- Twang
- Crush
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Knock Knock
about introductions, jokes, and local activism. It is going door to door and meeting face to face. Whether addressing political canvassing in this election year or trick-or-treating, the theme questions: what does it mean to be neighborly in the South? What do we owe one another? Employing matter-of-fact revelations or grappling with complex truths, Knock Knock speaks to proximity and presence. It is relational, even familial, in application. It also includes actual entrances, artistic thresholds, as well as metaphorical doors opening—and sometimes—slamming shut. Knock Knock is art that addresses architecture, “hitting the pavement,” and cul-de-sacs. It is an opportunity offered and (maybe) revoked. Who's there?
2024 -
Current
explores the South’s metaphysical nature as a living archive, existing dually as a spatiotemporal metric: a means of fluid existence and a meteorological pursuit.
2023 -
Camouflage
address the ways in which someone or something is visually indistinguishable from its context, specifically speaking to the permeability of the Southern landscape and its inhabitants.
2023 -
Conspiracy
interrogates the experiences that construct our lives, systems of relation, and landscapes across the South.
2023 -
Artist Environments
indexes the rich tradition of large-scale world building by artists in the South as a means of exploring alternative modes living among the landscape and repurposing the refuse of industry.
2022 -
Nonhuman
engages theories of post-humanism, the agency of other species, and new perspectives that invite a reappraisal of how we value nonhuman life.
2022 -
Invasive Species
explores the organic and inorganic forces that infect our landscapes and obscure our understanding of ecosystems.
2022 -
Belief and Fiction
seeks to address questions of spiritual and religious faith, artistic world-building, cultural enclaves, and historical narratives.
2021 -
Word of Mouth
focused on speech, dialects, multilingualism, and oral traditions across the American South, a region distinguished by the amount of attention its residents receive for the ways in which they speak.
2021 -
Nodes and Networks
will investigate the ways physical and digital systems, cultural intersections, and interconnected webs of information provide alternative models for understanding the South’s present, history, and future.
2021 -
States of Leisure
explores fantasies of the Southern landscape as they relate to notions of leisure, recreation, and tourism.
2020 -
Waterways / Water Wars
examines water as a natural resource and cultural reference in the South, acknowledging the geological, historical, and political importance of waterways in the region.
2020 -
Exurbs and the Rural
investigates the cultural situation of artists and residents in the rural South, parsing the fluctuating boundaries between cities, exurbs, and the rural.
2020
- Twang
-
Knock Knock
about introductions, jokes, and local activism. It is going door to door and meeting face to face. Whether addressing political canvassing in this election year or trick-or-treating, the theme questions: what does it mean to be neighborly in the South? What do we owe one another? Employing matter-of-fact revelations or grappling with complex truths, Knock Knock speaks to proximity and presence. It is relational, even familial, in application. It also includes actual entrances, artistic thresholds, as well as metaphorical doors opening—and sometimes—slamming shut. Knock Knock is art that addresses architecture, “hitting the pavement,” and cul-de-sacs. It is an opportunity offered and (maybe) revoked. Who's there?
2024 -
Camouflage
address the ways in which someone or something is visually indistinguishable from its context, specifically speaking to the permeability of the Southern landscape and its inhabitants.
2023 -
Artist Environments
indexes the rich tradition of large-scale world building by artists in the South as a means of exploring alternative modes living among the landscape and repurposing the refuse of industry.
2022 -
Invasive Species
explores the organic and inorganic forces that infect our landscapes and obscure our understanding of ecosystems.
2022 -
Word of Mouth
focused on speech, dialects, multilingualism, and oral traditions across the American South, a region distinguished by the amount of attention its residents receive for the ways in which they speak.
2021 -
States of Leisure
explores fantasies of the Southern landscape as they relate to notions of leisure, recreation, and tourism.
2020 -
Exurbs and the Rural
investigates the cultural situation of artists and residents in the rural South, parsing the fluctuating boundaries between cities, exurbs, and the rural.
2020
- Crush
-
Current
explores the South’s metaphysical nature as a living archive, existing dually as a spatiotemporal metric: a means of fluid existence and a meteorological pursuit.
2023 -
Conspiracy
interrogates the experiences that construct our lives, systems of relation, and landscapes across the South.
2023 -
Nonhuman
engages theories of post-humanism, the agency of other species, and new perspectives that invite a reappraisal of how we value nonhuman life.
2022 -
Belief and Fiction
seeks to address questions of spiritual and religious faith, artistic world-building, cultural enclaves, and historical narratives.
2021 -
Nodes and Networks
will investigate the ways physical and digital systems, cultural intersections, and interconnected webs of information provide alternative models for understanding the South’s present, history, and future.
2021 -
Waterways / Water Wars
examines water as a natural resource and cultural reference in the South, acknowledging the geological, historical, and political importance of waterways in the region.
2020