Slowing Time
I'm excited to let you know that my new immersive installation, Slowing Time, will be part of the exhibition Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble, opening March 12 5-8 PM at EFA Project Space in New York.
I'm especially pleased that the installation includes photographic work by my sister, Anne Randolph.
And save the date: May 7 for Let's Face It I'm Held: On Water, a performance at EFA by David Richardson and I as dispersed holdings.
Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble
March 12 - May 14, 2022
Installations by:
Eating in Public/Gaye Chan + Nandita Sharma
Anna Rose Hopkins + Marina Zurkow
Del Hardin Hoyle
Sal Randolph with Anne Randolph
Curators: Dylan Gauthier, Radhika Subramaniam, Marina Zurkow
Exhibition design: Universal Solvent Studios
Exhibition fellow: Caroline Galderisi, Luc Kellum
EFA Project Space presents Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble, a group exhibition that explores 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.
But what is happening here, now, within and between us as humans, entangled and intertwined with other planetary beings, all clinging to our globe, forcefully demonstrates that some futures are already being denied, other futures are unwelcome and many are actively being created on the backs of others.
Through a series of arrangements and encounters, Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble explores the material and metaphorical ways in which connections are possible in a climate of uncertainty—neither wholly optimistic nor utterly despairing, neither propelled by urgency nor foreclosed, but held within their vibrating tensions.
SHNW invites the public 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. The artists in the show offer configurations for thought and action that slow us down, attune our ears to fluidity, share without conditions, and sit, live and love.
A catalog will be released at the close of the exhibition as part of the end_notes publication series.
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12, 5-8 pm
More Information
Slowing Time
Slowing Time is an immersive essay on temporalities and the resistance-politics of slowness. Visitors are offered a space to lie down and set themselves adrift in an experience of slow listening, watching, thinking, daydreaming — gazing upwards at a re-oriented view of neighboring buildings and reflected sky.
Can we match tempos with other forms of being? With cities, clouds, plants, nearby rivers and oceans, mountains, the turning earth? Can these other temporalities renew awareness of the value of our own being-time? If so, what new forms of thought, being, and politics can emerge from slowed experience?
Ambient sound, spoken words, video projection, cushions
With Anne Randolph, Slowing Time: Hudson 1/27/22 4:59-5:00 (reflecting the city), dye sublimation prints on chiffon