EXHIBITION
Gestures of Resistance
Co-curated by Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton
January 26 - June 26, 2010
Free Museum members; $3 general
public
The exhibition Gestures of Resistance brings to Museum of Contemporary Craft a focus
on contemporary craft actions: work that deploys craft to agitate for change through
direct political statements, public interventions, or dialogical, community-specific
projects. Designed to unfold over its tenure at the Museum, with eight artists slated
to take up residency in the galleries and in Portland, Gestures of Resistance is
planned as a dynamic, collective studio, with each artist remaking the space to
suit their own purposes and the Museum functioning as a work space, performance
venue and town square.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Craft Conversation: Gestures of Resistance
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary
Craft
Free
and open to the public; please enter through 720 N.W.
Davis St.
Join
co-curators Judith Leemann (Faculty member, Massachusetts College of Art and
Design) and Shannon Stratton (Director, threewalls, Chicago) for an open
discussion about the thinking behind this practice-driven exhibition. Dialogue
will address how the exhibition
relates to contemporary art practices, craft as an action and agent for change,
and the connections to and differences from social practice.
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Gestures of Resistance Visiting Artists:
Sara Black and John Preus (January 26 - February 6) begin the exhibition through
a live build out of the museum, creating a workshop space from inherited materials
that acts simultaneously as platform, town square and sculpture. This space becomes
the staging area for all subsequent resident artists, who will transform and manipulate
the space through their performances and objects.
Anthea Black (February 19 - March 10) is a Canadian printmaker known for her subversive
postering campaigns who will recruit queer youth to deploy her two-sided poster
prints across Portland.
Carole Lung, AKA Frau Fiber (March 18 - 27), an itinerant textile worker, will address
herself to the specifics of Portland's garment culture - "hacking" a Columbia Sportswear
design for rain gear and sewing five sets of the garment using a bicycle-powered
sewing machine.
Mung Lar Lam (April 1 - 3) will perform Ironings, a meditation on labor, gender
and class in which the task of ironing becomes the means of mark-making, with the
unfolded cloth acting as a mosaic fanning across the gallery walls.
Cat Mazza (May 18 - 22), whose Nike Blanket Petition earned her acclaim in both
the craft and anti-sweatshop movements, will set up a process by which cast-off
materials used to fabricate Michelle Obama's favorite popular clothing brands are
repurposed into a new sculpture on site.
Ehren Tool (June 1 - 12), a veteran of the First Gulf War and a potter, will exhaust
a supply of porcelain over the course of a durational performance by throwing cups.
These cups will then act as building blocks to construct and then deconstruct divisions
within the Museum, and ultimately will be given away to visitors.
Theaster Gates (June 18 - 19) will whitewash everything that has come before in
delicate porcelain slip and conclude the exhibition with a public performance in
the Museum space.
A limited edition catalog will be available at the close of the exhibition, with
an introduction by MoCC curator Namita Gupta Wiggers and an essay by exhibition
co-curators Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton.
SAVE THE DATE
CraftPerspectives
Lecture: Hannah B. Higgins
Thursday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.
Free and open to the
public
Although commonly
associated with political and cultural activism in the 1960s, Fluxus struggled
against narrow definitions of art and performance. Hannah
Higgins, the
daughter of the Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins and noted
author of Fluxus Experience, will lecture on this important
movement to provide an additional context for the practices engaged in
Gestures of Resistance.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
ARE SUPPORTED BY:
Maribeth Collins; Truman and Kristin Collins; The Collins Foundation;
John Gray Charitable Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation; Regional
Arts & Culture Council; Howard & Manya Shapiro Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation; Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE
Foundation; Al Solheim; The Standard; Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation;
Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust
With Special Thanks to: Gerding Edlen Development, The Heathman Hotel, The Nines
Hotel
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Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art
is supported in part by:
PNCA + FIVE
Ford Institute for Visual Education
Paul G.
Allen Family Foundation; Maribeth Collins; Truman and Kristin Collins; The
Collins Foundation; Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation; John Gray Charitable
Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation; James F. and Marion L.
Miller Foundation; Miller Charitable Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation;
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust; The Oregon Community Foundation; Howard
& Manya Shapiro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation; Al Solheim; Mary Hoyt Stevenson
Foundation; Rose E.
Tucker Charitable Foundation
With
Special Thanks To: Gerding Edlen Development; The Heathman Hotel; The Nines Hotel
IMAGE CREDITS:
Carole Frances Lung a.k.a. Frau Fiber, ReDressing NOLA, 2007; performance, New Orleans
- 8th Ward; Photo courtesy the artist. Lung will be in residence as part ofGestures
of Resistance March 18-27, 2010.
Sara Black and John Preus as Material Exchange, I'd rather be Fishin', 2008; Installation
view, DeVos Museum,
Northern Michigan University; Black and Preus will be in residence as part ofGestures
of Resistance January 26-February 6, 2010.
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