Published April 9, 2018 This content is archived.
“No Plan for the Future,” the latest installment in the UB Art Galleries’ Screen Projects public art video initiative, is on view through May 26 in the Center for the Arts.
All Screen Projects videos can be seen outside the second floor gallery of the UB Art Gallery in the hallway across from the elevator.
“No Plan for the Future” is a project by Buffalo-based virocode — a collaborative effort of UB alumni Peter D'Auria and Andrea Mancuso — that has been ongoing since Nov. 9, 2016, right after the 2016 presidential election.
Viewers searching for the hashtag #noplanforthefuture will see imperfect images of food — donuts spewing jelly, melted ice cream, splattered pies. These are part of virocode’s ongoing resistance to collective memory loss and the amnesia that social media platforms like Instagram perpetuate.
In a culture full of images of perfect food — who hasn’t seen someone in a restaurant break out their smartphone to take a picture of a perfect plate of food? — these images of food disasters remind the viewer that the real world is flawed and that expectations of perfection are unrealistic.