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Being & Feeling (Alone, Together), a curatorial project developed in 2020 for the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, USA and the MUU Gallery in Helsinki, Finland, was disrupted by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The gallery’s closure required a reconsideration of what is often taken for granted in curating—the impact of face-to-face interactions in an exhibition setting.
The early months of the pandemic were marked by profound stillness. In response, the project, part of my doctoral research on Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency, addressed what "moves" in an exhibition and what facilitates this movement. Choreographic thinking addressed the physical, affective, and technological challenges of the pandemic through experimental and responsive means. Conversations, a commitment to the exhibition themes, and a reconsideration of spaces and sites helped artists and audiences engage. This exposition is an expanded conversation with the gestural, aspirational, and open-ended characteristics of my choreographic-curatorial practice.
The project acknowledges the visible movements within artistic research, as well as unseen, unacknowledged, and imagined ones. The Project Overview is a good place to start.
[This exposition corresponds to Section Seven: Letting Things Move in the printed dissertation.]
