Sal Randolph, Vine and Car in my Parking Lot - Hoosick Falls, September 23, 2021, digital photograph, 2021.
Please join us at EFA Project Space on Saturday, March 12, 2022 for the opening reception of Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble, curated by Dylan Gauthier, Radhika Subramaniam, and Marina Zurkow, with exhibition design by Universal Solvent Studios.
The exhibition features installations by Gaye Chan + Nandita Sharma, Anna Rose Hopkins + Marina Zurkow, Del Hardin Hoyle, and Sal Randolph, and during its run performances, talks, and interventions by Ron Broglio, Heather Davis, Matt Evans, Ellie Irons, Anne Randolph, David Richardson, Tanika I. Williams, Brett Gui Xin, and others.
The gallery will be open from 12 pm, with a durational performance of Acts of Service by Anna Rose Hopkins from 12 - 5 pm, an ongoing plant swap by Eating in Public/Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma, and a sound performance/activation by Del Hardin Hoyle beginning at 7 pm. Bring a plant to swap!
RSVP Encouraged, not required. Masks and proof of vaccination required for entry to EFA Center.
The opening will coincide with the reception for Dread In The Eyes, curated by Deric Carner, on EFA’s 3rd Floor, featuring work by EFA Member Artists Samira Abbassy, Allen T. Ball, Michael Eade, Sally Egbert, Jason File, Katya Grokhovsky, Edgar Jerins, Kosuke Kawahara, Greg Kwiatek, Dana Levy, Cheryl Molnar, Nazanin Noroozi, and Whitney Oldenburg.
About the exhibition
Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble is a group exhibition that invites the public to feel planetary relationalities at a time of planetary crisis. The vicious systems and willful actions that are responsible for today’s planetary catastrophe have spawned an attendant industry of planning—preparedness, scenario planning, emergency management—that directs itself to the future, to anticipation, to fear, to escape. Sprout invites your participation to inhabit ways of being that are soft, wild, caressing and off-kilter. We ask if and how we can prepare in the now—think with the emergent boldness of the sprout, with the casual yet crucial pivot of the hinge, with the sensual nonchalance of the nap—both as siesta and as the luxurious pile of a rug—and approach the world with a wobble—uncertain, intoxicated, unsteady and open.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland and gathering place for many Indigenous nations and beings. When the unceded earth breathes again, there will be Indigenous lives here, as there are now and have always been. It will still be Lenapehoking. We learn from the bedrock and commit to uplifting, honoring, and listening to those who are seen and unseen, present and future.
ACCESS INFO
EFA Project Space is located on the second floor of 323 West 39th Street. It is accessible via an elevator (whose door width is 32” and car width is 65”) or two flights of stairs. At the building’s ground-level front desk, you will be asked to sign in with your name but not to provide ID.
The exhibition is free. Chairs with backs are available to guests upon request by speaking to a gallery attendant. There are two non-gender-segregated bathrooms on the building’s third floor, accessible via the elevators, outside the Project Space. The bathrooms are cleaned twice daily. One bathroom is wide and long enough to accommodate a wheelchair; the other cannot. Neither bathroom has grab bars. Though we cannot guarantee a scent-free space, we ask that all guests, who are able, to attend the exhibition fragrance-free, out of consideration for guests with chemical sensitivities. Fragrance-free soap is available in the restrooms on the third floor.
For the health and safety of our staff and the general public, attendance at events requires advanced RSVP. All attendees must show proof of vaccination. Masks are obligatory for entry.