Straight Through the Wall is a guerrilla Arts collective projecting Video Art on walls across NYC. We scour the city for blank building facades, willing canvases waiting above busy avenues or hovering over quiet gardens and empty lots. With every screening, we incorporate art into the cityscape, merging it with New York’s varied architecture, bringing it out of the rigid structures of galleries & exhibitions, and delivering it directly to the masses.
2031: Step Into the Future | Part II
Friday June 11th, 8:30PM
Bushwick
14 Thames St. Brooklyn, NY 11206
The future, conceptually exciting, mysterious, hopeful and terrifying, will soon be the mundanity of our daily lives. While flying cars and hover boards (regrettably) seem unlikely, so much else remains perfectly unknowable. Will we survive the various historical moments of the year 2020 to transcend our daily struggles together, holding hands and dancing in Utopic bliss a decade later? Or will we slide into unfathomable ignorance and fall like lemmings into a new dark age? And where will the robots/algorithms/intergalactic aliens [check all that apply] fit in? Or is it possible that the year 2031 will be so much more boring than all that?
STTW 2031 is a time capsule, a collection of visions, hopes, and warnings of how we think 2031 might end up. It is a delirious daydream of various future timelines conjured 10 years early and transmitted directly into the mind’s eye of the public onto the walls of the one of the world’s largest cities.
Featuring Video Works By:
Tracy Abbott Szatan, Ashleigh Alexandria, David Andersson, Sue Beyer, Sarah Borruso, Conor Daly, Lee Greene, Ianthe Jackson, Raji Jagadeesan, Christopher Kaczmareck, Hyemi Kim, John Knecht, Karel van Laere, Ryan Andrew Lee, Jaclyn McKay, Robin Modder, Jenn Ruff, Rebecca Shapass, Silkblade, Kate Stone, Ondine Vinao
