Spot 1: INTERPRETING SITE
Interpreting Site
Site is a compulsion of the mind at work in the body.
Tirzo Martha: Things in Perpetual Becoming
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
Africatown
Spot 2: CELEBRATING TK SMITH
What Cannot Be Held—Malcolm Peacock’s We Served … and they felt tiny bursts along the horizon
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
Toward a Monumental Black Body
The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?
Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold
TK Smith and Cosmo Whyte discuss colonial retentions, notions of home, and Whyte’s recent exhibition at MOCA GA.
Spot 3: REWORLDING
Earth Studies
Despite the diminutive size of our bodies, the Earth, in all its grand scale and complexity, is managing to grow inside us.
A Ceramic Materials Atlas
Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.
On Biodiversity—Timur Si-Qin and Haley Mellin in Conversation
I think that you and I both approach the natural world similarly with our work. In a meditative and devotional way, in which we try to look deeper and deeper into the visuality and details of nature.
Ecotone
In ecology, a place that comes into being only when two other places meet, is called the ecotone.
Spot 4: NOSTALGIA/HERITAGE
Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go
This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.
Kelly Taylor Mitchell: Masking Practice
Simone Leigh: Sovereignty
“The work is a gateway, one that bridges extracted projections of African aesthetic realities by refocusing upon the origins of Black exterior expression. Those spaces—just like bodies—hold stories, memories, and dreams. The transformation of this pavilion foreshadowed how this experience would find me in a house of discourses. But this time, there could be a more nuanced conversation about the interiority of Black female consciousness.”
Spot 5: BACK TO SCHOOL
Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands
Artists Books from The Atlanta School
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Chasing Things That Cannot Be Chased
Spot 6: GUEST EDITED BY EMILY WALTINGTON
“Golem Girl”: An Interview With Riva Lehrer
An interview with artist Riva Lehrer about her portraiture practice in which she represents queer and/or disabled bodies.
Andrea Crespo
Andrea Crespo’s ongoing series of drawings centers around the stereotyping of people who have been psychopathologized as potential school shooters.
Rethinking Sensory Dimensions
An interview with artist Wendy Jacob about how her investigation of tactility brought her to work with communities of disabled people.
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
Spot 7: Cross species communication
stones make birds make stones
Locus Hour
In Thill’s work, spirituality and hope coexist in tension with the banal materials of daily life, presenting an idea of transcendence that must pass through and engage with the grit of existence.
