A pretty good future

A pretty good future
by Natalia de Campos, Bryon Carr, Thiago Szmrecsanyi, and Ellery Royston

chashama 461 Gallery
461 West 126th St.
(Between Amsterdam and Morningside)
New York, NY

May 3 - 5, 2012

Daily performances, 8pm

Admission, pay what you wish $5-$20

Limited space available, to reserve a place in advance, please email aprettygoodfuture@gmail.com with the date and number of tickets you wish to have held.

Syncretic Pleasures is pleased to present the world premiere of A pretty good future, a multi-sensory interactive installation-performance, constructed as an immersive environment and invites viewers to navigate a network of intimate domains composed of mixed structures, visual and aural elements. Within this fabricated world, visitors discover augmented realities and experience otherworldly encounters. Taking as the premise destruction of the familiar and the need for a re-invented social system, the artists investigate identity and models of utopia, from Renaissance creations to science fiction projections.

The artists depart from a review of a few unstable realities: the AIDS crisis; war, oppression and violence; the very current economic environment. They also look at notions of comfort and denial in the present consumerist society. A pretty good future asks us: What if it all suddenly vanished and re-appeared, remixed?

Artist Bios:
 
Natalia de Campos is a performer, director and writer working in experimental theater and performance art. She founded Syncretic Pleasures in 1999.

Bryon Carr has trained, taught and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Thiago Szmrecsanyi is an artist, educator and exhibition designer, living and working in New York.

Website:
http://aprettygoodfuture.carbonmade.com/