Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

This book takes the form of a four-act play piecing together parts of seminal texts by leading theorists on postmodernism, a pastiche that shapes a fictional conversation about our relationship with time⎯itself performing the ideas addressed by the publication.

Authored by James Voorhies

Columbus College of Art & Design, Bureau for Open Culture, 2011
188 pages
8.25 x 5 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

Contributions by Guy Ben-Ner, Joachim Brohm, Gerard Byrne, Malcolm Cochran, Peter Dayton, Ben Kinsley, Lara Kohl, Jeremy Kost, Mark Leckey, Mary Lum, Dennis McNulty, Timothy Nazzaro, Johannes Nyholm, Pipilotti Rist, Cassandra Troyan, Jeffrey Vallance, Alejandro Vidal

Made possible with funding and staff of Columbus College of Art & Design with grants from Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council and Sociedad Estatal de Acción Cultural; realized within my responsibilities as Director of Exhibitions at Columbus College of Art & Design

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven is the integral companion to the eponymous exhibition that considered how the passage of time once evidenced by material culture has been subsumed by a kind of contact present whereas technology and social media obscure easy interpretations of past and present.

The book has original musical scores composed by Umbrella Men with lyrics drawn from Orwell’s 1984.

PDF, Music, Exhibition