世界末日其實(shí)是一種隱喻的說(shuō)法，它幫助人們?nèi)ンw悟，近年來(lái)，作為一種后果而不論是在這個(gè)星球上還是在人類身邊，所發(fā)生的巨大變遷。我們生活在一個(gè)可以被稱為“前天啟”的新紀(jì)元里。在這個(gè)時(shí)代，支撐全球人類現(xiàn)代生活方式的珍貴能源，或正在急劇縮減，或引發(fā)著災(zāi)難和意外惡果。

此次展覽中經(jīng)過(guò)選擇的藝術(shù)創(chuàng)作群體，主要探討了如石油峰值、氣候變化、能源短缺這三管齊下的全球性議題，成為我們這個(gè)時(shí)代最大的患。當(dāng)然，我們還有其他各種危機(jī)，如抗生素耐藥、基因工程細(xì)菌危害、人工智能（機(jī)器人學(xué)）導(dǎo)致傳統(tǒng)勞動(dòng)力失業(yè)等。

規(guī)劃以七次展覽作為一個(gè)序列的完整藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目，我們并不考慮最終提供解決之道。但每一個(gè)展覽章節(jié)都將有助于觀者來(lái)理解經(jīng)歷喪慟的七個(gè)階段--震驚、拒絕、議價(jià)、愧疚、憤怒、抑郁、希望。所以，這次首展，當(dāng)然是關(guān)于震驚。

可能只會(huì)在最后一個(gè)階段，也就是在希望中，我們將開始重新思考，如何在一個(gè)和現(xiàn)有的，并不可持續(xù)發(fā)展的模式結(jié)構(gòu)完全不同的生活樣式中。

策展人 魏皓啟

The end of the world is a metaphor, useful for understanding the monumental changes that are occurring presently, both to our planet and, as a consequence, to the human species. We are living in an epoch that can be termed pre-apocalypse, when multiple resources that vitally support modern living, and the global population, are either dwindling or causing catastrophic and unintended consequences.

The artworks selected to appear in this exhibition deal principally with the triumvirate concerns of peak oil, climate change, and resource scarcity, being now the chief concerns of our age,notwithstanding myriad other issues, such as antibiotic resistance,genetic engineering, and AI/robotic workforce replacement.

Envisioned as a series of seven exhibitions, we are not concerned with providing solutions, so much as with aiding the viewer through the seven stages of grieving - shock, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger,depression, and hope. This first exhibition is of course, shock.

Only with the final stage, hope, may we begin to reconsider life lived within a differently constructed paradigm than our present, unsustainable one.

Hutch Wilco, Curator.