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Bree Apperley

3/18/2023

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State(s) of Being  

The fact that women are still underrepresented in the art world of today is  such a disappointment. I wish I could say it is also a surprise. Much like the  civil rights movement of the 60s, after the height of the women’s movement  and the institutional respect and acceptance of feminist art during the  1970s, as a culture we had the hand-wiping attitude of a problem that had  been solved. But not so. As with the BLM movement, the COVID pandemic  revealed that not much had really changed within the gendered  expectations and experiences of our society. Although the workforce  included a greater number of women than in decades past, with most  working full-time, women were still, for the most part, responsible for  household and childcare duties. 

The pandemic removed the illusion of independent, self-sufficient, career driven womanhood by revealing the weight of all the myriad home-life  related chores that had been outsourced to other less-privileged women.  The same old sexist framework was still there all along, hidden beneath a  comfy padding of dollar bills. Outwardly, for a couple of decades, it truly  looked as though things had changed. A career and child both! A family and  a fulfilling job! We can have it all. Look how far we have come. The  unfortunate truth was that the mirage of freedom and equality was only  available because of paid additional support from other women. 

It is this hidden skeleton of disparity that the art world too, is built upon. The  social and political framework of capitalism favours a certain type of worker.  A hustler, a grinder, someone who is willing to go big or go home. The  system is built for making money, and the faster the better. Scale up. In  fact, things truly have been scaling up, even material things like houses,  cars, grocery stores, family vacations, post-secondary education. This is  where unregulated capitalism brings us, and it is unsustainable. 

What does this have to do with the art world? Well, like any other industry,  art is attached to a market, and as we know, the free market  prioritizes economic growth above all else. An artist who is also a mother is  in most cases working the ‘second shift’. That is, as detailed above, they  are most likely to be the ones in charge of the domestic sphere, including  the children. This reality does not jive well with a bombastic studio practice  built around a bohemian, foot-loose lifestyle, which is the antiquated myth  that still persists around the creation of artwork.

​Who are the ones who can more readily embody this ideal? Young men, or older men who have  remained in this role throughout their careers. There are exceptions to this  of course, but I am generalizing to make a point. It is a matter of time and focus, and any artist who is also a mother is in  short supply of these two essential ingredients. Who are the artists making  it to all the evening gallery openings and artist talks? The meeting and  greeting? Who are the artists with studio spaces separate from their homes  and stuffed full of work? Who are the artists with mentors? Someone who  looks like them? Where is the shop talk taking place? The evolving artistic  dialogue is not happening at the family dinner table or in bed before  storytime. Or with the other parents at school drop-off and pick-up. How  can you be in two places at once? It is hard to contort oneself to fit a mold  that is not designed for you. It takes extraordinary measures and a will of  steel to climb a man-made mountain. Mercifully, one of the defining  characteristics of an artist is someone who finds a way to be truly  themselves, bending the world to their inner compass, letting the world in  on how they see things, how things feel in their skin. This caveat to the  chimerical role in society of the capital ‘A’ artist may be the saving grace of  the profession.  

Thank goodness (goddess?) for the progressive thinking of those mothers  and artists who are able to find a way to create and be visible in the art  scene by bending the social strictures, shattering outdated myths, finding  loopholes and forging new paths. It takes exceptional strength of  determination and motivation to keep in the game and succeed. The  women chosen for the exhibition The State(s) of Being at the Lake Country  Art Gallery - Janine Hall, Joice M. Hall, Lindsay Lorraine, Mary Smith  McCulloch, and Rhonda Neufeld - have proven themselves to be artists  and mothers who are supernaturally spirited. They have decided to want  something for themselves and they are not afraid to take it. Culture and  society benefit from these women. We need their voices and their vision.  They are wanted and needed, not only by their children and family but by  their art community at large, and the world beyond. 

