Moore College of Art & Design is pleased to present Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium, a two-pronged exhibition presented concurrently at The Galleries at Moore and the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, October 4 through December 6. Join us for the premiere performance and opening reception on Friday, October 3rd. Lopez’s Pandemonium, a new, immersive multimedia video commissioned by Moore and filmed specifically for the planetarium, anchors the 4D experience of the exhibition. Extending her toolkit to include mechatronics, animation, sound, and VR film, Lopez captures the riotous beauty of a rising tornado in a 360-degree format. As the whirlwind of Pandemonium unfolds across the vast space of the planetarium, animated debris and archival material swirl past which include 1950s-70s newspaper headlines that speak to social and political upheaval. Lopez considers the tornado as a devastating natural phenomenon stemming from unstoppable climate change and as a symbol of the swelling media landscape of misinformation. Cyclical and destructive, the tornado points toward imminent global collapse. Around the corner in Moore’s galleries, the exhibition will present selected sculptural works that seem to teeter on collapse or imply imminent changes in atmosphere and perception.