[Noisebridge-discuss] Kaltek NYC Exhibit opening July 9, 2011, 6 PM

[kal spelletich]

KAL SPELLETICH
WHERE'S MY JETPACK!?
machines, robots, jetpacks, video and photographs
*Opening Saturday, July 9th 6-8PM*
Closing Party Friday August 12, 2011
*Beer & BBQ*
July 9th - August 12th, 2011

JACK HANLEY GALLERY
136 Watts Street
New York, NY 10013
646.918.6824

*Go West on Canal St., way west, 2 blocks past Hudson, left on Watts.*
 http://www.jackhanley.com/


Before flying was a means to an end, it was a sensation. The perennial
struggle to fly sought a deep-rooted joy of weightlessness, the release of
our own corporeality, and the all-too-human satisfaction of  “touching the
sky”. The flying machine made the human superhuman. For Kal Spelletich,
flight’s future promise may be gone but not forgotten – where are the
jetpacks? The flying cars, escape pods, gravity boots, moon colonies? This
is supposed to be the future. Where’s My Jetpack?! takes us back to a moment
of invention. Or perhaps, reminds us that its time is now.

As always with flight, there is an element of danger. The aspiration to
conquer the sky comes with a gut-wrenching fear of free fall, an Icaran
fate. Machinery may have liberated the body from gravity, but not the mind;
Spelletich asks us to to consider how the body might transcend the mind in
order to free it as well. Where’s My Jetpack? celebrates the fact that we
are still participants in an ancient and ongoing struggle to conquer
gravity.

Kal Spelletich received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and
currently lives and works in a Socialist arts collective in San Francisco,
California.  Spelletich helped foundSEEMEN, a collective of individuals who
enjoy building extreme machines and robotsthat they allow their audience to
operate. He is a notorious guerilla gardener and activist.He has also worked
with the legendary machine performance art group, Survival
Research Laboratories.

Neither Kal Spelletich, Jack Hanley Gallery nor anyone shall be held
responsible or liable for any LOSS, DAMAGE, INJURY or DEATH arising from any
activity organized, sponsored or promoted by Kal or Jack the presenting
organization anywhere in the universe, forever.
*EVIGILO FABRICA LABORIS EXERCITUS SODALITAS*
-- 
JACK HANLEY GALLERY
136 Watts Street
New York, NY 10013
646.918.6824


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http://kaltek.wordpress.com/
http://kaltek.org/
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