BED: Containing Multitudes
Our inaugural exhibition resulting from our Open Call #1: Bed Portraits.
Broken Time Machines: Discussing the Work of Daisy Patton
2:30pm-4pm
Monday, February 7, 2022
Virtual Event
Free and Open to the Public
Daisy Patton’s colorfully resuscitated photographs serve as a rich source for dialogue around memory, marginalized histories, and the renewal and reimagining of loss. This panel, co-hosted by the Davis Museum with the curatorial initiative Holding Space Archive, celebrates the recent publication of Broken Time Machines, an anthology of writings about Patton’s work by Minerva Press. In this special event, Dr. Carrie Cushman, former Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis Museum, will join Rachel da Silveira Gorman, Associate Professor of Critical Disability Studies at York University; Megan Bent, alternative process photographer of disability culture and identity; Zoey Hart, interdisciplinary artist and director of the Art Beyond Sight residency program; and Moira Williams, indigenous disabled artist, organizer, and culture activist; to consider personal histories, decay, and renewal/reenvisioning in photography, through the lens of contemporary criticism and collective care, centering the work of Patton as conversational fount.
Hosted by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Collaboratively organized by Minerva Projects and Holding Space Archive
Register at https://wellesley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PVHWcO6zR-yYpzDWOl2I1Q
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Image Info:
Title: Untitled (City Photo Studio Day & Night Service 84 Lawani Street New Benin Benin City Date _____)
Medium: Oil on archival print mounted to panel
Size: 90"x60"
Date: 2021
Photo from Nigeria sourced in the United Kingdom
Open Call #1: Bed Portraits
Our first open call (due Feb 22) seeks submissions under the topic of “Bed Portraits.” This theme is not meant to be taken literally, but rather, we ask the artists to consider their bed as a site of containing multitudes of experiences. As folks who are chronically ill and/or disabled, we spend more time than the average person in bed. So many contradictory yet complementary experiences - resting/restless, quiet/pain, vulnerability, empowerment, fluidity/conflict, radical activism, calm contemplation….what does your understanding of “bed” bring to mind? We ask you to explore this range of experience and focus on what you most want to convey from your own thoughts and practice.