世界末日其实是一种隐喻的说法，它帮助人们去体悟，近年来，作为一种后果而不论是在这个星球上还是在人类身边，所发生的巨大变迁。我们生活在一个可以被称为“前天启”的新纪元里。在这个时代，支撑全球人类现代生活方式的珍贵能源，或正在急剧缩减，或引发着灾难和意外恶果。

此次展览中经过选择的艺术创作群体，主要探讨了如石油峰值、气候变化、能源短缺这三管齐下的全球性议题，成为我们这个时代最大的患。当然，我们还有其他各种危机，如抗生素耐药、基因工程细菌危害、人工智能（机器人学）导致传统劳动力失业等。

规划以七次展览作为一个序列的完整艺术项目，我们并不考虑最终提供解决之道。但每一个展览章节都将有助于观者来理解经历丧恸的七个阶段--震惊、拒绝、议价、愧疚、愤怒、抑郁、希望。所以，这次首展，当然是关于震惊。

可能只会在最后一个阶段，也就是在希望中，我们将开始重新思考，如何在一个和现有的，并不可持续发展的模式结构完全不同的生活样式中。

策展人 魏皓启

The end of the world is a metaphor, useful for understanding the monumental changes that are occurring presently, both to our planet and, as a consequence, to the human species. We are living in an epoch that can be termed pre-apocalypse, when multiple resources that vitally support modern living, and the global population, are either dwindling or causing catastrophic and unintended consequences.

The artworks selected to appear in this exhibition deal principally with the triumvirate concerns of peak oil, climate change, and resource scarcity, being now the chief concerns of our age,notwithstanding myriad other issues, such as antibiotic resistance,genetic engineering, and AI/robotic workforce replacement.

Envisioned as a series of seven exhibitions, we are not concerned with providing solutions, so much as with aiding the viewer through the seven stages of grieving - shock, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger,depression, and hope. This first exhibition is of course, shock.

Only with the final stage, hope, may we begin to reconsider life lived within a differently constructed paradigm than our present, unsustainable one.

Hutch Wilco, Curator.