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Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Strange Attractor, a group exhibition organized by guest curator Gryphon Rue. Strange Attractor will be on view in Marfa from March 2017 鈥� August 2017, with an opening reception from 6 鈥� 8:30pm on Friday, March 10, 2017. The reception will feature a unique collaborative performance by artist and musician Lonnie Holley and psych duo Tonstartssbandht, with visuals by Benton C Bainbridge.

Strange Attractor is an exhibition exploring the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound. The term 鈥渟trange attractor鈥� describes the inherent order embedded in chaos, perceivable in harmonious yet unpredictable patterns. This mathematical concept is a useful trope for the elusive order in our lived experience, and the vital pursuit of making meaning from unexpected connections. Strange Attractor presents an array of multidisciplinary works tracing the disparity between individual perception and the vast abstractions of the contemporary moment. New and commissioned works employing sound, site and technology form the connective tissue of this expansive terrain.

As part of this process Strange Attractor invites the collision of historical and contemporary artworks in diverse media. The exhibition will feature Alexander Calder鈥檚 previously unseen, sound-making, hanging mobile Clangors, (1942) alongside Channa Horwitz鈥� numerological graphic scores, together with contemporary pieces from artists working in a dazzling range of mediums.

For her newly commissioned work for Strange Attractor, artist Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body. She has been working with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large-scale figurative sculpture grown from mycelium. The final result will be a 鈥済rown-to-be-shown鈥� larger-than-life installation of Charon, the ferryman of Greek mythology who transports the dead across the river Styx. This biotech sculpture will have a usable lifespan of 30 years, after which it will biodegrade and may be regrown by the artist at her discretion.