Sci-Fi Stuff That Deserves Cult Followings
Does a museum show occupy space — or should it send us hurtling through it? Such is loosely the premise of two very different New York shows, the New Museum’s “Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module†and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “The Shadows Took Shape,†both featuring art inspired by 1960s and 1970s science fiction films. The New Museum show takes as its central conceit the 1963 Czech film “Ikarie XB-1” (released in the US as “Voyage to the End of the Universe”), a work with a deserved cult following and an influence on Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Pictured is Cristina de Middel’s 2012 work ‘Iko Iko (from the “Afronauts†series).’