Bree Apperley is a Canadian mother, artist, designer and writer based in Syilx territory (Okanagan, B.C.). She holds degrees in both Fine Art and Design Art, from the Alberta College of Art + Design and Concordia University respectively. For more information about the author visit https://breeapperley.com/ and on instagram @fwuitbowl.

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School students respond to the Artworks in Mother(load)

3/17/2023

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Grade 6-7-8 Middle School students visited the exhibition Mother(load) this week - and this is what they had to say about the artworks that they enjoyed or connected to most ...

All of the artworks...
... have their own message behind them. They [artists] didn't stop doing what they love. The artwork speaks to you.
-grade 8


the Archaeology of Motherhood, mixed media by Devon L. Muhlert.
... is my favourite piece because it is made of pins and quilt pieces, paper, and other mixed media. It is very interesting to look at and I think it is my favourite piece in this art gallery. It makes me feel happy to look at it.          -age 13 

Cradling Hope, mixed media on canvas by Jacqueline Rieger .    
... is my fav art piece. I like that one because the colours are really cool and it's a really pretty painting, and I like how it pops out at you.
-grade 7  

Cradling Hope, mixed media on canvas by Jacqueline Rieger. 
- I really like it because it looks like a lady at night Standing in front of the moon and because there's lots of colour it makes me feel happy.
-grade 6

Cradling Hope, mixed media on canvas by Jacqueline Rieger. 
- Interesting colours makes me feel like I'm in another world. Sparks curiosity. I really liked it.
-grade 6

Cradling Hope, mixed media on canvas by Jacqueline Rieger .
- It’s just vibrant                                                                                                              
-grade 7

Do Your Dream, mixed media by Lynette Stebner.
- I really like this art piece. Feels similar to my life; all the things I have to do. Makes me happy!
-grade 6 

Embrace the Thunder, mixed media by Jill Meredith. 
- I was drawn to the title - since our move from Ontario I feel we've been forced to embrace the noise and vibration of a new home / city / province. I like the word EMBRACE - it gives me permission to feel all the feels. 
-grade unknown


Embrace the Thunder, mixed media by Jill Meredith.  
- I enjoyed how the colours were mixed. The colour choices have a feeling of Happiness and creativity.                           
​-grade 6

Embrace the Thunder, mixed media by Jill Meredith.    
- I like because it looks really beautiful and the colors really pop out
-grade 6

Eve’s Garden, fabric/acrylic oil by Karen Stewart.
... lots to look at and you could never get bored
-grade 6

Family, oil by Denise Patrick.
- I liked this piece of art because I really liked all of the colours that the artist chose and I wonder what the artist was thinking/feeling when they made it.
-grade 7 

Family, acrylic by Denise Patrick.
- Lots of Colors. The planets reminded me of a family.
-grade 6

Family, acrylic by Denise Patrick.
- I felt a Strong Connection with this Art because of the hue, value and the way it looks.. -I really enjoyed the Art. The Art made me feel happy and understood.
-grade: 7

is there TIME for both motherhood and art?, acrylic, pen + ink on textured wood panel by Pamela Cinnamon.
- All the different times using different symbols for showing how the time fits eg. butterfly, flowers, clocks.
-grade unknown 

Mixed and Unmatched, mixed media by Sara Wiens.
…I also thought that the one with the laundry was cool too. 
-grade 8

Mom, oil painting by Denise Patrick.
- The beauty of this piece is indescribable, so natural, so real. Real as you could see the mother-in-law not in the painting but just in reality moving, breathing, laughing, smiling. You don't just see the painting, you see her. You see the flowers, You see life, reality, beauty.
-grade 7

Mother(load), drawings by Roberta Sutherland.
- I love how it just explains the beauty of pregnancy and fertility and how mothers are willing to give up their bodies and even their life for this unique and amazing experiment. It represents "bounce back" culture in a way and how all our bodies are different after childbirth whether they bounce back or not and it should not be expected of us. I think that because there's Stretch marks it looks like, around her body from pregnancy and you cannot get rid of those and it's natural but people still get ridiculed for it.
-grade 7

