XE Davis |Video| Molly Ryan, H. Martis, Estrid Lutz, Logan Owlbeemoth, Faith Holland |Audio| Crowhurst, Dorian Wood, Bastard Noise + Witches of Malibu, Breakdancing Ronald Reagan, Hive Mind, Circuit Rider, Endometrium Cuntplow |Installations + Soundscapes| Jay Gambit, James Marshall
[text=center]Presented by We Open Art Houses-WOAH | VCR | Almost Holden Collective[/text]
[text=center]Curated by Jay Gambit[/text]
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