loop mass: advanced plants

(2018)

Welcome to the world of Advanced Plants, an outdoor museum of futuristic vegetation. This multitudinous collaboration incorporates works from all over the country, using a wide variety of media, conjures the planet’s verdurous future and offers a glimpse of the dazzling new diversity to come. The ‘Curator’ will guide and contextualize the exhibit, taking you on a tour of 14 significant specimens, each exemplifying noteworthy evolutionary benchmarks of the post-human era. You will learn of humanity’s reckoning with the dreaded singularity, our role in the widespread environmental devastation of the planet, the gradual diminishment of our species, the plant kingdom’s sensible appropriation of our technology, and the subsequent restoration of Earth to its prehistoric harmony.

ADVANCED PLANTS will consist of temporary installations at the Center For Maximum Potential Building Systems, the headquarters of Austin’s own pioneers in sustainable architecture and building. Teams of artists will produce stand-alone pieces, which will be installed amongst contemporary vegetation on CMPBS’s sprawling property. An actress playing a plant/human hybrid ‘Curator’ will act as museum docent, leading guided tours through the exhibit with narration based on the beliefs of the new regime, and the ego-less plant society.

Produced by: Austin Museum of Digital Art & Accomplice

Artistic Directors: Stephen Fishman, Ryan Padgett and Zac Traeger

And many volunteers that we can’t thank enough.