NYAB Event - “Accompaniment” Exhibition

“Accompaniment” Exhibition

EFA Project Space

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Curators: Kari Cwynar and Kendra Sullivan

Accompaniment is a curatorial project exploring “accompaniment” as an evolving theory of practice, developed in response to our cultural and political milieu. The project asks: might an artistic practice characterized by distributed authorship be a catalyst for a shift in the ways we produce, exhibit, and write about art? This exhibition enacts accompaniment such that the physical, historical, and social supports within individual practices are made manifest, but also so that each participant and contribution inevitably accompanies and is accompanied in the present grouping. This model subverts the order of the soloist, laying bare a deeply stratified ground in which everything created is inscribed and contingent.

The exhibition acts as staging ground upon which accompaniment emerges as a usable model of practice. Support, understood in its widest brushstroke as the “second position,” is tested, fatigued, and reified; we try to broaden forms of abstract support that sustain the practice of the artist and the body of the artist, as well as wider culture economies. Accompaniment produces work in multiple disciplines, some audible, some legible, some visible, some holding the show together. Participating artists accompany each other, light, archives, unknown artists, texts, architecture, objects, gossip, and songs.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Sculpture

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