{"id":6743,"date":"2018-03-27T13:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2018-03-27T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:57:43","slug":"unwilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/unwilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n

Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy
\nat Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College
\nin Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
\n23 March-27 April 2018<\/h2>\n

Curated by Vanessa Kwan and Kimberly Phillips<\/p>\n

“Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy” proposes a re-consideration of melancholia defined through our contemporary condition. Resisting the historical definition of melancholy as an affliction that creates disorder or inactivity, this exhibition reimagines passive sadness as powerful refusal, a conscious (or unconscious) \u201cstanding aside,\u201d a willful production of generative failures and resistant potencies. Each of the contributing artists begins with the idea that outside the boundaries of \u201ccontentment\u201d resides a potent flourishing. Unwilling is a resistance and a proposition: it responds to the profound cultural reckoning we are witnessing in this moment in time, as the boundaries and exclusions of state-defined citizenship become increasingly fraught.<\/p>\n

The exhibition crosses disciplinary boundaries. The \u201cweeping\u201d willow is at the centre of media artist Noa Giniger<\/strong>\u2019s multi-faceted take on reversals of sadness and the refusal to succeed. Dance artist Justine Chambers<\/strong> explores choreographies of resistance, growing out of a studious and embodied interpretation of all the minor gestures on the way to hands raised in surrender. Sculpture- and performance-based artist Mike Bourscheid<\/strong> mines absurdities in relation to our cultural preoccupations with masculinist productivity, while social practice artist Ginger Brooks Takahashi<\/strong> works to create new networks of value in the production of food, drink and community. Poet and critic Billy-Ray Belcourt<\/strong> positions mourning as a defining aspect of an active and resistant subject and proposes that the future, if it is to hold us at all, must address this subject head on.<\/p>\n

“Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy” is made possible with support from the John B. Hurford \u201960 Center for the Arts and Humanities. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the Hurford Center\u2019s 2017\u201318 Faculty Seminar \u201cThe Arts of Melancholy\u201d led by Richard Freedman (Music).<\/p>\n

(adapted from the venue’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery<\/strong>
\nHaverford College
\n370 Lancaster Avenue
\nHaverford, Pennsylvania 19041 USA
\n(610) 896-1287<\/p>\n

Hours:
\nMonday-Tuesday, 11AM-5PM
\nWednesday, 11AM-8PM
\nThursday-Friday, 11AM-5PM
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Image:<\/strong>
\nThe Sorrow the Joy Brings<\/em> (publication detail)
\nby\u00a0Noa Giniger
\n6.5″x8.3″
\ncollage from steel engraving (Napoleons Grab, 1838)
\n2012
\nCourtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA 23 March-27 April 2018 Curated by Vanessa Kwan and Kimberly Phillips “Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy” proposes a re-consideration of melancholia defined through…<\/p>\n

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