THE [NOW] COLLECTIVE

“11/9 was the morning after the 2016 US Presidential Election and like 9/11, it was a flashpoint.

We tried ‘wait and see’. [NOW] is a time of alternative fact, alternative right, alternative left, alternative narrative, alternative government, and alternative realities. [NOW] is a time of hacked elections, expanded corruption, expanded wars, Rogue NASA, Rogue EPA, banned peoples, and stripped rights. We have been ignoring the real threats and fighting with each other. This is our world less than one year after 11/9 dawned. In light of what we know now, what do we do [NOW]?
Are we at rest? Or are we like a ‘Slingshot’ pulling back to ready itself?”

“We galvanize our voices in POST/11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW]”

Post 11/9 The New Now [Now] is a year-long traveling exhibition that gathers disparate voices of artists, activists, thinkers, and philanthropists together into spaces and conversations that move beyond fear of the present to create a new [Now]. 

This engaging show features over 20 collaborators who refuse to be at rest during times of struggle. The collective includes Barry McGee, Rebecca Solnit, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Michele Pred, Liz Walsh, Matt Gonzalez, and many more.

Individually, these collaborators use diverse methods and mediums as a visual and verbal language to help us all understand our role in both macro and micro conflicts; and, to invite generative resolutions to present dangers. Collectively, these articulated dreams, elegant metamorphoses, and unconventional abstractions are a statement of fierce hope that transcends the contrived scarcity of our current world in reductive, political, complex, and personal ways.