Sensations that Announce the Future Art Exhibition

Inspired by Elaine Scarry’s book, Thinking in an Emergency, the exhibition asks: What does art do in a time of emergencies when urgency and indifference coexist? How does art announce new, unexpected futures?

The works in the exhibition were selected for their attempt to transcend, transform or re-imagine inherited histories. They sample, re-mix, and re-purpose to disrupt, re-write or map alternative trajectories for those histories, art forms, and social relationships. And as much as we might want to find answers in the exhibited works, they insist instead on abiding in the questions, holding open space and time for us to imagine possible futures ourselves.

Organized by Evergreen faculty Shaw Osha and students, and featuring the work of numerous independent artists and Evergreen students.