Writing / Article
Textile: Cloth and Culture Volume 13.1, May 2015
Writing / Article
Textile: Cloth and Culture Volume 13.1, May 2015
When viewing Remote Central, the recent exhibition by the collaborative Future Force Geo Speculators (FFGS), one enters a time warp, a kind of future-past in which the artistic and political strategies of the historical left are recast in a Sci-Fi aesthetic to reimagine a more perfect present. Hardline feminism and cottage industry craft, in particular textiles, are employed or rather deployed throughout the works on view, installed en masse to emulate a makeshift agora or meeting space that exists in a not-so-distant future.