Comet Fever
Taylor Baldwin
Boyd Holbrook
Dawit L. Petros
Segtram
Noelle Lorraine Williams
Comet Fever materializes a contemporary obsession with phenomena outside of human control and harnesses the tension of hysteria and the choreography of ritual associated with the paranormal. Taylor Baldwin, Boyd Holbrook, Dawit L. Petros, Segtram [Breanne Trammell + Peter Segerstrom] and Noelle Lorraine Williams neutralize this crisis of fear induced by the occult, rendering the world less fathomable and more magical. Imagination overthrows logic and testifies to the absurdist modes by which communal hallucination rivals the tools and science of modern intelligence. In Comet Fever, “space”, beyond the confines of geography, history and invented borders, is celebrated as a universal unknown that elevates consciousness of a mediated existence and binds the human experience.
Curator: Nico Wheadon as part of Young Curators New Ideas II organized by amani olu projects.
P.P.O.W. GALLERY
511 W. 25th Street, Room 301
New York, NY 10001
212.647.1044
www.ppowgallery.com
On view August 6 - 28, 2009
Boyd Holbrook
Dawit L. Petros
Segtram
Noelle Lorraine Williams
Comet Fever materializes a contemporary obsession with phenomena outside of human control and harnesses the tension of hysteria and the choreography of ritual associated with the paranormal. Taylor Baldwin, Boyd Holbrook, Dawit L. Petros, Segtram [Breanne Trammell + Peter Segerstrom] and Noelle Lorraine Williams neutralize this crisis of fear induced by the occult, rendering the world less fathomable and more magical. Imagination overthrows logic and testifies to the absurdist modes by which communal hallucination rivals the tools and science of modern intelligence. In Comet Fever, “space”, beyond the confines of geography, history and invented borders, is celebrated as a universal unknown that elevates consciousness of a mediated existence and binds the human experience.
Curator: Nico Wheadon as part of Young Curators New Ideas II organized by amani olu projects.
P.P.O.W. GALLERY
511 W. 25th Street, Room 301
New York, NY 10001
212.647.1044
www.ppowgallery.com
On view August 6 - 28, 2009
