Show Cave: Permanent Vacation

It’s the last weekend of Summer. So why are you online? Save the excuses– but at least if you’re going to waste the day indoors, basking in the cool glow of your LCD screen, why not take a break from absent-mindedly clicking endlessly through an ever-expanding deluge of static cyber content?

Take a deep breath, relinquish control, and allow yourself to be passively entertained by awesome video art for the next 40 minutes. How? By sinking into Permanent Vacation, a series of videos curated by awesome L.A. gallery space Show Cave. Watch as 16 different artists ruminate on the transient nature of relaxation, including stellar entries from the likes of Hazel Hill McCarthy III, Genesis P-Orridge, Richard Bott of Animal Charm, and Eric Wareheim. Summer might be ending soon, but “forever is just around the corner.”

The concept of vacation can conjour up feelings of escapism or a total disregard of the mundane. Vacation is a chance to “let your hair down” and to enter a contrived oblivion of excess. But what if what was meant to be temporary continues forever? PERMANENT VACATION supposes the effects of a never-ending story.