Futurefarmers: Errata—Brief Interruptions
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Level 1 + Level 3, Sert Gallery
Feb 9–Apr 9, 2017

Opening Reception
Thu, Feb 9, 5:30–7:30 pm
Level 1 + Level 3, Sert Gallery

Performance
De-Bugging
Thu, Feb 9, 6 pm
Level 1

Over the last two years, the Futurefarmers collective has envisioned Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and its surrounding environment as sites for considering material “interruptions.” A series of disruptions in authoritative objects—fingerprint traces in red sidewalk bricks, erratum slips in library books, and a literal bug that stopped an historic computer—are elements in the artists’ multimedia projects Erratum Two, Erratum Three and De-Bugging (all 2017). What would it be to pause with these interruptions in form and meaning, bringing to them curiosity and wonder? This exhibition presents new works that ask this question, along with two existing projects by Futurefarmers that are similarly interested in “errors” as prompts for exploratory facture: Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream (2010) and Forging a Nail (2014).

Futurefarmers

Futurefarmers is a flexible collective of artists, researchers, designers, architects, scientists, and farmers. Artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine form the core partnership for this exhibition. The group shares a common interest in creating frameworks for, in their words, “catalyzing moments of uncertainty and confusion in productive and illuminating ways.” The collective has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim, NY, MAXXI in Rome, Italy, New York Hall of Sciences, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among other institutions. Franceschini teaches at the California College of the Arts and Swaine teaches at the University of Washington, Seattle.