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In Practice: Literally means collapse is an exhibition of new works and artistic meditations that consider an expanded notion of the ruin that includes social tradition as much as physical infrastructure. From built environments and structures of circulation, to protocols and belief systems that shape social and political subjects, infrastructures are in a constant generative friction with decay. Rituals of maintenance are designed and performed to prevent what is constructed from being subjectively ruined. Diagnosing a contemporary obsession with ruins, artist and theorist Svetlana Boym writes, 鈥溾�楻uin鈥� literally means 鈥榗ollapse鈥� 鈥� but actually, ruins are more about remainders and reminders.鈥� [1] Boym elaborates that, as sites, they can trigger both potential nostalgias and imagined futures. Existing among ruins is existing among spaces of asynchronous time 鈥� of histories and timescales collapsed.

The artists in the exhibition trace collapse through material and metaphor. Some artists in the exhibition examine the failures of cities and other containers of information, working with and against the anxieties of deterioration. Some remind us of the strategic disintegration and flattening of symbols and aesthetics. Others embrace the breaking down of space, time, language, and other familiar logics. In Practice: Literally means collapse is a series of overlapping studies into timescales of ruin and what doesn鈥檛 yet remain.