This Might Not
Be for Now

In this screening organized in collaboration with Cabinet in NYC and Public Fiction in Los Angeles, a series of video works with Skowhegan alums converge, focused on four different topics: “This might not be for now”; “This might have been for the past or could be for later”; “This might occur again and again”; “This might not occur at all”.

This Might Not Be for Now refers to the noncommittal relationship or fleeting romance, the shifting cultural media, the liaison with the passing story or style. The way in which a song seems to waft out of every bodega, drug store, and car stereo in the city for two short months encapsulating the idea of a brief summer. The way in which politicians and the news machine fluctuate, jumping from one topic to another, making promises, plying us with what is currently most important. The way in which our collective consciousness feels—for an instant—either gratification, or is driven to act, investigate, demand until oversaturation and overstimulation before arrival at the next big thing.

This Might Not Be for Now is the myriad of replication and dissemination platforms through which we gain and share information in our contemporary moment. Our individual memories and cultural ideas of the past and of history are in flux, unstable, and soon to be misremembered, rewritten, edited, amended. There is a recurrence of rose-tinted nostalgia for the past, dissatisfaction with the present, and the promise or hope of the future. This Might Not Be for Now exists in an in-between, a purgatoryesque state of being, neither here nor there, in two places at once, or with the proverbial one-foot-out-the-door. 

A second screening will take place on Thursday, May 15th at 7:30 PM at Public Fiction (749 Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA, 90042).