“Itinerant Belongings” at Slought

The Form Review is a simple attempt to increase dialogue within art journalism and highlight the subjectivity of a traditional exhibition review.  Artists/curators/responsible parties of an exhibition are invited to respond to five short prompts.  In turn, a representative of the St.Claire views the exhibition and independently responds to the same five prompts.  Both sets of “form answers” are published in tandem on the St.Claire website. To participate drop us a line at hark@the-st-claire.com

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(IMAGE: William Pope.L, How Much is that Nigger in the Window a.k.a. Tompkins Square Crawl, video still, 1991)

 

form_review_eye1 Responses by Charlotte Ickes and Iggy Cortez, Curators

 1. What is hidden in this exhibition?  What is in plain sight?

What is hidden are overt scenes of violence–ideological, affective, and physical. What is in plain sight are the moments just before and after.

 

2. Who would be this exhibition’s parents?  What might it’s children look like?

If William Pope.L and Krzysztof Wodiczko had a love child raised by Rosalyn Deutsche and Édouard Glissant with a lot of love from Fred Moten and Lauren Berlant…that would be the unusual family. Its unborn child would be a site-specific installation and performance that examine similar questions of (un)belonging.

 

3. Describe one moment in this exhibition.

You’re walking along Walnut near 40th Street at 3 AM in the morning from Fresh Grocer, and you hear sounds coming from the nighttime storefront projection of Slought. Then you see on the screen the artist William Pope.L on the ground crawling, enacting his groundbreaking performance, Tompkins Square Crawl (1991).

 

4. This exhibition answers/asks the following question:

How are senses of relation forged and maintained inside and outside (and on the margins) of legitimating political and social structures?

 

5. You should message this exhibition if…

you don’t mind getting intimate with strangers.

 

form_review_eye2Responses by Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Guest-editor, The S.Claire

1. What is hidden in this exhibition?  What is in plain sight?

Hidden in the exhibition is the sense of humor in some of the work.

 

2. Who would be this exhibition’s parents?  What might it’s children look like?

The parents of this exhibition would be Rashid Johnson and Rashida Jones. Any offspring of this union would be brash and self-made success stories.

 

3. Describe one moment in this exhibition.

Walking up to a empty spot lit shelf on a wall and then realizing its the Craigslist post for the Family Portraits by Jaime Diamond

 

4. This exhibition answers/asks the following question:

It asks, where are we from, and where are we now?

 

5.  You should message this exhibition if…

you’re searching for answers after watching Fox News.

 

 

Itinerant Belongings
Organized by Iggy Cortez and Charlotte Ickes
slought.org/resources/itinerant_belongings

ON VIEW:
November 1, 2014 – December 20, 2014.

Slought
4017 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
&
Addams Fine Arts Hall
University of Pennsylvania
200 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

slought.org/



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