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Pleiades by James Turrell is a 15 minute, timed experience. Time slots are issued on a first come, first served basis at the exhibition entrance on the second floor of 500 Sampsonia.
Join Mattress Factory for Rot and Resurrection a special screening of two experimental works, Tempus Fugit and no more room in hell. Both films draw on the legacies and tropes of horror cinema to probe how hauntings of the past shape our present and possible futures. Tempus Fugit meditates on decay, memory, and the human desire to preserve what inevitably slips away, moving between an abandoned home and a cryonics lab in a ghostly reflection on the passage of time. no more room in hell, inspired by research in the George A. Romero Archive, situates the zombie within Pittsburgh’s industrial past and possible techno-capitalist future, asking what it means to be undead in our times.
Doors open at 7:30.
A Q&A with the filmmaker follows the screening.
Mattress Factory is proud to host the book launch of Could it be Love, the first monograph on the groundbreaking trans artist Greer Lankton (1958–1996). Known for her beautifully unsettling dolls and immersive installations, Lankton is revealed in this new volume as an extraordinary photographer with a singular eye. Lankton’s wit, compassion, and sense of spectacle brought to life through carefully staged photographs of her handmade figures.
Edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, and Nan Goldin, the book draws deeply from the Greer Lankton Archive, housed at Mattress Factory, to present over 100 of Lankton’s rarely seen photographs. These images offer an intimate and theatrical glimpse into Lankton’s inner world, one populated by glamorous oddballs, downtown legends, and avatars of her own making.
Join us for an evening of conversation with the editors as they reflect on Greer’s life, her artistic process, and the making of Could it be Love, followed by a rare screening of Lankton’s films.
Tickets include a copy of Could it be Love.
Doors at 6:30, discussion begins at 7.