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In the August hangover of America’s 250th birthday, an incision in our micro-cinema will open itself to the dense labyrinthine nothing that permeates its tendrils and suffocates the physical world above, infecting and hooking us to an infinite carousel of violence and self-serving detachment. This realm of lack is known to some as the Numb Spiral, a (non)place artist and filmmaker M. Woods has not only returned from, but has sought to map in their immersive —and often intermixed— body of film, photography, VR, and poetry.
Woods will visit Spectacle on Friday August 8th to act as both our tour guide and illicit media-pharmacist through the hallucinatory nightmare of despair and unrest of the first Trump presidency and COVID-19 pandemic, as depicted in their apocalyptic auto-biographical feature documentary COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE. For those brave enough to experience an unsupervised multi-media collage-induced trance, this essential primer in Numb Spiral spelunking will reoccur three more times throughout the month.
On Sunday August 9th, return for a second dose to witness the artist present/perform a series of short video and films works, connecting further nodes among the network of digital sickness.