The Future is...Ordinary

The streetcar appearing in my video work “Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy reach a new stop at :

The Future is... Ordinary?

Tuesday, September 24, 7pm

Shangyuan Art Museum, Huairou District, Beijing, China

Curated by Flounder Lee; Additional Selection Committee: Frankie Chow and Lee Yun

<About the theme The Future is...>

People have utopian and dystopian ideas about the future. Techno-optimism pervades Silicon Valley. Environmental apocalypse is a constant threat. But what if the future was neither complete utopia nor dystopia? What if humanity continued to trudge along between these extremes, as it always has? The places between is what this screening is about. What will the day to day life of an average person be, wherever that person should happen to live? What will daily live, emotions, recreation, work, culture be like? What about particularly about life situations and visions