zach blas
SPECULATIVE (2011 – present)
SPECULATIVE is a curatorial project by Zach Blas and Christopher O’Leary that includes a group exhibition, performance event, panel discussion, and catalog presented at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions from June 16 – August 28, 2011. Speculative focuses on politically and socially engaged modes of art production, with an emphasis on the experimental, subversive, and tactical potentials of media and technology in the 21st century. The works address notions of design, science, business, sex, gender, death, politics, environmentalism, globalization, neoliberalism, and the future, ranging from critical software, art-science fusions, social practice, experimental video, wearable architecture, performance, and more. In SuperMammal™, NeoLabium™ and other species of excess (2011, pictured above), artist Pinar Yoldas creates species that have emerged from the primordial ooze of global capitalism and cultural waste.
Speculative features the artwork and writing of Casey Alt, Zach Blas, Scott Bukatman, Jeff Cain, Micha Cárdenas, Jordan Crandall, Sean Dockray, Ricardo Dominguez / *particle group*, Rita Raley, Xárene Eskandar, Alexander R. Galloway, Jack Halberstam, Michael Kontopoulos, Pedro Lasch, MAL IDEA (Michelle Lee), Elle Mehrmand, Christopher O’Leary, Claudia Salamanca, Malcolm Smith, and Pinar Yoldas.
To purchase an exhibition catalog, please visit lulu.com or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
In 2012, Speculative will travel to Santa Barbara in conjunction with the University of California Santa Barbara.
