Glossodelic Attractors

March - September 2012 Seattle, WA

Henry Art Gallery Gary Hill Retrospective Reilly Donovan: lead assistant to Gary Hill, lead installer www.henryart.org

"Glossodelic Attractors suggests a range of meanings from the etymologies "glosso-" (fr. Greek "language, tongue") and "-delic" (fr. Greek "make manifest, visible") and resonates with "glossolalia" and "psychedelic." "Attractors," in addition to the mathematical meaning of "a set towards which a dynamical system evolves over time (e.g., strange attractor),""connects with the "-tropic" part of "psychotropic"-attractors that orient the mind, turn the mind in a new direction. The title indicates that the selected works perform singular initiations into dynamical/lingual events. As psychotropic languaging vehicles these works reorient the mind by altering our conception of what language is. They attract possible language realities-or, rather, lingualities." - George Quasha, in dialogue with Gary Hill and Charles Stein

For Glossodelic Attractors I helped organize and set up all of the systems for every installation in both parts of the show.

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