workspace is pleased to present After Total Darkness, by Adam Katz and David Godshall
in collaboration with the Object Control project.

Opening reception January 3rd, 8:00pm
installation + small book release + party
(By appointment through January 24th)

After Total Darkness is a small constructed environment, dark but for the light of your candles. A variety of plants, some plastic and others protected by patent law, fill the space and spin from the ceiling. Solar radio transmissions squeak and crackle in anticipation of 2012, the solar maximum and the end of the Mayan calendar. It’s about sharing, a new consciousness and a common good. It is a synthesis of sometimes overlapping ideas from various disciplines: cultural theory, intellectual property law, American Romanticism, environmental science and landscape design. There will also be a small book, but it is unlikely to explain anything.

The imperative to protect our cultural commons springs from the same simple logic that compels us to restore our earthly resources and preserve what remains of our natural ecological commons. Just as we have all lost the darkness of night, there is no good without a common good. All knowledge, and especially artistic/creative production, derives its potency in exchange, compounds its power through collaboration, and only sustains value over time with successive reworkings (historical partnership).

PDF of the book we made to accompany the exhibition
For those of you who got a paper copy, you can rest soundly knowing that you have one in a very limited edition run!
Then again, if anybody actually wants to buy a beautifully printed and hand bound book, you can contact us for a special print on demand version. write us at info@workspace2601.co

If you took photographs at the opening and would like to share them with us, please upload to our public flickr group