1,000 Tiny Wounds presented at Rubicon ARI, 2021

Exhibition Text:

Swallowing an entire sub-division and inventing a new term, [REDACTED] where [REDACTED] briefly [REDACTED] you could almost forgot the [REDACTED] strings of disasters [REDACTED] we have settled into a new era, with everything transformed. [REDACTED] the end of normal; [REDACTED] in an unsure and unplanned [REDACTED] system [REDACTED]our bleak future in preview. 

The emergent portrait [REDACTED] with all the ferocity [REDACTED] will be [REDACTED] collectivity walking down a [REDACTED] different path [REDACTED] . These are the disconcerting, contradictory lessons  [REDACTED] each drawn from the same [REDACTED] system [REDACTED] so fragile that it has been brought to the brink of total instability [REDACTED] But that instability is also a measure [REDACTED] almost by accident, [REDACTED] of undoing it.

Even as we shiver in feat of it; [REDACTED] displacing certain anxieties [REDACTED] choosing to ignore the bleakest features of our possible future [REDACTED] we’d gone cross-eyed, [REDACTED] at no cost. [REDACTED] more panicked [REDACTED] less complacent, [REDACTED] Over the last few years, [REDACTED] skeptics have found [REDACTED] undeniable, [REDACTED] unclear- changes [REDACTED] and interventions. It is [REDACTED] at a terrifying pace [REDACTED] beyond our control.

[REDACTED] Now we [REDACTED] write the next act. We [REDACTED] engineer devastation, and [REDACTED] find [REDACTED] our way towards [REDACTED] the promise of finding [REDACTED] any reason for optimism. [REDACTED] I am [REDACTED] Given the prospect [REDACTED] of [REDACTED] the [REDACTED] unlivable [REDACTED] future [REDACTED] suffering beyond anything that humans have even experienced [REDACTED] a fatalistic scenario.

Do everything you can to make the world accommodate dignified [REDACTED]rather than giving up early, [REDACTED] and acclimating yourself to a dreary future [REDACTED] so long as we avoid extinction, [REDACTED] the decade that follows could contain more suffering [REDACTED] I am also excited, for [REDACTED] we could [REDACTED] be entering old age [REDACTED] between, [REDACTED] a genuinely existential threat, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] living [REDACTED] a happy ending. What cause is there for hope? [REDACTED] unspooling over even longer time horizons [REDACTED] an unending menace. [REDACTED] we are destroying [REDACTED] one hand as we conspire to restore it with the other.

[REDACTED] None of that has to continue. [REDACTED] That does not have to contuine. [REDACTED] The need not continue. [REDACTED] outside the darkest corners of [REDACTED] today [REDACTED] we’ve assembled, [REDACTED] a program to [REDACTED] change [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] entirely.

[REDACTED] to build something [REDACTED] imbued with [REDACTED] life [REDACTED]] a system of true [REDACTED] cooperation, [REDACTED] would be overwhelming, and total. [REDACTED] we are [REDACTED] retreating from each other. [REDACTED] collapse of trust is a cascade.

[REDACTED] not yet clear, [REDACTED] transformation remains an open question. [REDACTED] we know the losses as tragedy. [REDACTED] change could soon mean that, [REDACTED] we will look differently at [REDACTED] painting, [REDACTED] the oranges and reds [REDACTED] will no longer produce fruit; [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] in many cases, it is better to use the present tense.

Composed by Tinieka Page by collaging the writing of David Wallace-Wells.