Opening April 12th 7pm - 10pm
Runs until September 2008
The installation is inspired by a comic book created by Jimenez Lai which assert commentaries regarding the Broadacre City-- a 1932 Frank Lloyd Wright vision of a Utopian city where each family own a one-acre agrarian plot and commutes by private automobile. Wright never took into account that space and natural resources are limited. We are witnessing the impact of this miscalculation today. Citizens have abandoned cities for sprawling suburban sub-divisions that consume more energy per capita each year. Now other countries are following suit as they become wealthier, eager to live the good life as seen in the suburbs of the USA. Lai takes Broadacre City to its logical conclusion in outer space. It is a world where every citizen gets a dwelling unit and every citizen gets a pointlessly boring job… until the citizen dies.
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