Don't mind if I do
September 10 - November 27, 2024
Don’t mind if I do is an experiment in more deeply collaborative exhibition-making, demonstrating how even temporary changes in power structures create pathways of access for visitors, artists, and staff.
Grounded in a longtime fantasy of artist Finnegan Shannon – an idea of an exhibition setup that would lavishly meet their access needs – this project developed around a conveyor belt. Embraced for its efficiency and mechanized transport of goods (even sushi), this equipment is reappropriated here as a vehicle for cultivating a more relaxed museum-going experience. The conveyor belt brings artwork to audience members, who are invited to sit on comfortable furniture and engage with a parade of objects through any combination of touch, sight, and sound.
Sharing the work of eleven artists who have influenced Shannon’s practice, Don’t mind if I do destabilizes rigid ableist and exclusionary museum “best practices” like sparse seating, untouchable objects, dense wall labels, and guards who protect rather than invite engagement. It is a project built upon a framework of flexibility. By welcoming glitches, inviting informality and messiness, and unsettling the hierarchy of objects, Don’t mind if I do prioritizes people over artwork and makes more room for us to show up as our full selves.
EXHIBITION RECEPTION:
Thursday, September 12, 5-8 PM
University Library Gallery
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Our Day Will Come
Esther Marie Hall
September 10 - November 27, 2024
What do red, white, and blue mean to you? What can a star symbolize? Our Day Will Come presents a new body of work by Sacramento-based artist Esther Marie Hall. Inspired by early American quilts and motifs specific to the Underground Railroad, Hall populates her drawings, paintings, and textile work with representations of freedom: stars, interlocking rings, and the colors of the American flag. By reclaiming symbols that in recent times have become highly politicized, Hall invites viewers to “envision a new world, to contemplate a new flag, that symbolizes the freedom and liberation we aspire to achieve, both individually and collectively."
Our Day Will Come
PLATFORM
ConSortiUm, a collaboration of CSU Galleries and Museums presents PLATFORM: A Series of Conversations with Socially-Engaged Artists, Curators, and Collectives.