Mother, Matrix, Maatrikaa, acrylic, fabric + glass on hardboard by Rena Warren + Larkin Dunn Warren.
- The Flower to me was special because it reminded me of my grandma who loved flowers and when her mom passed away her last word was please take care of my flower garden and that is what my grandmother did. All the flowers are still there to this day. The little mirror reminded me of how a little sentence means big work because the flower [form] was smaller to bigger.                                                                             
-grade 6

Mother, Matrix, Maatrikaa, acrylic, fabric + glass on hardboard by Rena Warren + Larkin Dunn Warren.
... another piece that I liked was the big flower because it was pretty, I liked all the detail on it and the mirror in the middle was cool.
-grade 8

Mother Urge, acrylic, ink, collage by Tess Letailleur.
- I liked the bird's nest with the feather because it was pretty and creative. I really liked how the string was placed and how detailed it was. This piece of art was really pretty.
-grade 8 

My Mother and I, fibre art/embroidery by Alice Pallett.
... is my favourite piece. This is my favourite because my great grandma makes stuff like this.
-grade

My Mother and I, fibre art/embroidery by Alice Pallett.
I don't really know why but it was really pretty and you could tell how much time it took to make.
-grade 7

Re Surfacing, acrylic + mixed medium by Kate Brown.
Brush stocks showing movement, showing no matter how you can be tangled you can get up.
-grade unknown 

Through Rose - Coloured Glasses, acrylic on canvas  by Lisa Figueroa.
- I love all the colours and how clean it was, it really stood out from the other art
-grade 7
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Principles of Enclosure

12/13/2022

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the principles of object obsession and our undoing

Hyperobject in A Quake in Beingis "things that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans." The relativity of 'our' existence—the 'human' existence—rests upon our innate compulsion to build tools to respond to our ever-changing environments. This is the human condition1. Timothy Morton continues to describe this object-making response through the term hyperobject as "long-lasting product['s] of direct human manufactur[ing]. […] a sum of all the whirring machinery of capitalism." So how do we curate our spaces with equipment, gear, goods, and junk? Are these relics of innovation everlasting or short-lived? Do these mass-produced materials contribute to the earth’s ecology positively? Can there be ways we can reassess our relationship with these materials’adaptability?

Principles of Enclosure looks to address these questions under the theme “functional obsolescence.” Artists Gambletron, Johnny Forever and zevtiefenback specifically engage with various objects,“usefulness” or “desirability” based on their outdated design feature that is difficult to alter.In this way, you get an overall sense that the artists are critiquing capitalist consumption by incorporating their relationships to production and distribution to its impossibility of being equitably sustainable. By engaging with object-making in the industrial realm, they reveal those objects' precarity.

Objects such as:

 plastic columns: a contention to the contemporary depiction from classic historical architecture. Alabaster in       material and embellished by a Corinthian top are redefined by a mass-produced plastic form that becomes             figurative once a latex sheet is draped on top.

        antennas are dismembered from their radio bodies while their bellies are dissected and reconnected to other           parts to form a new way of relevance.

               noise: the voices of these objects speak through static utterances. A sort of nostalgic way of listening                          where one used to scan radio waves for other signs of life.

                     discarded wood is repurposed in a self-reflexive way to stimulate our relationship with trees and                                   extractive pursuits with Land.

                           Photographic documents of property ownership become memories of bygone eras where security                                  was somewhat obtainable yet unsustainable.

To come across these objects, equipment, gear, goods, and junk within a gallery space forces the viewer to reintroduce themselves. The artwork’s technology or representation can be nostalgic for some or maybe totally unfamiliar. A pendulum swing between relativity to irrelevance. It is arguable to say that Principles of Enclosure is time-based and ephemeral. It is also arguablethat these works assert life on their own—beyond a human focus perspective that usually projects object relevance based on sharing space. However, these objects, equipment, gear, goods, and junk continue to exist when we are gone. When ‘we’ are gone forever, these works will remain here. Some can erode. Some will not.

