Radio Imagination

Lauren Halsey (b. 1987) creates immersive, multisensory installations that she terms “fantasyscapes.” These built environments are envisioned as habitats for future communities, and they often incorporate the visual culture — signage, fashion, ephemera — of the artist’s South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.

and it was a natural extension of my dreaming is Halsey’s interpretation of a location Butler described in a notebook in the late 1970s: “For a story: Let it take place on an ice desert … a place that makes terrible demands. This one must be a world that changed in recent geological history.”