Gray Area Grand Theater: Doom Loops: An Evening with Andrew Norman Wilson

Caffeinated and wildly energized, the far-reaching video works of Andrew Norman Wilson surf psychedelic landscapes littered with pop-cultural detritus, interrogating modes of image production while critiquing ideologies and aesthetics of contemporary techno-capitalism. With a fascination for fractal forms, spatio-temporal wormholes, infinity zooms and endlessly meandering, ever-forking narrativity, Wilson’s works explore the hall-of-mirrors doom loop of contemporary culture while presenting fascinatingly digressive, hyper-manic and obsessively detailed meditations on the thrills and horrors of our present-day dystopia.

Program to include Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: The Old Victrola, an infernally unbounded tunneling through architectural and virtual space (set to Alan Licht’s titular Beefheart/Donna Summer mashup); Impersonator, an abject meander through conspiracy-informed LA land- and mediascapes; In the Air Tonight, a speculative (and suspect) shaggy-dog story of Phil Collins and the origins of his inescapable earworm and more, including recent music video collaborations with vaporwaver supreme Oneohtrix Point Never. (Steve Polta)