FACTION is a three-fold program that delights in a fanciful remix of fact and fiction and prods at the classical ideal of truth in representation. Addressing the variety of ways in which we receive information, the program consists of a screening at New Langton Arts; an exhibition at CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery; and a printed zine. The very coinage of the term FACTION brazenly alters the word's true linguistic lineage in order to hold us to a new vision of FACTION as "an act of fiction and fact."

On offer through each of these modes will be an eclectic sampling of artists who confuse a vocabulary of the real by pushing familiar objects, sites or sentiments into the realm of the imagined. This program is a timely exploration of themes central to the information age. The resulting presentation of video, text, objects, and images seduces while it confounds and thus highlights a revolving negotiation within the history of art: the tension between the real and the imaginary. Selections for FACTION are gathered from current production within the California College of the Arts and beyond, allowing the full gamut of practices between emergent to established artists to be considered.

Participating curators: Petrushka Bazin, Jessica Brier, Chialin Chou, Courtenay Finn, Anna Gritz, Clare Haggarty, Danny Orendorff, Kate Phillimore, Sarah Robayo Sheridan