![]() The plan was to evacuate all of the population (except some who stayed behind for maintenance) away in different regions of space. After Buy n Large failed to dispose all that trash they created an "amazing plan", that they thought the best and would work, called " Operation Cleanup". After Buy n Large gave the right for everyone to spend and buy, the planet soon came to the position that there was no place to properly dispose the waste. E.īefore 2105 AD: During the middle 21st century, the Buy n Large corporation assumed control of the planet's entire economy, including various world governments.Ģ105 AD: The population had reached to around 200 billion.Many orbiting satellites and space junk are visible in the atmosphere.Įarth is the location of WALL MCA Contact Information Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave Chicago IL 60611 Hours Museum HoursĬlosed New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.The Earth in 2805 AD. Herald, herald, herald, you are number one. It’s just something that we’ll probably continue to try to address culturally and so I think the piece is just my own sort of artistic creative gesture of pointing towards that and saying this is the most basic human need and how is it going to evolve and how has it even evolved in a way that we’re not even presently aware of. I think it makes the broader point that we've always had that challenge and that we're carrying that challenge forward in new and never-before-experienced ways. ![]() Wayfinders does speak to the most basic need we have to connect with each other and that longing and a certain sense of missing some kind of connection that we imagine existed in the past before our connection became mediated by a certain abstraction that then translated in technology and moved forward. While it is slightly dystopic, I think there’s a very positive message in both pieces because they’re both asking the audience to reflect very personally on our current time and place and the ways in which the things that we’re very accustomed to use every day can actually bring us further apart. While we have more and more ways to connect and more and more ways to get to each other those methods, those technologies tend to be increasingly mediating our personal/physical autonomy to actually get to somebody, and modernity just allows us to be further apart, allows us to be more in touch over great distances. What Wayfinders has in common with the predecessor piece, Surfacing, is they both explore how progress can be a double-edged sword of connection and disconnection. ![]() It's a mainframe of mind-space formally known as the ethnosphere, which is the sum total of all ideas and cultures and languages of the Earth similar in a way that the biosphere is the sum total of all living organisms. So the setting of Wayfinders is a bit unusual. My particular interests lied in a very broad, conceptual question that I think we face every day, which is how we interface with technology more and more to mediate our relationship with people, places and things and I create interdisciplinary work that presents music as a theatrical endeavor because I am trying to really meld all of the elements I’m working with. TRANSCRIPTĪ lot of people (a lot of people) would see this (would see this) and they say (and they say) "Wow." A formidable music project, Wayfinders is an MCA commission and was developed in residency at the MCA earlier this year.
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