Offerings Somatic — the body as substance of ritual - Exhibition Object List
Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco
November 30, 2023-Feburary 18, 2024
Curated by Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen and the Fall ’23 MA in Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum class
Checklist
Chris Evans and collaborators
Transmuting Heartbreak
2023
Performance and installation with natural elements and soundscape
(The performance took place in Thacher Gallery on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023)
Collaborators: Pilar Kayser (video footage), Chingwell Mutombu (walking re-membering video), The Hawk, Center for Healing and Liberation, Ernest Jolly, The Redwoods, House/Full of Black Women, Rhiannon Evans MacFayden, Byb Chanel Bibene, Baily - Destiny Arts, the trees of Whidbey Island, Whidbey Institute, Tossie Long, Tobe Melora Correal, Milicent Johnson, My Ancestors.
Case of elements and images pointing to the ancestry of objects that make up Transmuting Heartbreak with photographs by Sibila Savage and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
Evelyn Leder
There Isn't Anything
2008
Video, single channel
5 minute loop
Evelyn Leder
Strait
1996
Video, single channel
16mm, 12 minute loop
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Wholes 1054 Featuring Mica Sigourney
2014
Archival Pigment Print
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Wholes 0256 Featuring Juba Kalumka
2014
Archival Pigment Print
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Wholes 1175 Featuring Seth Eisen
2014
Archival Pigment Print
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 0767 Featuring Leo Forte
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 0491 Featuring Miguel Mcnamara
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 1187 Featuring Seth Eisen
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 0322 Featuring Brontez Purnell
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 0560 Featuring Keith Hennessey
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Evelyn Leder
The Objects/The Parts 0308 Featuring Brontez Purnell
2014/2023
Dye sublimation on aluminum
Case with a contract, pen, teacup, and tea used in agreements between Evelyn Leder and the models for The Parts and The Wholes.
Tossie Long and collaborators
Red Clay Sound Haus
2023
Sound installation with doll house, video, choir robes, paintings, and a case of artifacts
Artifacts in case include memories and musing from members of Red Clay Sound Haus, Decon Alva, Mother Inez, the Anderson Family, Ander Brother’s Contracting, Zion Hill Baptish Church, and Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Objects include photographs, wallet, cast iron pot, cane, hair, and other personal items.
Collaborators: The Anderson Family, Evelyn Ficarra, Maria Judice (2 videos), Sonia McDaniel (paintings), Inez Schynell, Abeje Sneed, Schynell Strong, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Case by Tossie Long includes photograph of the artist as a child, black-eyed peas, hair, shells, yarn, cotton, and cinnamon.
Midori
Kimono 2: What We Wear (Reliquiae)
2017
Video and sculptural installation with audio
24-minute loop
Antique kimono, tempera paint, acrylic paint, bamboo, antique Noh mask (onnamen 女面 )
Midori
Evoco
2011-ongoing
Fabric, rope, sumi ink, flowers, gold leaf, gold pigment, gouache, silk
Evoco is a performance and installation that occurs in three stages:
- Performance (took place in Thacher Gallery on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 with Midori and performer Samar Soriano)
- Meditation and painting
- Finished scroll
Scrolls
Midori
Oakland from the series Evoco
2011
Paper, sumi ink, gold pigment, silk
Midori
Crockett from the series Evoco
2016
Paper, sumi ink, silk
Midori
San Francisco from the series Evoco
2014
Paper, sumi ink, gold pigment, gold leaf, silk
Midori
Tokyo from the series Evoco
2012
Paper, sumi ink, gold pigment, gold leaf, silk
Midori
Oakland from the series Evoco
2013
Paper, sumi ink, gold pigment, gold leaf, silk
Midori
Stockholm from the series Evoco
2011
Paper, sumi ink, gold pigment, gold leaf, silk
Two cases feature past performance photographs and resources, including books Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Listen to Stone: the art and life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera, In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichiro Tanzaki.
As part of the exhibition, the curator also created an offering for each artist and a respite area that includes poems by students in the Curatorial Practicum class.