THE PHOTIC WAVE: COSMIC RIVULET
THE PHOTIC WAVE: COSMIC RIVULET
Nightmare City, a Los Angeles and Berlin based collective presents THE PHOTIC WAVE: COSMIC RIVULET, a new media environment that uses a pastiche of display tactics and technologies from mismatched eras reaching simultaneously forwards and backwards through time.
Opening Reception:
October 15th from 7 - 10pm
This exhibition extends Nightmare City’s ongoing project to augment physical space and viewer experience, through audio/visual experiments and distributed networks while borrowing aesthetics from rave, party culture and postshamanic rituals.
The Photic Wave is a multimedia environment using video and 3D structures, an immersive installation that describes The Photic Wave: an ideological organization invented by Nightmare City as a vessel for their research on new spiritualist movements. This exhibition presupposes the invention of a sect whose beliefs reside at the center of a metaphorical and metaphysical prism between visionary social architectural frameworks, interspecies communication between humans and dolphins, and the unrealized utopian promise of broadcast television. Indoctrination videos in conjunction with ritual-depicting video sculptures and a mysteriously iconic 35mm slide projection are the parenthetical brackets, the beginning and end, the alpha and omega of the sect’s meta-program of infinite awareness.
As a primary element of this exhibition, Nightmare City has produced a large inflatable bubble, inside of which audiences are invited to encounter the transcendent theta frequencies as they bathe amongst the projected light and sound that fills the inner space. Videos and photographs shot on location at sacred spectral sites such as Giant Rock, The Integratron, and Pfeiffer Beach depict the duo performing ceremonial gestures with a diaphanous inflatable form. As a continuation of Nightmare City’s work with homage and quotation, these inflatable forms reference 1960s and 70s Californian counterculture projects such as the collectives Ant Farm and USCO.
A Message from The Photic Wave
Experience the presence of the eternal envelope. Know the lightness and weight of eons. Embrace the fluid freedom of perfect polyethylene. Vibrate with us at the THETA frequency: the origin point for THE PHOTIC WAVE’s meta-program of infinite awareness.
THE PHOTIC WAVE resides at the heart of a metaphorical and metaphysical prism.
In this triangular intersection between
(1) visionary social architectural frameworks
(2) interspecies communication between humans and dolphins, and
(3) the utopian promise of broadcast television,
THE PHOTIC WAVE vibrates from the molecular to the celestial level at THETA frequency.
In this dream state between sleep and wakefulness, THETA brainwaves are associated with
increased creativity, dolphin encounters, meditative and trance states, Structuralist film and states of euphoria.
THETA is the origin point for THE PHOTIC WAVE’s meta-program of infinite awareness
We live in a time of great personal,
social and environmental transformation.
Join us and awaken the Dolphin within
and surf this new energy to a new shore.
a better place for our children
and our children’s children:
a better tomorrow today