Curator

Felicia Mings

Contributing Artists

Tejpall Ajji, LaMont Hamilton, Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:

 In Ajji’s film, Auto-body Shop, a non-descript location and mundane but surreal action trouble notions of narrative and ethnographic film as modes of acquiring definite meaning. Auto mechanics roll the tires of an invisible car out of an auto-body shop, down a busy street, and through a park, reenacting actions akin to the movements of daily life. Hamilton’s Five on the Black Hand Side also focuses on a routine action specific to the artist’s life: the dap. Hamilton creates an indexical arrangement of images that traces the gestures and temporal permutations of this historically significant African-American handshake. Playing with Tyng’s Toys recuperates the history of female architect Anne Griswald-Tyng, who has long remained in the shadow of her lover and professional partner, Luis Kahn. Dionne-Krosnick re-creates Tyng’s modular toys, modeling herself with and after Tyng through a process of tactile learning, collaboration, and play. In Practicing the European Union Treaty, Miliou-Theocharaki questions the Treaty’s efficacy through a performance of erasure to signify the socio-economic duress that austerity measures have placed on the people of Greece and the resulting displacement and death of bodies that “don’t belong.”