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Lessen in time
video (3:22), 3 Acetate prints with lead sinkers, 10 low fired ceramic chemistry flaks seeping iodine from the crazed glaze, paper scroll, 2023
Is a test still a test if the effects are irreversible? Since 1945 more than 2000 nuclear bombs have been detonated under the guise of military testing. Each ceramic flask represents 200 of those. Like skin, low-fire clay remains porous. Iodine seeps from the cracks, turning a haunting shade of mauve. Iodine is an element ingested to protect the thyroid in the case of a nuclear emergency. The toxicity of some materials lessen in time, others defy it.
Engaging the Margins presents the work of contemporary artists committed to experimenting in the marginal areas where artmaking, practice-based research, and scholarship intersect. Some of the selected artists stage their work in laboratory settings, some in studios, and some in wild or abandoned landscapes, but all interrogate the ways in which art is positioned in a culture that continues to marginalize artists working across disciplinary boundaries. The artists were among those featured in Jackson and LaFarge's anthology Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins (Brill, 2024), which will launch alongside the exhibition.
