Implicit in the concept of Alternate Realities is a self-contained, separate reality that coexists with our own. By working within this framework, artist Kamau Amu Patton sequences a set of materials into a series of events that appear in two parallel realms, the virtual and the actual. The premise of Alternate Realities as described by these two realms is an exploration into the primary ways we construct meaning and an investment into the patterns of experiences as they occur in relation to one another. His proposal for Alternate Realities, entitled Potential Reality Construct, consists of both a web-based model on the website (enter below) and a stage-based model for the one-night event at New Langton Arts (documentation coming soon).

As the user encounters the web-based model, moving through the links at the end of each page, their pathway activates and cycles through the sound and image files contained within the proposal. Concurrent to the succession and additive chain of content from Patton's site is also a specific set of actions for a performance in the actual world. However, because of their obvious unlikeliness (e.g. a performance by The Living Theatre, a 1960s experimental theatre group that disbanded decades ago) these actions situate the impossible and equally determine a sustained mode of irresolution. As a result, the Potential Reality Construct, rather than making a claim towards permanence, rests on the notion that reality is irregular, exists in a state of flux and is constantly resolving itself from one realm to the next.

To learn more about the artist's proposal, Patton's description of his proposal is available here. Read an essay discussing the project, On Kamau Amu Patton: Oscillating Between Parallel Realms by Devon Bella.