Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 as a frightening vision of a consumerist future; thirty years later he concluded that the world was approximating Brave New World much faster than he anticipated. In his satirical and sinister novel, warfare and poverty have been eliminated, but also family, culture, art, literature, science, religion, and philosophy. In their place, Soma, a powerful drug provided by the “World State,” is taken to escape reality through hallucinatory fantasies. Decades later, in the context of a new century, Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond, two assistant curators at the Walker Art Center, titled their group exhibition after Huxley’s novel. As they mention in their “editor’s note” to the accompanying catalogue, the title’s plural version of “worlds” is meant “as an antidote to that terrifying vision of singularity” (25). During various trips taken over the course of eighteen months, they gathered some seventy works by twenty-four artists from seventeen countries, including Chile, China, Brazil, Argentina, Romania, and France. With over two hundred minutes of sound and imagery, video and film appear to be the visual language of choice. A close second is large-format photographs, as well as mixed media installations consisting of audio equipment, consumer...