The Short Forever, October 20 - November 10, 2017
Documentation photographs of the exhibition. A notion: We have entered a new geological period - the Anthropocene - in which human activity is the dominating biogeochemical force on the planet. Through trash, radiation, dust, plastic and so many other means we've inscribed ourselves into that l...
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ftsaichicagodc:oai:digitalcollections.saic.edu:islandora_118849 2023-05-15T18:01:47+02:00 The Short Forever, October 20 - November 10, 2017 Chin, Phoebe Yang, Andrew Bolen, Jeremy Anderson, Kayla The Short Forever, October 20-November 10, 2017 2017-10-20 https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A118849 eng eng Flaxman Library Special Collections. School of the Art Institute of Chicago 20171020.FLAXSCEX.000 https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A118849 Copyright the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). This material is made available for educational purposes. You may use the material as permitted by copyright law and other laws applicable to your use. It is your sole responsibility to obtain any necessary permission from the rights-holder(s) for other purposes. https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ StillImage 2017 ftsaichicagodc 2022-02-27T13:52:00Z Documentation photographs of the exhibition. A notion: We have entered a new geological period - the Anthropocene - in which human activity is the dominating biogeochemical force on the planet. Through trash, radiation, dust, plastic and so many other means we've inscribed ourselves into that large archival and encyclopedic volume called "Earth." And so this particular now becomes now forevermore, unerasable punctuation that irrevocably alters the meaning of every word within the larger planetary text. The Yangtze river dolphin, smallpox, the dodo, polar bear, passenger pigeon, Tasmanian wolf, Neanderthal - so many sharp exclamat!ons followed by par(e)nth(e)ticals, some trapped and others newly absent, How are we to classify what was, what is, and what will be in the mess of nature-turned-culture-turned-future? From 1952 to 1959 "Animal, Mineral, Or Vegetable?" was a popular BBC quiz show, a television version of the traditional parlor game. The objects in question came from famous museums and collections and expert archaeologists and historians were set to puzzle on the what any given thing "was." Seeming versus being, origins and unoriginals. You are an animal! (but really you are) - a cousin of the pheasant, ancient fish, and the abalone too. Maybe it is extra effort to think of yourself as a plant, but if you were raised in the United States on a typical modern diet, then over 50% of the carbon that makes up your body found its way to you by corn - syruped, popped, or hamburgered. As for mineral, the iron of blood and calcium of bones say it all. Anything is everything else mixed together and life is a lived hybridity. The blurry boundlessness that congeals into an identity for a meanwhile is carved out with the knives of races, classes, teams, nations, sexes, first names, and fan clubs. We keep track now only with the guarantee that all tracks will be lost later; thank metabolism, and thank entropy too. All of our things are cataloged in the library of the short forever. -Andrew Yang Still Image polar bear SAIC Digital Collections (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) |
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Documentation photographs of the exhibition. A notion: We have entered a new geological period - the Anthropocene - in which human activity is the dominating biogeochemical force on the planet. Through trash, radiation, dust, plastic and so many other means we've inscribed ourselves into that large archival and encyclopedic volume called "Earth." And so this particular now becomes now forevermore, unerasable punctuation that irrevocably alters the meaning of every word within the larger planetary text. The Yangtze river dolphin, smallpox, the dodo, polar bear, passenger pigeon, Tasmanian wolf, Neanderthal - so many sharp exclamat!ons followed by par(e)nth(e)ticals, some trapped and others newly absent, How are we to classify what was, what is, and what will be in the mess of nature-turned-culture-turned-future? From 1952 to 1959 "Animal, Mineral, Or Vegetable?" was a popular BBC quiz show, a television version of the traditional parlor game. The objects in question came from famous museums and collections and expert archaeologists and historians were set to puzzle on the what any given thing "was." Seeming versus being, origins and unoriginals. You are an animal! (but really you are) - a cousin of the pheasant, ancient fish, and the abalone too. Maybe it is extra effort to think of yourself as a plant, but if you were raised in the United States on a typical modern diet, then over 50% of the carbon that makes up your body found its way to you by corn - syruped, popped, or hamburgered. As for mineral, the iron of blood and calcium of bones say it all. Anything is everything else mixed together and life is a lived hybridity. The blurry boundlessness that congeals into an identity for a meanwhile is carved out with the knives of races, classes, teams, nations, sexes, first names, and fan clubs. We keep track now only with the guarantee that all tracks will be lost later; thank metabolism, and thank entropy too. All of our things are cataloged in the library of the short forever. -Andrew Yang |
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