On Display What's A Public For?
The practice of making, when characterized by iterative thinking and experimentation, creates specific types of embodied knowledge. These periods of intense growth are amplified by increased pressure and focus, and are often followed by instability – a tentative footing – and a necessary awkwardness that accompanies the pursuit of what’s unfamiliar and un- known. This process almost always happens privately, while exhibiting new work happens publicly. Showing art allows an artist to see the work working, to test if it holds up, and to further understand its language and modes of articulation.
What’s A Public For? is a choreographed, generative, and communal activity designed to bring the acts of making and showing closer together. The exhibition title is intended to encourage a deeper thinking about each artist’s disposition. In addition to focusing on individual artworks, the viewer is invited to pay par- ticular attention to how the artists engage the world around – and within – them to gain a better under- standing of their relationship with the public.
Part II: marta rodríguez maleck, Ghida Dalloul, Tairan Hao, Cooper Campbell, Emilie Slater, Jewan Goo, Jacob Weinberg, Gayoung Lee, Alicia Riccio, Cicada Chen
