GREATER ENERGY was a group exhibition featuring Noelle Choy, William Lanzillo, Jordan Wong. 

Ideas of desire are sensationalized in pop culture through phenomenons of fandom, love, and coincidence. Spectators become the spectacle. Jordan’s film highlights queer implications seen in the heartthrob demon-hunting television show Supernatural, as the shipped characters infamously canonize it as an epic slow burn gay romance. The film sets the backdrop for cosmic existential quandary and its reflexive relationship to the hilarious and mundane. By combining the work of these three artists, space is created to explore how cultural narratives mythologize themselves into reality, pushing us towards a distilled vision of real, honest, love and connection.

Jordan Wong’s film, which analyzes the queer implications in the canonization of the shipped (a term used to describe fan fictions that take previously created characters and put them as a pair) characters in Supernatural, will be in conversation with Noelle and William’s collaborative sculptural interpretations of these similar themes. The gay subtext of the show’s character shipping remarks on how entertainment narratives (in their conspiracy fandom, glitches, romance, corniness, etc.) mythologize themselves, and push us towards a distilled vision of real and honest love and connection. 

Combining performative sculpture, objects, video and interaction, William and Noelle share an interest in creating the impossible in order to reimagine the world, whether this be through exploring intergenerational time travel, or creating a novel experience that disrupts the day to day understanding of a place or social relationship. William and Noelle have used analog and experimental methods of show-making, such as handmade costuming, and quick, and directly functional fabrication in past collaborations to explore absurd notions of life and death, and will bring these overlaps to this collaborative installation. By combining the work of these three artists, space will be created to explore themes and ideas across multiple mediums and frameworks.