Posts Tagged ‘curation’

Curator’s Incubator : co-curator for an exhibition titled: anti-matter: recontextualizing the material, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD

The six artists included in anti-matter: recontextualizing the material all use materials in an individualistic way that emphasizes process, instability and familiarity. The incorporation of high and low materials by artists represents a shift in attitudes towards the conventional that is culturally significant and personal at the same time. The work of Suzanna Fields, Helen Frederick, Alberto Gaitán, Morgan Kennedy, Susan Noyes and Jennie Thwing are representative of how artists are searching for new interpretations and meanings from common materials. Through recombinant technology, whether digitally based or not, these artists reflect a yearning for familiar ground in a changing landscape.

Essay for the catalogue, co-authored by Susan Serafin and Bryan Leister

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Published on September 30th, 2007 in Juried Honors and Awards, collaboration, documentation, special projects and tagged with , , , , • No Comments »

exhibitionSpace : a thesis exhibition about the gallery itself


Video Documentation

Abstract

Exhibit: 23.875000: 57.630033

When a person enters a museum they are separating themselves from the larger society to join a smaller group of individuals seeking an aesthetic experience within the architecture of the museum. After receiving the exhibit, they leave the museum as part of a new sub-community- those who have shared the same experience. The museum itself becomes a “liminal” space, or place of transition, where people pass intellectually and spiritually from one community to another.(Turner 1961) Unlike other ritual spaces there are no signposts negotiating who belongs to this community or not, it’s largely an internalized membership. A church, for example, has members, you are either a member or not. A store or brand allows you to purchase membership into a cultural communitas, you either have money or you do not. The museum is seen as a ritual as Carol Duncan wrote:
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Published on October 1st, 2006 in documentation, interactive and tagged with , , , • No Comments »