Julian Montague "Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed"
Black & White Gallery / Project Space
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Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed installation will occupy both the indoor and outdoor spaces and includes multiple aspects of animal/architecture engagement. The point of departure for the new work is investigation of the way in which animals (vertebrate and invertebrate) play a part in physically and conceptually transforming interior spaces into exterior ones. For this project, Montague collected and analyzed the types of insects and other pests that move into abandoned properties. In documenting his findings, the artist notes, “When investigating a Decay Community it is important to make a distinction between animals that have come to an abandoned structure by accident and those that spend a significant portion of their lifecycle in or on the structure. It is also important to note that not all members of a Decay Community directly contribute to the structural weakening of a building; they dismantle it by transforming it from an interior space into an exterior one.” Both the indoor and outdoor portions of the installation will feature graphic icons of animal occupiers suspended by a network of long white strings attached to elaborate maps and diagrams of houses and buildings in the indoor gallery and a rotting garden shed in the outdoor gallery.
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Schedule
from March 20, 2010 to May 28, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-03-20 from 18:00 to 21:00