"Matter Out of Place" Exhibition
The Kitchen
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Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas’s analyses of how disturbances arise in society’s physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new works by artists who observe, represent, and activate public sites, generating alternative relationships to such strictly defined urban spaces as the housing project, park, and museum lobby.
Time and space in the urban setting are often highly regimented, with different moments and places typically allocated for specific behaviors, both public and private. Yet often overlooked in any such structure is the personal history carried within each individual, which inevitably informs her or his experience at the same time that it offers the possibility of reshaping the use of any site.
While certain artists on view in Matter approach this in a literal manner, physically changing these sites for a stretch of time, others are exploring the limits of architecture or place within a daily routine. These representations are by no means objective, even at times deliberately inaccurate. The artists approach the spaces we occupy and our interactions within them as poetic, anthropological, or phenomenological.
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Schedule
from June 27, 2012 to August 17, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-06-27 from 18:00 to 20:00