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Immersing the audience in sound and light Nikita Gale's END OF
SUBJECT subverts understandings of viewership by prompting
spectators to question their subjecthood within 52 Walker's
site-specific installation. Creating an aurally and visually rich
environment, Gale engages with the architecture of the surrounding
space, stimulating all senses through site-specific installation
and muses on the boundaries of performance art. Considering and
fracturing the physical space of the installation, the artist
employs abolitionist ideology and institutional critique to
simultaneously rupture and rebuild facets of the art institution.
With an introduction by Ebony L. Haynes and a suite of poems by
Harmony Holiday, this publication considers Gale's
multidisciplinary approach to address historical hierarchies of
visibility. A text by the esteemed artist Andrea Fraser offers
reflections on the various interventions at play during a gathering
held in the exhibition.
Williams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space
that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how
movement might be read. Looking at the interconnections between
popular culture and myth, she relates in her work anatomy, regions
of Black diaspora, and communication and obfuscation. Williams's
body of work shapes an alternative language that examines how Black
moving bodies are regarded. Williams continues to make visible the
inexpressible violence Black bodies have been subjected to in dance
and beyond. Featuring contributions by the curator of 52 Walker-a
David Zwirner gallery space-Ebony L. Haynes and the artist and
writer Hannah Black, and a stirring conversation between Williams
and the choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, the book serves as an
extension of the exhibition. Included are high-quality
illustrations of the artworks alongside rich archival materials. -
About Clarion Series The Clarion series of illustrated publications
is positioned as an extension of each exhibition at the
groundbreaking gallery space 52 Walker, curated by Ebony L. Haynes.
The program focuses on showcasing conceptual and research-based
artists from a range of backgrounds and at various stages in their
careers. The series title is derived from the Clarion Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, the oldest of its kind, at
the University of California, San Diego. Octavia Butler attended
this workshop in the 1970s. Both she and her work have been
extremely influential in many cadres of Black culture and
subculture. With a sleek design influenced by encyclopedias, each
publication will feature color reproductions of the works on view,
alongside an introduction by Haynes, commissioned essays, artist
texts, archival material, and more.
The third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based
artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the
omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary
culture. ---------- “Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus,
the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor
of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the
laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of
that effort.” — Art in America ---------- Originally trained as
a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create
messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear
to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and
thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In
three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses
the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our
contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in
advertisements. Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely
popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication
features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an
extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are
also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn
Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost
from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
Tau Lewis’s mythical sculptures create elaborate portals into
fantastic worlds “At 52 Walker, artist Tau Lewis transmutes the
lifeblood of scrap objects into something sanctified. . . . I’m
reminded that an art gallery can also be a temple.” — New York
Magazine Following her acclaimed presentation Divine Giants
Tribunal at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Lewis has continued to create
anthropomorphic forms inspired by those in Yoruban mask
dramas—ones which are spiritually activated by the wearer and the
audience and, by extension, their community. Conversing with
spiritual and ancestral pasts, Lewis’s works reinvent and
reconsider narratives of Greek myths, theater, and death. In this
body of work, the artist reexamines apocalyptic themes as an
opportunity for reconstruction and transformation. Documenting and
expanding on Lewis’s exhibition at 52 Walker titled Vox Populi,
Vox Dei, this catalogue contextualizes the artist’s narrative
investigations. Poetry by the multidisciplinary artist and activist
Yves B. Golden complements Lewis’s otherworldly motifs. With a
curator’s note by Ebony L. Haynes, this publication also features
an essay by Tiana Reid that explores Lewis’s practice, drawing
connections that range from Wole Soyinka to Frederick Douglass.
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