Remote Central: Future Force Geo Speculators

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.

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