Fore Cast
Exhibition Dates: December 19 - December 25, 2006
Opening December 19, 2006 at 6pm - December 25, 1am
(VideoBox): Fore Cast: An Environmental Disaster Opera,
by Mary Mattingly 24-Hour Live-Feed of Installation and Performance-Opera inside of White Box
View photos of the exhibition
An opera by Mary Mattingly
with Jessica and Sarah from The Redcoats Are Coming!
Fore Cast will run and be open to the public for six days and one hour,
from the morning of December 19, until 1:00 am on Christmas morning.
Fore Cast is a clarion call anticipating the looming environmental catastrophy.
Fore Cast is an interactive Opera, opening at White Box on December 19, 2006,
at six o'clock pm. Fore Cast will transform White Box's space into a waterlogged,
apocalyptic swampland, soundscape, and videosurround. The opening
and closing nights will feature live performances by Mary Mattingly's Navigators.
Entering a water-filled and truncated landscape, viewers witness the land's predicted
end-state, a reversion to its primeval condition and a topographical perspective of
a sick new world. The marshy waterscape is the setting for the future of a civilization
ensnared in an unceasing loop of WWIV, a war Albert Einstein foreshadowed as being
fought with sticks and stones. With an unparalleled innate sense of intelligence, wit
and craft, Mary Mattingly creates an installation explains the tragic outcomes of this
hypothesized war in the not-so-distant future.
Multiple video projectors arranged in a semi-circle fill the walls of White Box and
present a "Fore Cast" that will loop for six days and one hour. (A new week, according
to Mary Mattingly's proprietary uniform time scale, derived from ancient Assyrian and
Babylonian astronomical methodology and translated to a system for future use.) The
videos play continuously in White Box's waterlogged space. The main screen portrays
WWIV, fought by six groups of combatants ---The World Economic Forum, The Council on
Foreign Relations, Bechtel, Nestlé, The United Nations, and B.R.I.C.--- colluding
to capture and assert political and economic control over a shattered and borderless
world. The belligerents' leaders plot together in a corporate conference rooms, ultimately
degenerating into intercontinental world-scale conflict fought with the weapons of Cain
and Abel, the war unfolding in disastrous environments everywhere.
Ms. Mattingly is an internationally renowned artist. Her work, currently in the
ICP's Photographic Triennial "Ecotopia", has received numerous awards. Her work has
appeared in ArtForum, The Photo Review, Photograph Quarterly, and other journals in
the US and abroad.
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