The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to welcome the campus community back with our fall exhibition, Ambiguous Territory. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, August 28th, with an opening reception and public celebration on Thursday, September 5th, from 5-7 p.m.
AMBIGUOUS TERRITORY: Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural
Curated by David Salomon (Assistant Professor, Art History)
Cathryn Dwyre (Pratt), Chris Perry (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), & Kathy Velikov (University of Michigan)
August 28–December 15, 2019
Can the ill effects of modernity’s insistence on isolation be understood, let alone reversed, by evermore isolation? Or, do complex environmental and humanitarian issues demand more inclusive and indirect techniques to recognize and reflect upon them? Ambiguous Territory answers this second question in the affirmative.
Defined by uncertainty and indeterminacy, ambiguous entities are always admixtures; their transformative logic creates improbable hybrids. In Ambiguous Territory these complex admixtures include combinations that incorporates disciplines that integrate information technologies with biological species, and aggregate invisible atmospheres with physical matter to create new architectural and artistic idioms.
In this experimental spirit of cultivating other outcomes Ambiguous Territory asks: in a postnatural age where humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege and the status of nature as an antidote to humans’ hubris has vanished, can architects, landscape architects, and artists propose new ways to approach contemporary questions at the environmental scale? What new worlds, new natures, and new sensations can art and design reveal and create that other modes of inquiry and knowledge cannot?
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All exhibitions and events at the Handwerker Gallery are free and open to the public. The Handwerker Gallery is open Monday, Wednesday, & Friday from 10am-6pm; and Thursdays from 10am-9pm. Faculty and staff requesting tours, and individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Anna Gardner at agardner1@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3548. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20190822121255623