Time Being: A Walk with Futurefarmers

Southern Exposure invites the public to join Futurefamers in a public walk on Saturday, October 26th in which we will consider alternative frameworks or scores for unmaking our notions of time. Futurefarmers along with invited collaborators Cat Lauigan & Matt Brownell of Cone Shape Top, Hendl Mirra, Shaun O’Dell, Yasi Pereira, and Ven Voisey have contributed objects to be performed as we collectively pace out a collective de-composition of linear time. 

Shaun O’Dell’s GLOSSOLG looks to the long history of speaking machines and air resonance models, while Yasi Pereira considers stuttering as a generative disruptive force or affirming glitch, and Ven Voisey creates instruments on which to play the reverberating pulses of one’s internal systems of time. Hendl Mirra contributes a triangle to be played according to their score in the public walk and Cat Lauigan & Matt Brownell share a Fluxus inspired score created by feeding specific prompts into ChatGPT. 

Founded in 1995, FUTUREFARMERS is a group of diverse practitioners aligned by an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding us. Futurefarmers are artists, designers, architects, anthropologists, writers, computer programmers, and farmers with a common interest in creating frameworks for exchange that catalyze moments of "not knowing." Futurefarmers have published A Variation on Powers of Ten (Sternberg Press, 2012) and For Want of a Nail (MIT Press, 2018). They have exhibited at the Guggenheim (New York, 2011), Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2008), Whitney Museum of American Art (2004), Whitney Biennial (2002), Sharjah Biennal (2017), Taipei Biennal (2018), and Walker Art Center (2010).