ANXIOUS FUTURISM

Punctuating the approach to the grocery store, for example: An uncanny capacity to provoke as well as document the anxiety of a postutopian future become our heritage in scraps and sprawling damage: Jeremy Mende's installation now hitting the viali and vicoli of Rome, offering nothing, in spite of exquisite design skills, as spectacle and nothing for sale, only the void of a zone one hundred years from now asking to be thought of, imminent neighbor to Zombie Nation, or filled in with the lingering moment's choral rage ("8 March 2011: We won't pay for the crisis").