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During this week's "Wednesday Afternoon Show," hear Abigail Simon and Yvonne Shortt of Solstice Sisters Collective speak with Wave Farm Radio Director Meredith Kooi about their current exhibition Apophenia that's up at 258 Main Street in Saugerties until July 27, 2025.

Opening track: "November 4, 9:14-9:23AM" off the self-released "Oct. 28 & Nov. 4 2024" by Music for Furniture
Closing track: "The Cloud Trap," a new, currently unreleased track by Bradford Reed

Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Monday, noon-6pm.

Events:
Thursday, July 24 at 6pm: Music for Furniture Saturday, July 26 at 4pm: Marianne Shaneen reads Flowerbots and Artificial Moons followed by Bradford Reed (Pencilina) and Rhys Tivey (Trumpet)
Sunday, July 27 at 4pm: Closing party

In a world saturated with data, brands, and simulation, how do we know what’s real—and why does it matter?

Artists: Lisa Brown, Lisa Crafts, Meredith Drum, Darlene Farris-LaBar, Elena Grossman, Heather O’Brien Takahashi, Marianne Shaneen, Abigail Simon, Colleen Rae Smiley, Workshop of Shortt, Marina Zurkow

Join the artists of the Solstice Sisters Collective for APOPHENIA, a pop-up exhibition responding to Pattern Recognition, William Gibson’s genre-blurring 2003 novel that reads like a premonition of our present moment. Equal parts mystery, media theory, and cultural diagnosis, the novel is a mystery without a villain, a thriller without action, a science fiction novel set in the now. Written in the shadow of 9/11, it unfolds in a world of secret networks, encrypted transmissions, and the hidden architectures of capitalism and power.

The participating artists mine its rich themes—global hyperconnection, authenticity, trauma, marketing, grief—to explore how contemporary consciousness is shaped by surveillance, symbolism, aesthetics, and desire. Works include video, installation, virtual reality, sculpture, drawing, and social practice. The show interrogates the architecture of longing and the quiet violence of commodified emotion.

In a time when everyone is seeking a signal in the noise—whether in art, in politics, or in them- selves—this exhibition asks: Are we decoding meaning, or projecting it? Are we resisting the system, or feeding it?

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