The main project for my co-op at CampSITE Social Sculpture Park, wherein I curated, juried, and installed an exhibition of local artists. I also coordinated events throughout the exhibition time, including an artist panel, and spent most of my time interacting with both the artists and the viewers. The theme was liminal spaces and the absurd.
A liminal space is a sort of in-between area – a place that both is and isn’t; after one time but before the next -and there is a sort of kinship that arises from how we experience them. Something is very human about that uncanny feeling we get from these places that are familiar enough to be recognizable, yet different enough, fundamentally wrong enough, that it is also unsettling. They create the sense that you shouldn’t be there, that this space was not made for you or for anyone else, even though you can’t quite articulate why. This, of course, creates a mood that can go hand-in-hand with the absurd. A place that is incorrect, that is everything and nothing, is a place where anything can happen, which can be frightening, but also somehow comedic. Perhaps it’s best to just embrace the absurdity of our world, to not just find it and experience it but create it for ourselves. Perhaps that’s what we’ve been doing for quite some time.
Welcome to Uncanny Valley.
Artist Panel Card
Show Card (Front)
Show Card (Back)
Call to Artists
Balcony View 1
Works Pictured by: Emily Underwood and John Humphries
Balcony View 2 - Performance by Holly Price
Work Pictured by: Mandy Goodwin
Works Pictured by: Natalie Grubbs and Ben Brown
Work Pictured by: Holly Price
Theatre View
