Laying in wait, 2018
Laying in Wait examines what it feels like to wait. The unpunctuated, endless time of physically being in one place and mentally miles away/nowhere. The dentist asks how your day is while your mouth is wide open and you stare at a waterfall on the ceiling. You check and recheck your email while going pee. The hold music on speakerphone becomes your breakfast soundtrack. Can this space of non-presence or stasis be a place of potential? In this time of political turmoil, which is actually all times, is it possible to have productive waiting?
Hair and Nails Gallery has been transformed into an indeterminate waiting room replete with a distorted drop ceiling, a stretched sunrise calendar and a room of tissue boxes. Visitors are invited to “fish” for bodily conveniences such as mints, tampons and tylenol through a hole in the floor. Where the upstairs gallery space is about the experience of being physically and mentally unsynched, the basement gallery space brings the needs of the body back into focus with a bathroom installation that includes a television and snacks and a suite of handmade toilets resembling a familial gathering. Sometimes being a person or supporting a person is purely tending to the needs of the body.
Please note: The exhibition is on two floors. The main floor is wheelchair accessible. The basement exhibition space is reached by 12 wooden stairs. Images and descriptions of the basement portion of the exhibition are provided. A single-stall ungendered bathroom is located in the basement. A wheel chair accessible, ungendered single stall bathroom is located across the street at The Future during all gallery hours, and from 6-8pm opening night. Bathroom locator is provided. There is no wheelchair accessible bathroom during the conversation event. Please plan accordingly.
Special thanks to: Jacob Aaron Roske for collaborating and designing the sound Waiting Rooms; Molly Roth Scranton for knitting the cozy for Get Comfortable (This Might Take a While) and for participating in the conversation with Diane Mullin; Ryan Fontain and Kristin VanLoon for the opportunity, support and space; Eric Ramstad, Josie Winship, Travis McEwen, Kelley Meister and Aren Aizura for install/de-install help and emotional support; Tina Zavitsanos and Park McArthur for phone support, all the writers, reviewers and everyone who visited and offered their feedback.
REVIEWS:
City Pages A Listing by Camille LeFevre, City Pages, 2018
Star Tribune 5 must-see art shows review by Alicia Aler, Star Tribune, 2018
"Between Boredom and the Body" in MPLSART.COM by Erin Moore, MPLSART.COM, 2018
Photos by Seth Dahlseid
Hair and Nails Gallery has been transformed into an indeterminate waiting room replete with a distorted drop ceiling, a stretched sunrise calendar and a room of tissue boxes. Visitors are invited to “fish” for bodily conveniences such as mints, tampons and tylenol through a hole in the floor. Where the upstairs gallery space is about the experience of being physically and mentally unsynched, the basement gallery space brings the needs of the body back into focus with a bathroom installation that includes a television and snacks and a suite of handmade toilets resembling a familial gathering. Sometimes being a person or supporting a person is purely tending to the needs of the body.
Please note: The exhibition is on two floors. The main floor is wheelchair accessible. The basement exhibition space is reached by 12 wooden stairs. Images and descriptions of the basement portion of the exhibition are provided. A single-stall ungendered bathroom is located in the basement. A wheel chair accessible, ungendered single stall bathroom is located across the street at The Future during all gallery hours, and from 6-8pm opening night. Bathroom locator is provided. There is no wheelchair accessible bathroom during the conversation event. Please plan accordingly.
Special thanks to: Jacob Aaron Roske for collaborating and designing the sound Waiting Rooms; Molly Roth Scranton for knitting the cozy for Get Comfortable (This Might Take a While) and for participating in the conversation with Diane Mullin; Ryan Fontain and Kristin VanLoon for the opportunity, support and space; Eric Ramstad, Josie Winship, Travis McEwen, Kelley Meister and Aren Aizura for install/de-install help and emotional support; Tina Zavitsanos and Park McArthur for phone support, all the writers, reviewers and everyone who visited and offered their feedback.
REVIEWS:
City Pages A Listing by Camille LeFevre, City Pages, 2018
Star Tribune 5 must-see art shows review by Alicia Aler, Star Tribune, 2018
"Between Boredom and the Body" in MPLSART.COM by Erin Moore, MPLSART.COM, 2018
Photos by Seth Dahlseid