“How to Travel in Time” Exhibition

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poster for “How to Travel in Time” Exhibition
[Image: Morehshin Allahyari "Material Speculation: Ebu" (2015) (detail)]

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organized by S.I. Rosenbaum

Featuring work by:
Morehshin Allahyari
Lee Brogan
Hector Ferreiro
Nicholas Galanin
Gideon Rubin
Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind


EXHIBITION ESSAY:
“The prime purpose of time travel is to change the past; and the prime danger is that the Traveler might change the past.” — Larry Niven, The Theory and Practice of Time Travel1

Give me back my name
Give me back my name
Something has been changed in my life
Something has been changed in my life
Something must be returned to us
Something must be returned to us
— Talking Heads, “Give Me Back My Name”2

1.
In 2015, when the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts needed a word for telephone, they had to perform an act of time displacement to get it.

No one had spoken Wôpanâak in hundreds of years, but one member of the tribe, Jessie Baird, had a dream in which ancestors told her to bring the language home. Studying at MIT, she was able to reconstruct a grammar and vocabulary from a cache of manuscripts penned by Wampanoag ancestors in the 1600s. The goal was to recreate a community that spoke Wôpanâak: to share a language is to be a people, and to be a people is to have a future. Reviving the language was a bulwark against a continuing genocide.

So they needed a word for telephone. The women workin…
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S.I. Rosenbaum is a journalist and artist born in Boston and living in Queens.

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from November 08, 2018 to December 22, 2018

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