Staying in Touch, 2017
Exhibition at the Nook Gallery in Oakland, California thanks to Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Exhibition at the Nook Gallery in Oakland, California thanks to Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Staying in Touch, 2017
Exhibition at the Nook Gallery in Oakland, California thanks to Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Staying in Touch: a thirty day exploration of ways to make at distance,
a project designed by Carolina Magis Weinberg and enacted by the residents of Nook Gallery, from May 22- June 22, 2017.
The opening reception and performance consisted of a collective Confe-tea party on May 20th 2017.
This project asked the following questions:
How to remain? This exhibition explores the possibilities of making by proxy. When the artist is in different coordinates,
how can there still be objects being made thousands of kilometers away?
In this show the inhabitants of the Nook Gallery created a series of 30 objects by proxy through a set of instruction cards.
There was an opening event where the artist was present, and a closing event where she was not present anymore.
In between those moments ran the thirty-day making project.
On the opening night Confe-tea was performed by the artist and those who attended. Visitors were invited to take a seat at the table and classify
confettï by color throughout the evening. At the end of the night, each color was brewed individually into colorful cups of tea..
At the end of the night the confe-tea was frozen into ice cubes. On the last day the frozen Confe-tea was taken out of the freezer and melted back together.
A process of uniting, separating, and coming back together (changed).
The exhibition then became a series of instructions and the inhabitation of the Nook gallery with objects. Every stage was registered by Lukaza on the Nook's instagram account: