Cameron Crawford & Jibade-Khalil Huffman "Double-Jointed"
Scaramouche
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Scaramouche presents Double-Jointed, an exhibition bringing together new and recent work by Cameron Crawford and Jibade-Khalil Huffman, both of whose practices rely on the articulation of visual ideas through language.
Double-jointed implies a special inclination for flexibility, describing mobility or contortion most people cannot manage. It suggests a degree of abnormality, but it's an 'unusual' that feels comprehensible, or better yet, productive. Double-jointed involves a single joint or (con)junction, which is a convergence, out of which emerges a fork. It is a fork anchored by a shared hinge. As such, there is a hub, an articulation, an axis that allows two elements to pivot or swivel.
Language is always double-jointed: at once literal and figurative, material and immaterial. There is a phonic (which is to say material) aspect of language that isn't accounted for by semantics. It is performance, voice, register; breath and moisture, throat and mouth, as well as wood and metal. These elements are in constant relation to one another but not always moving in the same direction. They flex toward and away, always linked, in a state of mutual support.
The expression double-jointed provides foundation for both of these artists, manifest and tangible through poetry in Huffman's videos, collages, and slide shows; while Crawford's texts serve to order and classify, providing a sort of taxonomy realized through drawings, illustrations, and sculptural elements. Converging through language, the artists' works lithely rotate outward through their methodology and engagement with material.
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Schedule
from May 20, 2012 to June 08, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-05-20 from 18:00 to 20:00