One More Week of Our Subject Is You !

Our Subject is You closes this Sunday, September 13, 2009.  Please take advantage of this final week to take naps, draw on the walls, and jump up and down with a broom between your legs!

CO-CURATORS TALK TONIGHT – 5:30, Thursday, September 3

5:30pm, Thursday, September 3, 2009

Co-Curators’ Gallery Talk: Xandra Eden and Lee Walton

Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions and Lee Walton, Assistant Professor, UNCG Department of Art will give an insider’s tour of the exhibition, Our Subject is You !

Free.

STEVE LAMBERT’S TALK – OPEN TO PUBLIC

Meet artist Sherri Lynn Wood at the Weatherspoon! – 5:30pm Thursday, August 20 & 2-4pm, Saturday, August 22nd

Our Subject is You artist Sherri Lynn Wood will be on-site for the following Weatherspoon events:

Artist’s Talk – 5:30 pm, Thursday, August 20. Weatherspoon Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Group Stitching Mantra: A Trans-Craft Experience. 2-4 pm on Saturday, August 22. Join artist Sherri Lynn Wood on an imaginative, meditative, communal journey that merges the Eastern spiritual traditions of mudras, mandalas and mantras, and systems-centered practice with the simple act of stitching.Weatherspoon Dillard Room. $10 members/ $20 non-members. Materials included. Register by e-mail: t_dowell@uncg.edu, phone: (336) 256-1449.

Find out more by visiting:

http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/events/events_detail.asp?WamCoeID=492

Our Subject on WFDD’s Triad Arts Up Close

David Ford interviewed me and Nina Katchadourian about Our Subject is You for WFDD’s Triad Arts Up Close. You can listen and/or download this 2 part interview, which aired on July 2 and July 8, 2009,  by visiting:

WFDD Interview – Our Subject is You Part 1

http://wfdd.org/tauc.php/pl1246510800/cal1246424400/ts=

WFDD Interview – Our Subject is You Part 2

http://wfdd.org/tauc.php/pl1247029200/cal1246424400/ts=

Continuing

Hi everyone.

I was away on vacation for the past few weeks and wasn’t able to post. I came back to find no comments on my past posts however, which is making me a little concerned. Would be wonderful if you could participate by sharing and providing feedback on the show.

Also, please check out this fascinating article from the Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0721/p17s01-algn.html

In the meantime, I’ll continue posting some more images from the show…

Nina Katchadourian worked with sports announcer, Mike Hogewood, to create custom introductions for each of the guests at the opening reception. Audio samplings from this work, titled "We Are Proud to Present," can be heard in the South Vestibule of the Weatherspoon ( between the two sets of glass double doors that exit out to the sculpture courtyard). Photo: Martin Tucker.

Steve Lambert's "I Will Talk With Anyone About Anything," as realized by Donovan McKnight and unknown woman. Photo: Martin Tucker.

Viewer's enjoy selections from Some People: Greensboro, a project initiated by Harrell Fletcher. Photo: Martin Tucker.

The Montagnard/Dega Association were invited to participate as special guests at the opening reception for this exhibition. This social networking event, "Weatherspoon, Dega. Dega, Weatherspoon." was organized by Darren O'Donnell. Photo: Martin Tucker.

Pictures of an Exhibition

Hello.  I have been away and unable to post for a while. Here are a few pics from the opening on June 19. Above, is an image of me and Lee with the artists who came into Greensboro to create work for the show – from left to right: Nina Katchadourian, me, Darren O’Donnell, San Keller (it is his work, Who Falls Asleep First, that we are sitting on) and Lee Walton.

Below is a picture of San’s work in the gallery. Viewers are invited to lie down on the bed and try to go to sleep with San.

These are some pics of people performing some of Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures:

And, everyone loved drawing on the gallery walls for Tonico Auad Lemos’s work, Quatro Ventos !

Or posting their mantra’s on Sherri Lynn Wood’s Mantra Trailer wall:

More pics to come soon !

Tell us what you think

 

Would love to know your thoughts on the show.  Is there an experience you had in the show that you can tell us about?

 

Also, if you have pictures to post, send them my way.

 

A warm thanks to everyone (especially all of the artists and musicians) who participated in the opening ceremonies for Our Subject is You on June 19. Your involvement helped to make this event, and the show, truly unique. The performances by the Dega musicians and dancers were fantastic and it was wonderful to meet various members of that community. Nina Katchadourian’s performance with Mike Hogewood was equally amazing!  We sought to create a unique live experience that celebrated the vibrancy of our community and I think that goal was achieved ! 

 

Now waiting to receive images form the opening.. want to post them here. 

 

- Xandra

Our Subject is You Opens to the Public

Today’s the big day. The exhibition is installed, the lights are up, the stage is set, the beer is iced. 

We are so excited ! Can’t wait to see how everyone reacts to the work and the performances we have planned. Should be a good night.

2 Days to go

Today, San Keller and Darren O’Donnell will be arriving into Greensboro. Lee Walton, I and the Weatherspoon staff have been very busy putting things together for the show. So far we’ve got Erwin Wurm, Sherri Lynn Wood and Steve Lambert’s work pretty well set up. Still have to work a few things out but it is looking good!

San is coming in from Zurich via NYC. He is going to be making a bed cover and finding a bed to sleep in this afternoon. George Scheer at Elsewhere on S. Elm has generously offered to allow San to borrow material from the stock there, and even has offered to help make the cover and organize the bed. If all goes well, San will be sleeping (and filming) at the museum tomorrow. 

Darren is coming in from Toronto. He will start his initial meetings with the Dega community in Greensboro. The Degas are the indigenous people of Vietnam who were caught in the crossfire during the war in the 1960s and 70s. A little known fact is that Greensboro has the largest population of Degas outside of Vietnam. Darren will be working mostly with the Montagnard/Dega Association. Have to pick up a bike for him later today so that he can get around town.

Nina arrives tomorrow.

- XE