Houghton, Max and Birkin, David and Williams, Patricia J and Halliday, Amy (2021) Infinitude. [Show/Exhibition]
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| Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition | ||||||||||||||||
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| Creators: | Houghton, Max and Birkin, David and Williams, Patricia J and Halliday, Amy | ||||||||||||||||
| Description: | Infinitude presents works by six visual artists, each of whose vision is turned toward the future. How is the future being shaped? By, and for, whom? The exhibition takes its title from nineteenth-century New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose influential notion of the 'infinitude of the private men' championed the limitless potential of the self-reliant individual, freed from societal constraint. Infinitude also conjures both the vast scale of the galaxy, and the seemingly boundless reaches of technology and personal ambition driving the contemporary space race. Fuelled by the unfettered individualism of te super-rich, the surly bonds of earth no longer constrain the ambitions of private capital, nor conform to legal jurisdictions across its terrestrial and cosmic terrain. As plans for planetary colonization proceed at pace, in tandem with military and corporate enterprise, Infinitude pauses to look at how art is responding to these expanded frontiers. Selected works critique the colonial imperative underpinning this new frontierism. THey also offer alternative renderings of the future - of destinies which may yet manifest differently. |
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| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Afrofuturism, New Frontierism, Justice | ||||||||||||||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication | ||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Gallery 360, Boston, MA, USA 21 October 2021 22 January 2022 |
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| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2025 12:09 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2025 12:11 | ||||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 25098 | ||||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/25098 |
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