Michaela Bridgemohan Guest Writer

1 This is in reference to the human history of constructing objects and tools to our social spaces. However, I want to acknowledge that other animals such as crows, ravens, and other birds also make tools as to strategize hunting and foraging. .
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The Relativity of Time and Space

4/23/2022

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Catalogue essay by Carin Covin

The Lake Country Art Gallery is presenting “The Relativity of Time and Space”, an exhibition pairing two painters, Diane Feught and Lindsay Kirker, by the gallery’s curator Wanda Lock. 

Painting is a two dimensional visual language, and as a means of art production has had a long, contested and interesting history.  Beginning in the Lascaux Caves, the discourse has travelled through various patronages; of the Church, of the State, of the wealthy, through the Patriarchy, and on through to a place of constant critique within modernism, feminism, humanism, and structuralism.   Within these and other “isms”, many scholars continue to add to this location – a place of thinking and making a mark upon a surface.  There are different types of surfaces to paint on, and in this exhibition, the artists have chosen rag paper and canvas.

Diane Feught is a poet and a painter.  In her published work, “The Pillow Book of Monsters – Mechanics of the Sublime” we, the viewers and the readers, have access to her written poems to help us gain entry into the ideas she has embedded in her painted works.  Interestingly, in this exhibition we only have her titles to point us in a direction of meaning.

There is a measure of intimacy in the scale and the choice of using paper in the works; issues that can be placed within early feminism.  However, I would suggest that this intimacy is extremely complicated; veiled.  These painted collages of ideas are confounding in their compositional groupings, challenging the viewer to interpret Feught’s trifurcation of ideas, and often, when we reassemble these ideas, we realize that Feught has suggested the unexpected to us. 

Conceptualism has taught us that the idea is as important, if not more important than the finished work.  And semiotics has taught us that we, as individuals, have an innate ability to read images, or to decode a meaning or meanings that is inserted within a complicated image. However, even with these tools, I, as a viewer, am left with emotional responses to these works, as opposed to an intellectual understanding or a comfortable resolve.  Which means I have more to contemplate.

When studying these works, I was never far from my dictionary, as I needed to be sure of my understanding of the titles; some are based in the biblical, some are based in the political, some based in science, and then there are some titles that are simply placed within the human heart.  Many of the works are bracketed by areas of pattern, specifically mapped out, with an intentional palette, colours chosen to soothe and colours chosen to visually excite. As a viewer, I am left with the impression that Diane Feught is interested in the logistics of a paradox, both intellectual and visual, and in her painted and written investigations, she has presented an arena of glorious ambiguity.  And maybe that is what a lifetime is all about.

Lindsay Kirker has challenged herself with a considerable task.  Simply put, Kirker is rethinking of what it is to be a human in our natural environment.  Her visual thesis is an interesting intertwining of a collective of disciplines.  I immediately think of post humanism and post feminism; entry points for me into her reasoning and approach to her visual work. By this I mean that I can understand that we, as people, are just one of many intelligent living organism on the earth, and we, as women, have graduated to encompassing all the many differences within the lens of an individual. However, Kirker’s research is polyphonic in nature: her MFA Thesis is titled “Creating Structures: The Complexity of Making, Dwelling and Being” is evidence of her intellectual and personal journeys. 

Kirker has travelled to regional and international destinations in the world to aide in her quest for understanding what it is to be human in our natural environment.  She creates painted dreamscapes that she suggests is couched in the politics of the everyday, a philosophical trope of early feminism. Within this framework, Kirker has placed herself amongst scientists, environmentalists, and in doing so, has moved through many conversations of traditional and untraditional ways of knowing.  She has come to understand that the natural environment, which has been here for known time, carries memory. Within this memory, are sites of the sacred, which often go unnoticed by our societal push for economic development. A family member suggested to Kirker that her questions were not based in physics anymore, or even science, but have moved into a place of spirituality.  A location within the human heart.

