Ballardian

Note that Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. was the title of the original American edition of The Atrocity Exhibition:

Deep Ellum gallery and artists’ residency Centraltrak, part of The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities, is launching its first show Saturday, April 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

Inspired by the media-scape in J.G. Ballard’s 1969 novel, Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A, the show, “False Space and Time of the Apartment,” will exhibit forms that are interactive, spatially bold and ambiguous. Neither purely art nor purely architecture, the works fall somewhere in between.

Charissa Terranova, Centraltrak’s director and curator, called Ballard one of the greatest chroniclers of the urban imagination.

“Ballard gives voice to Centraltrak’s ambitious momentum and its investment in the vast and diverse urban culture of Dallas-Fort Worth,” said Terranova.

Nine artists and architects from the Europe and the U.S. will show their work in the inaugural exhibition.

More info here.