Jul 23rd 2010

Grant W. Ray: If Nature Could Talk

@ Spoke

119 N Peoria St, 3D, Chicago, IL 60607

Opening Friday, July 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM

On view through Sunday, July 25th

If Nature Could Talk, is an interactive event that explores the uncanny relationship between art, science, and nature. Based on the investigation of Human/Nature dynamics through marks, traces and symbols of pseudo-scientific experiments, the work suggests what nature might be thinking and feeling in an evidentiary context. Chicago based artist, Grant W. Ray has photographed these strange attempts at communicating with nature. He will be presenting this historic archive and five extraordinary inventions for two nights only at Spoke Gallery. Participants will be invited to interact with ordinary objects that have extraordinary functions such as, “Ronald Johnson’s Talking Plants,” which reportedly translates the thoughts of domesticated houseplants into a language you can understand.

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