Her methodology of painting begins in a vortex of chaos.  She has stated that she begins in an activity of throwing many things at the raw canvas – often unstapled to any support, however for this exhibition the canvas was traditionally stretched.  Her substrate is not archival in nature as she combines gesso and house paint and sections of untreated canvas together as she builds towards an image.  The house paint, with its higher water content, will, over time, be unable to hold its integrity, allowing for cracking and flaking.  For me, this is an interesting metaphor for the many disrupted foundations that are visible in her bodies of work. These foundations are based in traditional Western perspective, something that Kirker understands as a reproduction of truth, not necessarily a truth in itself.  This can also reflect the rapid expansion that Kirker witnesses, as we continue to build over nature in an effort to frame the social environments of our city spaces.

Kirker’s choice of scale provides a visual impact, a choice that will catch our attention, and then invites us to engage with the multiple perspectives that she presents to us. She reminds us to question how we have arrived here, now; and to remember that our past and future on the earth are connected.

I am interested in how this exhibition, “The Relativity of Time and Space”, juxtaposes ideas focused on our inner landscape alongside ideas that reflect a gaze outward to the natural world.  These ideas are timely in nature and acknowledge the complexity of this curious moment in time.

Obviously, there is much more that could be said about the works of these two artists.  And it is also understood that Diane Feught and Lindsay Kirker are in an active and ongoing relationship with their ideas; a continuing that builds upon their responses to the world around them.

Carin Covin

Exhibition, The Relativity of Time and Space features artwork by Diane Feught and Lindsay Kirker, curated by Wanda Lock and available to see at the Lake Country Art Gallery until May 28th, 2022

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Zoom Artist Panel Talk : Collective Enquires - recording

12/13/2021

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Recording of a virtual talk with Annie Briard, Dr. prOphecy sun, Leah Weinstein, Melany Nugent-Nobel, and Tara Nicholson, hosted by Micheala Bridgmahon and LCAG
 
Guest artists examine their summer micro-residency held at Lake Country Art Gallery + Arthouse and the Rotary Centre for the Arts! Conversations will explore artistic practice within the landscape, mutual learning, creative agency, and fostering meaningful artist relationships. Co-facilitators Leah Weinstein, Annie Briard, and Melany Nugent-Nobel engaged with participating artists Dr. prOphecy sun, Andreas Rutkauska, Tara Nicholson and Scott Massey. 
 
We thank Annie, Leah, Melany, and Tara for providing an opportunity to share the projects that arose through this meeting and speaking to the intersections of non-hierarchal collaboration, climate change, and interdisciplinary practice. 
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Sea of Love Essay

11/10/2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled us to isolate in ways most have never before experienced. Not only have we
avoided interactions with strangers, but for extended periods of time, we avoided interactions with friends and family. While this isolation limited our geographic perspectives, halting travel and focusing our attentions on immediate regional challenges, the work of artists Shannon Lester and Endrené Shepherd, in contrast, turned outward to the world beyond their reach, and inward to a shared collective unconscious.

In merging literal and fantastical elements, Sea of Love invites us into a relationship with the land and its creatures that is both psychic and material. These works assert that a landscape is not simply a location on Earth, but a place in our imagination.

Shannon Lester is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on painting and drag performance. In Sea of Love, his work explores queer embodiment and a queer ecology that imagines a hopeful future of community and care. This optimism is embodied in the sensual imagery of Lester’s work. In “Two Spirit Love,” male-bodied figures embrace; in “Paradis,” an amphibious human approaches a sea star with gentle curiosity; in “Life Will Find a Way,” a kneeling woman lovingly holds a fish in her palms.

