Z-Space is the fourth iteration of Goodbye Tomorrow's notroious GRID series. For this entry, the GRID was used as the backdrop for a curated art show in collaboration with Expo Chicago.
Z-Space is the fourth edition of a continually expanding installation by art collective Goodbye Tomorrow. Z-Space incorporates lyrical double-entendre to inform the visual elements of a grid, while exploring installation art that creates congregative spaces that simultaneously exhbits other work within it. Goodbye Tomorrow draws on its background as a music label with the various interpretations of the term “depth” manifesting itself as a literal grid, physical reality differentiating 2D from 3D, and the idea of interpersonal interaction and fellowship. Past iterations of the grid have seen it used as a backdrop for fashion retail by providing a completely altered environment evoking shoppers to question their visual perception of reality and providing a more interactive shopping experience. Goodbye Tomorrow’s use of accessible building materials, repurposed to create an expansive and, at times, disorientng space, further pushed the questions and dialogue between viewers.
This latest iteration of Z-Space in partnership with EXPO Chicago saw the grid, for the first time, as a stand alone installation addressing Goodbye Tomorrow’s more conceptual motivations and focusing on their narrative concept embracing the idea of “community” and relocating commerce to the background.
The artists’ works featured within the installation, while being surprisingly cohesiveness visually, were curated by the partnering members of Goodbye Tomorrow and Congruent Space based on their relationships to the artists, and admiration of their works.
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Since its inception goodbye tomorrow was not a music group or a multimedia art collective or anything else it’s been described as - but has been a practice of distancing from the illusion of SELF or individuality (we instead of i). U can’t stop until you have built the platform, the people will add the depth.
Its a grid. Get it? All 3 axis XYZ, the fundamental system of what reality is built on. Z don’t come for free, u gotta make it real. u can’t disappear before it’s real - create the system to cultivate depth (mind deep like a mine) mine’s explode outward, we can explode inward 2
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“goodbye tomorrow IS EVERYONE”, is always the phrase we use… The grid, on a surface level, is a physical embodiment of this idea! It’s a lot easier to understand physically than through music or visual art, right? XY is the “symbol” for GT bc it is all encompassing (x & y coordinates, xy chromosomes, etc, it even kind of sounds like “ask why”).
We called it “Z-space” bc in 3D rendering or measurement, the X and Y axes control left/right and up/down on the monitor. The Z axis, controls back and forward - the depth, in other words. The grid is “z-space,” in that whatever is inside of the space becomes that depth. Automatically becomes the focus of the conversation, whether our earlier iterations where it was more of a photo opportunity or a fashion brand on showcase, to this newest version with the focus more on the artwork itself. An art installation, itself, that is not quite complete until there are other artists or works within it. “Everyone.” The work, the creator, the observer, the identities and conversations amongst those identities start to converge. In one’s opinion, true art creates a conversation with one’s self more so than with the artist or object.
Making it by hand out of electric tape gives it a tangibility that vinyl graphics or paint would fail to convey, because the imperfections and temporality this method brings into the grid speaks highly to the “nowness“ and urgency to the physical space as compared to the works housed with it.
From a more meta-conceptual standpoint, viewed from outside the grid takes on more of a spatial design role, speaking to the building blocks we all see without seeing. Viewed from within, it takes on new meaning because it always extends beyond the possible field of vision, turning the observer into the observation, or the creator into the creation. Consciousness, conscious of itself. That’s what take human consciousness from concept to concrete from an idea to a planet and it’s acted out in micro-scale any type you
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