Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ikamo Tllali (Earthless), three-channel video installation, 2021
Infinitude
GALLERY 360, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 - april 16, 2022
Infinitude presents works by six visual artists, each of whose vision is turned toward the future. How is the future being shaped? By, and for, whom?
The exhibition takes its title from nineteenth-century New England author Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose influential notion of the “infinitude of private man” championed the limitless potential of the self-reliant individual, freed from societal constraint. “Infinitude” also conjures both the vast scale of the galaxy and the seemingly boundless reaches of technology and personal ambition driving the contemporary space race.
Fuelled by the unfettered individualism of the super-rich, the surly bonds of earth no longer constrain the ambitions of private capital, nor conform to legal jurisdictions across its terrestrial and cosmic terrain. As plans for planetary colonization proceed at pace, in tandem with military and corporate enterprise, Infinitude pauses to look at how art is responding to these expanded frontiers. Selected works critique the colonial imperative underpinning this new frontierism. They also offer alternative renderings of the future – of destinies that may yet manifest differently.
Curated with Max Houghton and David Birkin of Visible Justice (University of the Arts London) and Northeastern University Distinguished Professor of Law Patricia Williams.
Programs:
Opening reception, October 26, 2021
Artists and Curators in Conversation, January 19, 2022
Press and Public Relations
New Campus Exhibition Tackles Human Rights, Justice, and Privilege through the Prism of Outer Space, News@Northeastern, October 26, 2021.
New Gallery 360 Exhibition Explores our Future, College of Arts, Media and Design news feature, October 21, 2021
