Contributing Artists

Kayla Anderson, Ben Thorp Brown, Laura Cooney, Dalton & McClellan, Max Garett, Suzanne Reid, Robert Seckler, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Ellis von Sternberg, Alexander Wolfe

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:

 Although research is an important part of many artists’ practice, the absence of research material in completed work cultuvates the image of the impusive and spontaneous artist. Baring Investigation is a response to this – an attempt to rethink what the word “research” can mean to both artist and audience. Whether it is through a formal investigation of materials or the historical dialogue embedded within the conceptual gathering of information and source, amny of the works in the exhibition address the body – both human and animal – be that in its absence, its particulars, or the assumption of its form. The corporeal presence in the room is simultaneously uncertain and assertive. As such, the spatial distance between peices becomes a bodily experiment that asks viewers to investigate their won position to the owrk, questioning the ability research has to mediate, limit or expand our reseption of both the presence and absence of the body.