{"id":253,"date":"2010-11-06T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T10:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:42:45","slug":"multispecies-salon-3-swarm-in-new-orleans-november-13-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2010\/11\/06\/multispecies-salon-3-swarm-in-new-orleans-november-13-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM in New Orleans November 13-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONTACT:
\n<\/strong>Dr. Eben Kirksey, 831.600.5937, ekirksey@gc.cuny.edu<\/a>
\nMyrtle Von Damitz lll, 504.908.4741, myrtlered@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wix.com\/multispecies\/multispecies<\/a><\/p>\n

October 25, 2010<\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n

Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhibitions to Open in New Orleans November 13, 2010<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Art exhibitions centered on the relationship between humans and other creatures, The Multispecies Salon 3: Swarm<\/em>, will open in the St. Claude Arts District of New Orleans on November 13, 2010 from <\/strong><\/em>6 pm to 10 pm and will run through December 5th<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Spawned by the <\/em>annual conference of the 2010 <\/em>American Anthropological Association (AAA), this year convening in New Orleans, the Multispecies Salon will explore relations between humans and other creatures.\u00c2\u00a0 Art shows will be installed at three sites in the St. Claude district: The Ironworks<\/em><\/strong>, (<\/em>612 Piety St.), The Front<\/strong> (4100 St. Claude Ave., on November 13th<\/sup> only), and Kawliga Studios<\/strong> (3331 St. Claude Ave.).<\/p>\n

Coming together in a collaborative venture from the East Coast, the West Coast and New Orleans, six members of a curatorial swarm\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMyrtle Von Damitz III, Marnia Johnston, Amy Jenkins, Nina Nichols, Karen Kern, and Eben Kirksey\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave brought together a multitude of creative agents.\u00c2\u00a0 Over seventy artists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhailing from New Orleans, the far reaches of the United States, Europe, and Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill animate the shows.\u00c2\u00a0 A full list of these participants\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding internationally acclaimed artists like Kathy High, Adam Zaretsky, and Cornelia Hesse-Honeger\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis available online.<\/p>\n

The swarm is a network with no center to dictate order.\u00c2\u00a0 Swarming is the tactic, rather than the theme, of the Multispecies Salon.\u00c2\u00a0 Three interrelated themes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dorbiting around human relationships with plants, microbes, and animals\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill come together in the Multispecies Salon: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hope in Blasted Landscapes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Edible Companions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d,<\/strong> and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Life in the Age of Biotechnology.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> Hope in Blasted Landscapes<\/em> will showcase forms of life that persist in post-industrial sites, in the aftermath of disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 Blurring the boundaries between food and art, we will invite gallery visitors to eat Edible Companions<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcritters whose bios<\/em>, biographical and political lives, might provoke a bit of indigestion.\u00c2\u00a0 Life in the Age of Biotechnology <\/em>will feature new organisms and machines that have been created by humans or are dependent upon on humans for their very survival.<\/p>\n

An opening reception will take place at all three gallery sites on Saturday, November 13, from 6 pm to 10 pm<\/strong>, in conjunction with the Prospect 1.5 biennial and the St. Claude Art Walk.\u00c2\u00a0 The Swarm Orbs, spherical robots that embody the tactics of our show, will be on the move outside The Front Gallery among goats from Pretty Doe Dairy, creatures involved in an urban bioremediation project.\u00c2\u00a0 Samples from a buffet of edible insects, prepared by Zack Lemann of the Audubon Insectarium, will also be available to visitors.<\/p>\n

Multispecies Salon events will continue the following week in association with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference<\/strong> as well as the New Orleans Fringe Festival<\/strong>, both from November 17-21<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Internationally renowned anthropologists will give lectures <\/strong>about human relations with other species, free and open to the public, at Kawliga Studios (6:30-7:30 pm, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, November 15-19<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Anthropologists will become embedded art critics<\/strong> at the Multispecies Salon\u00e2\u20ac\u201dworking alongside the curators to help stage and document the events with a live blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Happenings in art worlds will accompany discussions at the AAA conference about the emergence of a new approach to anthropology: multispecies ethnography<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Literally ethno-graphy<\/em> means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153people writing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and conventionally anthropologists have limited their research to human realms.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creatures previously appearing on the margins of anthropology \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as part of the landscape, as food for humans, as symbols \u00e2\u20ac\u201d have been pressed into the foreground in recent ethnographies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d write Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich in the November special issue of Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, the flagship journal of the discipline.<\/p>\n

The Fringe Festival parade<\/strong> will stop for music and refreshments at the Multispecies Salon\u00e2\u20ac\u201darriving at the Ironworks site at 2:45 pm on Saturday, November 20<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 A garden party, featuring live music by New Orleans musicians Walt McClements and Alex McMurray follows at the Ironworks that afternoon. \u00c2\u00a0The evening of Saturday, November 20 (6pm-9pm) we will present a free concert by the J.O. Evans ensemble. Cuisine from Louisiana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s swamplands\u00e2\u20ac\u201draccoon, gator, and frog legs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill be on offer from Holly Tamale as concessions throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Please visit http:\/\/www.wix.com\/multispecies\/multispecies<\/a> for a full description and schedule of the Multispecies Salon shows and related activities. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Primary contact<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Dr. Eben Kirksey, 831.600.5937, ekirksey@gc.cuny.edu<\/a>
\nMyrtle Von Damitz lll, 504.908.4741, myrtlered@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Attached pictures:<\/span>
\nThe Paranioa Bugs<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201da swarm of small clay figurines by Marnia Johnston, a sculptural embodiment of biotechnology that has gone wild\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill populate the Kawliga Studios (3331 St. Claude Ave).<\/p>\n

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The Swarm Orbs<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan interactive group of kinetic sculptures that cost $50,000 to build\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill make their debut in New Orleans at the Front Gallery (4100 St. Claude Ave.) on November 13th<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0 They will then visit the New Orleans Marriot for the American Anthropological Association conference.<\/p>\n

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Thneeds Re-seed<\/strong> is a sculptural remediation by Deanna Pindell\u00e2\u20ac\u201da series of small felted habitats, for Bryum argenteum<\/em> (Silvery Bryum) moss that will be on display at The Ironworks, (<\/em>612 Piety St.). \u00c2\u00a0As the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153first responder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in healing deforested areas, these art objects will help mosses establish basic support systems for the diverse species necessary for the restoration of devastated woodlands.\u00c2\u00a0 The original Thneeds were a commodity in Dr Seuss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, The Lorax<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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CONTACT: Dr. Eben Kirksey, 831.600.5937, ekirksey@gc.cuny.edu Myrtle Von Damitz lll, 504.908.4741, myrtlered@gmail.com http:\/\/www.wix.com\/multispecies\/multispecies October 25, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM Exhibitions to Open in New Orleans November 13, 2010 Art exhibitions centered on the relationship between humans and other creatures, The Multispecies Salon 3: Swarm, will open in the St. Claude Arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":234,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2010\/01\/14\/swarm-is-going-to-techkriti-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":253,"position":0},"title":"SWARM is going to Techkriti 2010","date":"January 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"SWARM is going to IIT Kanpur for Techkriti 2010. 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