Home
2017
September 17 – October 13
SITE Columbus
Curators
SITE Curated: Annie Chang, Carly Newman, Hanna Dausch, Ellie Tse, Joseph Josue Mora
Contributing Artists
Gabriel Egrater, Catherine Hu, Elizabeth Khong, Ting Yan Khor, Adam T. Mansour, Farah Salem, Rachel Wang
Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:
HOME is a group show curated by the SITE directors. As the Student Union Galleries transition toward SITE, we prepare to settle into a new home at our remodeled space on Columbus Drive and usher in the next generation of student-driven exhibition projects at SAIC. The SITE team is excited to welcome the campus and wider Chicago community to Home, a gathering of seven artists who consider and challenge ideas of belonging, identity and movement within and beyond the home. As public and private place, body, collective history and memory, Home draws from wide-ranging visual and material cultures of the domestic, ritualistic and linguistic that inhabit all our miscellaneous ways of living and existing.
Programming
- SITE Housewarming and Opening Reception: Home
- Home-yBaloney, come make Zineeees
- The World: Film Screening
- Home: Artist Talks
September 21, 4:00 – 6:00PM
SITE Columbus
This is an opening reception for both the SITE-curated exhibition, “Home,” and a launch party for SITE’s new identity. As the Student Union Galleries transition toward SITE, we prepare to settle into a new home at our remodeled space on Columbus Drive and usher in the next generation of student-centered, student-driven exhibition projects at SAIC. The SITE team is excited to welcome the campus and wider Chicago community to Home, a gathering of seven artists who consider and challenge ideas of belonging, identity, and movement within and beyond the home. As a public and private place, body, collective history, and memory, Home draws from wide-ranging visual and material cultures of the domestic, ritualistic, and linguistic that inhabit all our myriad ways of living and existing.
September 25, 4:15-5:45 PM
SITE Columbus
Ting Yan Khor, Rachel Wang
How does the structure of a zine frame the way we think about narratives? How do we translate notions of home into some tangible? How do different individuals approach and talk about “home” and what it means to them? Home participating artists, Ting Yan Khor and Rachel Wang, unpack the idea of “home” through this zine-making workshop, an inclusive space in which to process, write and draw various “homes,” and to decompress, step out of the “school” mindset and environment for a moment.
October 6, 4:15 – 6:00PM
Maclean Screening Room (MC1307)
Rachel Wang
In addition to using China’s capital city, Beijing, as their setting, The World, in conjunction with Home participating artist, Rachel Wang’s, Guidebooks, contemplate notions of the globalised and localised, particularly the problems and privileges that mobility, and a lack thereof, present. Although the concept of home is personal and highly varied, the way home is represented and territorialized for hegemonic purposes is often dependent on the generosity of the institution. As we consider how we look in, out, and sideways to home, we see and understand its changing based on the hats we don – the ones that we choose, and the ones that are chosen for us.
October 12, 4:15-5:45 PM
SITE Columbus
Gabrielle Egnater, Catherine Hu, Elizabeth Khong, Ting Yan Khor, Adam T Mansour, Farah Salem
The SITE team invites you to hear from six Home participating artists in a public dialogue as they consider and challenge ideas of belonging, identity and movement within and beyond the home. As public and private place, body, collective history and memory, Home draws from wide-ranging visual and material cultures of the domestic, ritualistic and linguistic that inhabit all our myriad ways of living and existing.
