USA vs. Time by Geoff Kim

“The recent launch of the Virgin Galactic, a private space tourism program has stirred memories of the shutdown NASA’s space shuttle program a few months prior. Once an iconic image for American political dominance during the Cold War, the space shuttle seems to have retired, at least for now. This shift from a long standing ideal of the government funded space program, who made history by landing a group of humans on the moon has now come full circle with the privatization of space. NASA will continue its exploration in space, but while the investments divert their direction to space tourism, there will be a new piece added to the conversation of public-to-private programs that have plagued many public programs including education and health care.”

Born in Northern California, Geoff Kim is an artist recently graduated from Eugene Lang College of New School University and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. His collage and mixed media work aims to build unseen and untold visual narratives as well as address the impact of visual culture itself in a globalized society. Juxtaposing new and old, Geoff uses found print material to merge popular visual culture of previous ‘present’ moments with images of contemporary visual culture creating a merger of time and worlds.

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