CHAOS, CAPTURED

The Orange County Museum of Art’s new mixed-media response to our trying times, “Disorderly Conduct,” doesn’t trade in mopery. Instead, the artists tackle issues such as terrorism and the environment with hackles raised, “in a poetic, absurdist, funny way,” curator Karen Moss says. To wit, Martin Kersel’s video work “Pink Constellation,” in which a teen’s bedroom takes a Keystone Kops approach to unpredictability. Ends May 25. www.ocma.net