The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present "Sunset Corridor," a multi-room immersive installation by the artist duo Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe.
"Sunset Corridor" is the 14th and latest chapter in Freeman and Lowe’s series of expansive architectural installations. The exhibition continues the artists’ deep dive into their fictional San San Universe, a domain partially based on a mid-20th-century futurist theory put forth in Herman Kahn’s 1967 book, The Year 2000.
Kahn speculated that by the turn of the 21st century, San Diego and San Francisco would merge into one giant metropolis. Although this never came to pass, the theory is foundational to Freeman and Lowe’s creation: an adjacent world that parallels modern-day reality and examines, critiques, and illuminates our society’s relationships to technology, music, drugs, subcultures, and politics.
"Sunset Corridor" is the third installment within a recent subsection of San San to investigate The Smile, an information technology rampant within this universe. Comprised of five architectural zones and a video room, each space within Sunset Corridor tells a distinct story and supports a metanarrative about a transient youth culture.
This fictional subculture takes over buildings owned by International Business Machine, better known as IBM, to hack The Smile’s technological framework and produce an underground music culture to subvert mainstream life. By layering an alternate reality with references to real countercultures, historical and imagined narratives, technological inventions, urbanism, and the music industry, Freeman and Lowe create works replete with opportunities for critical examination of modern society.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present "Sunset Corridor," a multi-room immersive installation by the artist duo Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe.
"Sunset Corridor" is the 14th and latest chapter in Freeman and Lowe’s series of expansive architectural installations. The exhibition continues the artists’ deep dive into their fictional San San Universe, a domain partially based on a mid-20th-century futurist theory put forth in Herman Kahn’s 1967 book, The Year 2000.
Kahn speculated that by the turn of the 21st century, San Diego and San Francisco would merge into one giant metropolis. Although this never came to pass, the theory is foundational to Freeman and Lowe’s creation: an adjacent world that parallels modern-day reality and examines, critiques, and illuminates our society’s relationships to technology, music, drugs, subcultures, and politics.
"Sunset Corridor" is the third installment within a recent subsection of San San to investigate The Smile, an information technology rampant within this universe. Comprised of five architectural zones and a video room, each space within Sunset Corridor tells a distinct story and supports a metanarrative about a transient youth culture.
This fictional subculture takes over buildings owned by International Business Machine, better known as IBM, to hack The Smile’s technological framework and produce an underground music culture to subvert mainstream life. By layering an alternate reality with references to real countercultures, historical and imagined narratives, technological inventions, urbanism, and the music industry, Freeman and Lowe create works replete with opportunities for critical examination of modern society.
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$10-$16; Free for children under 18.
