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March 14 - April 12, 2008

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Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present
Opening reception on Friday, March 14th from 6–9pm ARTISTS: Gerald Edwards (New York) Brennan Hill (Los Angeles) Kent Lambert (Chicago) Matthew Post (Oakland) Squirrel (Indiana) Brendan Threadgill (Los Angeles) SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March, 2008)—Photo Epicenter presents Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present, opening March 14, 2008. Artists from across the U.S. respond to a series of criticalities in the war on terror with photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and performance. They present bizarre dystopian visions of post-9/11 hyperreality in a time when the U.S. openly enlists nationalist Science Fiction writers to envision the future of homeland security. From psychic espionage to sticky foam and spider-goat silk-milk—the U.S. has been actualizing its own sci-fi realities for years. Meanwhile, these revelations can easily be reduced to the imaginative drivel of fringe paranoids—sci-fi as alibi. As reality is submerged in the fantastical, the artists in Psymulation create artifacts of the present with striking immediacy and futurological retrospection. They disrupt the media’s psychological operations by appropriating its imagery, exploring its perceptual affect, and questioning its dominant narratives in different ways. Following last year’s Swan Songs exhibition, Psymulation is the second installment in a series of projects Chris Fitzpatrick is curating for Photo Epicenter. Gerald Edwards, Brennan Hill, Kent Lambert, Squirrel, and Brendan Threadgill have contributed work that will be on display from March 14 – April 11, 2008. Additionally, the opening reception will feature a psychological tuba performance by Matthew Post.