Hello friends!
The day has come and I am so excited to invite you the opening of Collaborative Survival this week.
Collaborative Survival
Curated by Danni Shen
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street
June 18 - August 14, 2021
Jenny Brockmann
Beatrice Glow
Tahir Karmali
Goldie Poblador
Michael Wang
601Artspace is delighted to present a new exhibition, Collaborative Survival.
Please join us for the opening on Friday, June 18th, from 6-8pm
Curator's Statement:
Collaborative Survival explores the environmental narratives and ecological relationships that often get overlooked in mainstream consciousness. From dystopian sci-fi films to green technocapitalism, what often trickles down from scientific research on climate change into popular culture are dire visions of Earth’s future. The proposed scientific designation of our present geological epoch as the Anthropocene, in which humans are capable of driving the planet on a universal death track toward extinction, fuels these cultural narratives. However scientifically valid the concept of the Anthropocene may be, such an unfathomable, monolithic framework offers little room for the nuances of human and non-human relationships. While human activities are indisputably over-extracting from the earth, there are other stories to be told amid the ruins.
The artists in this exhibition mine the complex connections between humans and the lifeworlds of plants, revealing social, historical, political, personal, and material histories in the process. By joining feminist, decolonial, and indigenous scholars in taking to task the Western framework that positions “human” and “nature” as distinct and oppositional categories, these artists critique the erasure of other ways of living in the world that are inherently environmentally conscious or sustainable. In Collaborative Survival, plants and humans are bound together through specific, complex, and reciprocal relationships defined by interconnected processes of survival and displays of resilience that complicate the Anthropocene narrative.
Find more information about the exhibition here.
Danni Shen is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. She is a M.A. candidate at the Center for Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard.
Image: Goldie Poblador, Fertility Flowers, 2021, film still, 2:16, image courtesy of Goldieland Studio. Collaborators: Director of Photography: Sasha Palomares; Creative Direction by Apa Agbayani; Character Design, Hair and Makeup by Slo Lopez; Production Manager: Tony Battung; Edited by Abby Alcanzare; Color Grading by Bianca Francisco; Music composed and performed by Michelle Sui; Mixed and mastered by Zach Rosenberg; Exhibition Design by Hannah Liongoren; AV programming by Alex Hornstein; Installed by Sean Maze.
Fertility Flowers was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
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All my best,
Goldie