January 24th, 2015

Prospect New Orleans

Entang Wiharso, Installation View at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, a Project of Prospect New Orleans, October 25, 2014 - January 25, 2015 © Scott McCrossen/ FIVE65 Design

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Adkins, Manal Al Dowayan, Tarsila do Amaral, Firelei Báez, Shigeru Ban, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Zarina Bhimji, McArthur Binion, Douglas Bourgeois, Mohamed Bourouissa, Frederick J. Brown, Huguette Caland, Keith Calhoun, Mary Ellen Carroll, Ed Clark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, William Cordova, Liu Ding, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Andrea Fraser, Charles Gaines, Theaster Gates, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson, Piero Golia, Camille Henrot, Lonnie Holley, Pieter Hugo, Yun-Fei Ji, Remy Jungerman, Glenn Kaino, Lucia Koch, Hew Lock, Los Jaichackers, Julio Cesar Morales, Eamon Ore- Girón, Sophie T. Lvoff, Kerry James Marshall, Chandra McCormick, Tameka Norris, Garrett Bradley, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ebony G. Patterson, Hayal Pozanti, The Propeller Group, Phunam, Matt Lucero, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Christopher Myers, Pushpamala N., Clare ARNI, Joe Ray, Will Ryman, Analia Saban, Lisa Sigal, Gary Simmons, Herbert Singleton, Lucien Smith, Tavares Strachan, Agus Suwage, Alma Thomas, Antonio Vega Macotela, Carrie Mae Weems, Entang Wiharso, David Zink Yi

Venues: Ashé Cultural Arts Center, AIA New Orleans, City Park, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Issac Delgado Art Gallery, Dillard University, The Exchange Gallery, Joan Mitchell Center Studios, Longue Vue House and Gardens, May Gallery & Residency, The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, New Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Newcomb Art Gallery, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Treme Market Branch, Uno St. Claude Art Gallery, The Wharf/Art Barge, Xavier University, and various sites around New Orleans

Exhibition Title: Prospect.3: Notes for Now

Curated by: Franklin Sirmans

Date: October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015

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Analia Saban, Installation View at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, a Project of Prospect New Orleans, October 25, 2014 - January 25, 2015 © Scott McCrossen/ FIVE65 Design

Lisa Sigall, Installation View Offsite for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, a Project of Prospect New Orleans, October 25, 2014 - January 25, 2015 © Scott McCrossen/ FIVE65 Design

Full gallery of videos, images, press release and link available after the jump.

Videos:

Mohamed Bourouissa, excerpt from Temps Mort, 2009. Single-channel color video, sound. Duration: 18 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

 

The Propeller Group [Phunam (b. 1974, Saigon, Vietnam), Matt Lucero (b.1976, Upland, California), and Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Saigon, Vietnam)], excerpt from The Living Need Light The Dead Need Music, 2014. Single channel video. 3840×2160. 25p. Color. 5.1 surround sound. Courtesy of the artists and Lombard Freid Gallery, New York.

 

David Zink Yi, excerpt from Horror Vacui, 2009. Two-channel HD video installation. Duration: 120 minutes. Courtesy of the artist; Johann König, Berlin; and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, London, New York.

 

Camille Henrot, excerpt from Grosse Fatigue, 2013. Video (color, sound). Duration: 13 minutes. Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

 

Images:

Images courtesy of Prospect, New Orleans. Photos by Scott McCrossen.

Press Release:

“What is the nature of the search, you ask? Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.” – Binx Bolling, The Moviegoer

In Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer, the protagonist Binx Bolling is consumed by “the search” in the week leading up to his thirtieth birthday. Pointedly, the birthday falls on Ash Wednesday—the day after the most important holiday in New Orleans, Mardi Gras. Though Binx’s attendance at the carnival is peripheral, there’s much to be learned from his vantage point at the margins of the crowd. Bolling, a solitary moviegoer, lives his life on the margin, slowly creeping closer to the center as he embraces “the search.” He begins the book in the isolated suburbs of New Orleans, comfortably away, and apart from other people’s lives, but finds solace in the contested city by its end. The novel, set in a time of heightened social awareness in the first half of the decade’s movement for civil rights in America, delves into the depths of existentialism in a world where people were legally segregated from each other, making it impossible to celebrate the individual. “The peculiar institution” of slavery and immigration during the 18th century created a city that, even in 1961, was a complex social arrangement, one that remains palpable today. The third Prospect biennial (P.3) is invested in and will explore ‘the search’ to find the self and the necessity of the other as part of that quest.

It is New Orleans’ distinct history that makes it an illuminating source of philosophical inquiry for the present. Percy, a student of Soren Kierkegaard and acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre, was attempting to “explore the dislocation of man in the modern age,” and certainly the physical and psychological violence we do to each other is one of the continuing facets of our species’ ‘dislocation.’ The “search” in Prospect.3 (P.3) also aims to further explore a philosophical inquiry on humanity, an effort to interrogate human feelings and human relationships. Recognizing the position of P.3 as a biennial‐type exhibition for the United States—passionately committed to being international in scope and weary of geographic location as something that is increasingly interchangeable in today’s world of contemporary art—Prospect.3 is, in the mode of past Prospect projects, vitally committed to the city of New Orleans. Placed at the foot of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans’ influx of people has been remarkable in its diversity, and unlike any other American city. As a node for thinking through global issues, New Orleans offers an example that is revelatory, generative and frictional.

Guided by several curatorial themes, P.3’s exhibitions, site‐specific installations and new works will address: The New Orleans Experience, Seeing Oneself in the Other, The South, Crime and Punishment, Movie going, The Carnivalesque, Abstraction, Visual Sound, and will seamlessly tie together the largesse of the show through commissions by several artists under the moniker, All Together Now.

Link: Prospect New Orleans

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