While Shannon Lester offers a broad view of a complex ecology, both literal and fantastical, Endrené Shepherd
imagines the intimate space within the palms—small human figures recline inside a jellyfish or a bottle lost at sea and come eye-to-eye with a curious fish. Shepherd works primarily in acrylic, but she first began painting when her grandfather introduced her to watercolour. The influence of this medium, with its inherent sense of movement and unpredictability, is evident in the gestural nature of Shepherd’s subjects: in one painting, a seal somersaults in the canopy of a kelp forest, and in another, a dolphin, dappled by light, soars toward an unseen surface. Quiet landscapes move the eye skyward to similarly ephemeral subjects, such as when a coral reef dissolves into an abstraction of sun and water or pinking clouds float, for now, above a low sun. In this way, the paintings ask us to be present in these moments, which are indeed fleeting.

This temporality is evoked in many of Lester’s works, too. The wreckage of human ambition sits unassuming in the background, like a ghost or a memory—a barnacled skiff, forgotten gateways, skeletons, overgrown dwellings. While these images evoke an end of civilization, they contrast ironically with the profusion of underwater life, implying instead an optimistic future, and that, despite the sad forecasts, life indeed will find a way.

But what future is imagined here for humankind?

The literature of natural science has historically marginalized queer/trans bodies, and the supposed “unnaturalness” of queer sexuality and gender has been used to justify the persecution of LGBTQ2 individuals. In this way, queerness is often marginalized in the context of representations of nature. In Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination, Nicole Seymour explains how this has resulted in, at its most extreme, a perception of “Nature” (rather than the “process of naturalization”) as a threat to queer integrity. Lester responds by centering not only queer sexuality in his depictions of Nature, but a queer fluidity in our material and psychic experiences of place. By rendering the sensual body as a fusion of both imagined/fantastical and material ways of being, Lester asserts a queerness unshackled by historical notions of naturalness. And so, fantastical human forms—mermen, sea witch, fairies—swim joyfully. They look boldly toward the viewer or recline sensually in a reef; the bodies most alive in this world are those of our imaginations. In this way, the paintings ask us to be more, to imagine more in our relationship with the world and each other.

Andrea Routley, 
Guest Writer

About the Artists
Shannon Lester is a visual artist and teacher based in the Okanagan since 1999. He works primarily in acrylic on
canvas and has explored topics related to gender identity and sexuality in the past. His current work has moved
more into the realms of fantasy, mysticism, surrealism and nature spirituality with a strong focus on underwater/
ocean art. Lester grew up in Newfoundland and spent six years living and teaching in Osaka, Japan where he
started the drag-based performance art collective Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2009. He is also a local drag personality
known as Sasha Zamolodchikova in Kelowna and entertains regularly at different venues in BC and beyond.

Endrené Shepherd, born in Vancouver and raised in the rural setting of Kaleden, BC, Endrené displayed an aptitude for art-making from an early age. She learned how to handle watercolours from her grandfather, and has made art the focal point of her life for as long as she has existed. She graduated from the Capilano College Film Studies program in 1999, and went on to get a BFA degree from UBCO in 2004. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions locally and internationally.

About the Writer
Andrea Routley is an LGBTQ2 community and arts organizer. She is the founding editor of Plenitude, Canada’s
queer literary magazine, and currently provides the logistical support for Black Liquorice Studio, an emerging
Okanagan-based BIPOC arts collective. As an MFA candidate at UBC-Okanagan, she is developing her third book
of fiction.
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Poems & Thoughts

5/15/2021

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​Many Artists in the Voice & Land Exhibition provided words or poems with their work, here is a selection of these in a downloadable PDF.
Poems & Words
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Equipment Space

4/1/2021

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Catalogue Essay by Holly Ward

​
As with all of todays' living creatures, Mat Glenn and Lucas Glenn’s lived experiences simultaneously straddle the seemingly incompatible spheres of the physical and the virtual, the natural and technological, the ‘real’ and the simulated.
 
