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Reassembly

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Nine people seated on a geometric wood platform. The second person from the right holds a microphone.

Nov 05, 2022 11:00 AM

Wexner Center for the Arts

Free for all audiences (registration required)

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ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Inspired by the center’s fall 2022 exhibitions, this free, participatory gathering invites collective exploration of place and community through queer and decolonial lenses.

In the process of making his Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project, The ~~Columbus~~ Assembly—currently featured in the exhibition Your Monsters, Our Idols—Carlos Motta convened scholars, activists, artists, and community members to explore what might be at stake in changing the name of Columbus, Ohio. The prompt led to a free-ranging discussion about Indigenous sovereignty, land stewardship, and communal belonging that raised many more questions than answers.

Reassembly revisits these questions as the starting place for a new conversation, inviting an open investigation of place-naming and world-making. An experiment in group consciousness-raising—a key theme in Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective, also on view at the Wex—Reassembly will activate both exhibitions through facilitated discussions held in our galleries.

Registration is required to participate in this event. Details on the schedule and community agreements will be shared with registered attendees. Please email exhweb@wexarts.org with questions.

IMAGE CAPTION
Gender Talents: A Special Address at the Tanks, Tate Modern, London (2013). Convened by Carlos Motta and Electra; photo: Christa Holka, courtesy of the artist.

Program schedule

Listening session and group discussion | 11 AM–12:15 PM
Address questions of commemoration, participation, and community in this session focusing on Carlos Motta’s residency project, The ~~Columbus~~ Assembly.

Break for coffee and snacks | 12:15–12:45 PM

Sharing Circles panel discussion | 12:45–2 PM
Learn more about histories—and herstories—of queer and feminist world-building from a group of panelists that includes featured artist Carol Newhouse and is moderated by cocurators Daniel Marcus (he/him) and Carmen Winant (she/her).

About the panelists

Carol Newhouse (she/her) is a cofounder of the WomanShare Collective and a key contributor to the lesbian photography movement of the 1970s and 80s.

Michelle Arevalos Franco (she/her) is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Ohio State and founder of the Bureau of Common Lands and Waters.

Marjorie Lee (they/them) is cofounder of Sunday Creek Sanctuary on Adena/Hopewell/Osage land in Athens, Ohio.

Julie Rae Powers (she/they) is an artist and Ohio State alum whose photographic and written work has focused on family history, coal, Appalachia, the queer “female” gaze, the butch body, and queer chosen families.

Daniel Rivers (he/him) is an associate professor of history at Ohio State, specializing in LGBT communities in the 20th century, Native American history, the family and sexuality, and US social protest movements.

Tag(s)

Education

Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols is organized by the Wexner Center and curated by Associate Curator of Exhibitions Lucy I. Zimmerman with Exhibition Research Assistant Indigo Gonzales Miller and Graduate Curatorial Intern Arielle Irizarry.

Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective is organized by the Wexner Center and cocurated by Ohio State Associate Professor and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art Carmen Winant and Wexner Center Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus with Curatorial Research Assistant Raechel Root and Graduate Curatorial Intern Arielle Irizarry.

FALL EXHIBITIONS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
FotoFocus
Ohio Humanities

EXHIBITION SEASON MADE POSSIBLE BY
Bill and Sheila Lambert
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Carol and David Aronowitz
Crane Family Foundation
Mike and Paige Crane

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Arts Council
L Brands Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
CampusParc
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard
Nancy Kramer
Larry and Donna James
Lisa Barton
Johanna DeStefano
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate