Timothy Nazzaro, Untitled, 2010, gelatin silver print, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening night performance There is only light: (We do not know what to do with other worlds) by Cassandra Troyan as part of On Symptoms of Cultural Industry, a social and economic portrait of the history of North Adams, MA. Former Sprague employees and their families who participated in the work were in attendance.

Installation views, On Symptoms of Cultural Industry, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. 

Photographs by Timothy Nazzaro.

Videos of North Adams by Rachel Sherk.

Birds-eye, North Adams, MA, vintage postcard.

Publication designed by Nate Padavick with photographs by Timothy Nazzaro and text by James Voorhies, distributed free as part of exhibition. 

Projection of the performance There is only light: (We do not know what to do with other worlds) by Cassandra Troyan as part of On Symptoms of Cultural Industry. 

Reproduction of script for the performance There is only light: (We do not know what to do with other worlds) based on an oral history with former employees of Sprague Electric, now MASS MoCA. 

Timothy Nazzaro, Untitled, 2011, gelatin silver print, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.