Allegories of Inertia

Allegories of Inertia questions personal simulation and performativity. We as individuals investigate virtue signaling and karmic gravity when considering mobility, so naturally, this influences our sense of time and trajectory. The gallery is designed to reflect different experiences with time, allegorically as “competitors” within liminal space, from the perspective of broken time, and in allegorical reference to the ’96 Summer Olympics breaking infrastructural time in Atlanta, GA. In nationally including global tourism through the black belt south, all simulations of social ecologies were broken and fragmented in the rush to expansion. This, in many ways is meant to foreshadow what is to come of infrastructural time and performativity as Kansas City prepares for the hyper-development wave, post FIFA 2026. Allegories of Inertia investigates true occupancy of time-based space via performance. Featuring: Caleb Jamel Brown (BKNY/ATL), Yulie Urano (KCK), Shawn Bitters (KCMO), Marie Bannerot McInerney (KCMO), Noelle Choy (KCMO), Kandy G Lopez (FLA), Alexis Borth (KCMO)     

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