Escape your winter doldrums and travel the world! Proteus Gowanus invites you to an afternoon of travel-related performances by artists participating in our yearlong Interdisciplinary Travel Exhibit, Saturday, January 28, 12:00 – 6:00.

Ernst Benkert will stamp and hand out travel tickets from his installation, The Ernst Benkert Travel Desk; have your photograph taken by Matt Freedman, in his recreation of The Worst Airplane Ever Invented, the Lockhead XFV-1, as seen in Cabinet Magazine issue #11; travel through molecular space with Spencer Finch, as you view his light installation based on the molecular structure of the color black; Nina Katchadourian will present a multi-media performance about cultural artifacts that were sent into space; Charles Goldman, will perform a live version of American Poem, consisting of all of the place names read at random from a standard AAA road map of the U.S.A. adapted from his 2004 sound recording of the same title; Sasha Chavchavadze, will take you on a historical journey through her one-room Cold War museum, The Museum of Matches, an ongoing project at Proteus Gowanus; travel to Cambodia and Laos with Lance Rutledge, as you hear his stories and see his artifacts from his frequent travels to Southeast Asia