As contemporary subjects, our corporeal existence anachronistically bounds us to our physical environments, however mediated this experience and this environment might be. Performing wage-labour, crossing geographical terrain via combustion engines, consuming genetically modified plants and animals; daily interactions and activities are mediated by human systems that have completely transformed direct engagements with the physical, or ‘real’ world. And yet we rely on our bodies and on these natural systems entirely. While technocrats like Elon Musk may want us to believe otherwise, there is no viable life on Mars. We have only the real world.
 
But what is the ‘real’ world? When the distinctions between innate and artificial intelligence are increasingly difficult to discern, when ecosystems self-regulate in response to human technologies, when the rate of change for both ‘natural’ and virtual systems seems to be increasingly immeasurable, any attempt to distinguish between the ‘authentic’ and the constructed, the ‘natural’ and the unnatural, merely reflects an arcane or nostalgic world-view. The simultaneity of mass extinctions and Quantum computing seems to indicate that what exists is a hybrid, increasingly complex system currently in a state of accelerated change. Just as certain physical phenomena cannot be ascertained by human consciousness, these rates of systemic change have seemingly accelerated beyond that to which Human cultures can (or are willing to) adapt. In other words, today’s ‘real world’ is, in fact, a ‘wicked problem’1.
 
In Equipment Space, Mat Glenn and Lucas Glenn’s creative outputs recognize this wicked problem through a series of polymorphous strategies that articulate their perceived location in this contemporary context. Sculptural assemblages merging the human and non-human, animal and vegetable, digital and analogue, explore themes central to their work such as precarious labor, ecosystems, technological interfaces and hybridity.
 
Equipment Space locates our (both human and non-human) collective immersion in this hyperspace between the real and the virtual. Sculptural assemblages featuring humanoid figures, fossil-fuel powered vehicles, live plants and computer-generated fantasy worlds address the circular logics of the neoliberal technosphere (wherein ‘limitless growth’ of resource extraction and alienated labor confront the material limits of bodies and environments). Equipment Space asks us to consider the physical, material and conceptual boundaries of our worlds, the limits of our experiences, and the possibilities of our collective future.
 
 
Notes:
  1. The term wicked problem refers to:
 
…a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil. Another definition is "a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point". Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem, last accessed Mar 7, 2021
 
 


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MADE BY HAND

2/12/2021

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Learning Connections
Download our Learning connections exhibition guide for Made By Hand. This 12 page PDF has suggestions for learning opportunities. connected to the exhibition. Want more information or ideas on how to explore Artist vs. Artisan? Contact Pippa & Alison at the ArtHouse 

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Me Looking at You Looking at Me

9/25/2020

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Poem by Cherie Hanson

Are You Seeing What I Am

The 50-year-old in California
wants to do some kind of online kink.
I cannot be shocked
because I laugh too hard.

What do I do? I am curious but don't ask.
Punch my own face with my fist
while you watch?

The dating coach I paid for
told me to put up pictures
full body view
wearing a red dress
and others with activities I love.

So holding a book in front of me
with only the red hair tangled
beyond the cover is perfect.

I state in fifteen ways to Sunday
I am a student of Buddhism
eschewing drink and drugs and hunting. killing
fish
and board games.
I state in fifteen ways to Sunday
I seek a literate man a man
in love with thought,
his mind curious
like a hound pushing through obscuring tall
grasses
following a scent.

And always I get
"You are hot."
This is not a conversation opener, I think.
My possible responses lead nowhere.
"Yes baby, you bet your anonymous ass,"
or, "Oh I am so grateful for your refined
attention."

The carefully crafted and edited profile
has too much information
most of it intended to deflect, defend, disarm.

Inevitably the first message that arrives
is "Tell me about yourself."

I answer, "It is all in my profile."
"Oh, " the ninety some men reply,
" I didn't read it"

​Cherie Hanson Blog

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