I’ve Been Working on Myself Since Then, 2018, surgical tubing resistance bands, coax cable, zip ties, OPTP Resistance Band Wall Anchors by Bob and Brad: Space Saving Wall Mount Clips for Home Gym Workouts, Y2K bag, dimensions variable
Midwaste (excerpt), 2018, HD video, color, sound, 04:52
Circumambulation (group show)
Ada Pinkston, Danielle Rosen, Liz Roberts, Santina Amato
Curated by Ann Meisinger and Nathan Florsheim
December 7th - 25th, 2018
To circumambulate is to complete a circuit all the way around an object. In many devotional practices, the object circumambulated is an idol or otherwise sacred item. The lap or laps can represent the passage of time, a spiritual journey or a funerary or other ritual procession. In the same breath, this walk is a revolution with no beginning and no end and a linear evolution of an event. Each of the artists in Circumambulation investigates an aspect of time whether it is the collapsing of distant timelines into one moment through video, the fabrication of an object made from a daily performative interaction or a reach back into the past from the present.
The works in this show don’t just present a transformation as a frozen, crystallized moment in time but they interrogate the process of metamorphosis and that moment’s structure, functioning as performative documents. These artists connect viewers with the past, present, and future, inviting a consideration of how the passage of time shapes and reshapes all things.