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An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together
New Red Order, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Caroline Woolard each approach collaboration, shared knowledge and collective action through distinct forms.
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You walk into what looks like a real estate office, with listings and brochures, except every property on offer is land being handed back to Indigenous people. That's New Red Order's Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty (Office Edition). Its central film, cut partly like an episode of MTV Cribs, tours an apartment supposedly given back by NRO collaborator Jim Fletcher.
Two more works share the floor. Kameelah Janan Rasheed's Study: East Palo Alto is an evolving library on Nairobi College, the Black school her hometown's residents built and ran themselves, and you're invited to copy the materials and pass them on. Caroline Woolard's kinetic sculptures balance wooden poles that seem to float. She noticed she had spent at least half her artistic life in meetings, so she started making objects for them.
Bring time for the film and the library. Entry is free, on the third floor at 319 North 11th Street, Thursdays 4 to 6pm and Friday to Sunday 12 to 6pm.
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New Red Order, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Caroline Woolard each take on collaboration and collective action, in Vox Populi's autumn project on how artists work together. The rare endless meeting you're free to walk out of.
Look for
The land-back real estate office
Look for property-style listings and promotional materials that advertise land returned to Indigenous people, with New Red Order's film playing at the centre.
The Jim Fletcher apartment tour
The film swerves between branded content, documentary and a decolonial MTV Cribs, touring an apartment supposedly given back by the reformed Native American impersonator.
Rasheed's Nairobi College library
Archive excerpts on East Palo Alto's community-run Black school are laid out as a spatial diagram, and visitors can copy them and circulate them.
Woolard's Art of Gravity
Wooden poles appear to float in mid-air and plaster arms circle stands on their fingertips, held up by balance alone.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want paintings on walls: this is an office installation, a film, a reading library and balancing sculptures.
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- An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working TogetherCourtesy of Vox Populi
- You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary TapestryPhoto credit: Constance Mensh.
- Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just BegunCourtesy of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Vox PopuliVox Populi
- The Fabric Workshop and MuseumJohn Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- African American Museum in Philadelphiaajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- National Constitution CenterBeyond My Ken, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0