Accompaniment
November 6—December 19, 2015
Curated by Kari Cwynar and Kendra Sullivan
Shannon Ebner
Dylan Gauthier
Kara Hamilton and Angie Keefer
Will Holder
Dominika Ksel
Duane Linklater
Tanya Lukin Linklater with Laura Ortman
Babette Mangolte
Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and Mario Garcia Torres on Conlon Nancarrow
David Morris and Pedro Cid Proença with Stefan and Franciszka Themerson
David Reinfurt
Sarah Rose
Rosalie Schweiker and Rudy Loewe
Alex Waterman
Rebecca Wilcox
Accompaniment is a curatorial project exploring “accompaniment” as an evolving theory of practice, developed in response to our cultural and political milieu. The project asks: might an artistic practice characterized by distributed authorship be a catalyst for a shift in the ways we produce, exhibit, and write about art? This exhibition enacts accompaniment such that the physical, historical, and social supports within individual practices are made manifest, but also so that each participant and contribution inevitably accompanies and is accompanied in the present grouping. This model subverts the order of the soloist, laying bare a deeply stratified ground in which everything created is inscribed and contingent.
The exhibition acts as staging ground upon which accompaniment emerges as a usable model of practice. Support, understood in its widest brushstroke as the “second position,” is tested, fatigued, and reified; we try to broaden forms of abstract support that sustain the practice of the artist and the body of the artist, as well as wider culture economies. Accompaniment produces work in multiple disciplines, some audible, some legible, some visible, some holding the show together. Participating artists accompany each other, light, archives, unknown artists, texts, architecture, objects, gossip, and songs.
EVENTS
Opening reception with performances by Tanya Lukin Linklater and Laura Ortman, and Rebecca Wilcox
Friday, Nov 6, 6 - 8 PM
Performances continue with an opera, a film, and a radio play by: Alex Waterman, Shannon Ebner, and David Morris and Pedro Cid Proença
Saturday, Nov 7, 6 - 9 PM
Will Holder and Alex Waterman present public workshops of Dust (1998) from Yes, But Is It Edible?
Saturday, Dec 12 & Sunday, Dec 13, 12 - 6 PM
Will Holder and Alex Waterman host a reception and public reading of Dust (1998) from Yes, But Is It Edible?
Sunday, Dec 13, 6 - 8 PM
Duane Linklater, UMFA2003.10.19, 2015. Natural ABS 3D print from Rio Grande Pueblo Pot, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
MATERIALS
Exhibition Booklet with curatorial essay by Kari Cwynar and Kendra Sullivan
PRESS
This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Special thanks to The Ontario Arts Council for their support of Duane Linklater's project. Display structures were produced with the material and conceptual support of Tri-Lox.
