Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe create architectural installations that physically and psychologically immerse viewers in an expansive alternate universe. Sunset Corridor, 2024, is the latest chapter in the artists’ deep dive into the San San Universe, their fictional, retrofuturistic domain. San San is partially based on a futurist theory put forth by Herman Kahn and Anthony Weiner in their book The Year 2000 (1967), which speculated that San Diego and San Francisco would merge into one giant metropolis by the turn of the twenty-first century. Although this prediction never came to pass, the theory is foundational to Freeman and Lowe’s creation: an adjacent world that parallels modern-day reality and illuminates our society’s relationships to technology, music, drugs, subcultures, and politics.

This new series will kick off with a lecture by the collaborative duo Jonah Freeman + Justin Lowe as they discuss Sunset Corridor, 2024, their latest chapter of the ongoing series of narrative ecosystems, Saturday, October 5 at 2 pm in the Modern’s auditorium.