![]() In February 2021, the whole NFT craze was already underway. I think I was trying to capture the isolation we were feeling at the time and comment on how brick-and-mortar galleries, and the world around us, were crumbling in the wake of Covid. The first exhibition, “End Demo,” was set on a stark, bleached island, with artworks installed in ruins. I wanted to create a new kind of space for virtual shows that would situate art in different contexts. In the following interview, Wu+ discusses the genesis of EPOCH, how he collaborates with artists to digitize and display their work, and his approach to NFTs.ĮPOCH started at the beginning of quarantine when artists were losing exhibition opportunities. It features past and present recipients of the Lab’s granting program in a landscape modeled after the excavation site where the new LACMA building is under construction. “Echoes,” the exhibition currently featured on the EPOCH Gallery website, was developed in collaboration with the Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Replicants,” EPOCH’s second NFT show, reconstructed a dusky, rain-slicked street in Hong Kong, evocative of Blade Runner, as a setting for the art. Starting with “Freeport” this past summer, its exhibitions have been for sale as NFTs collectors receive the environment and all the works in it. Viewers navigate the shows through a point-and-click system that harkens back to graphic adventure games like Myst. Each exhibition at EPOCH situates works by multiple artists in atmospheric virtual environments, textured with signs of ruin and decay. What would it look like to sell works of digital art as an ensemble? Multimedia artist Peter Wu+ is exploring this question through his project EPOCH Gallery. The NFT art market is often described as lacking context: individual works sell on crowded platforms where it’s hard to identify meaningful connections among them. Collections EPOCH Gallery by Outland February 7, 2022
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