Flux Capacitor
What:
Flux Capacitor
Where:
Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Opening Fri July 18, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs until Aug 19
How much:
Free!
Time travel. Not real. Someone really ought to tell the nerds who wrote the Wikipedia entry on Back to the Future. Along with an explanation of how the flux capacitor powers the DeLorean, there's a diagram on there explaining the inter-connected chain of effects of Doc and Marty's eight interventions in the space-time continuum.
Sorry dorks, time travel is only a metaphor. In the case of curatorial collective Pilot, it's one that lets them do plenty nifty stuff with lost, recreated, contested, and sometimes just plain phony histories. This awesome show includes Nat Thomas's entire rewrite of modernist art history by imagining Duchamp's bicycle wheel as a BMX one with spokey dokeys. Vin Ryan's drawn many beautiful illustrations to go with a bunch of kids' lost homework assignments. Lisa Radford and her Dad have built a beautiful swing because she never had one as a kid (that's sweet, isn't it?).
Memory, history, metaphor. Often these things make us a little nostalgic, because the past is another country, not a wormhole to drive a car at. So get down to see this show before it closes in three weeks. Because when it's gone you can't come back.
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
Keywords: Collingwood, Utopian Slumps
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