Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 4 PM ET via Zoom
Other People’s Houses is a new book by Gordon Hall published by A.I.R. in collaboration with Walls Divide Press and commissioned for The Scalability Project. Through their practice, Hall examines the sociopolitical dynamics that arise in the bonds we develop with ourselves, objects, and each other through sculpture, performance, and writings, raising questions about the parables of the relational, personal, and political. Other People's Houses continues this exploration and consists of images taken by screengrabs of the domestic interiors behind people present with Hall in Zoom meetings during the early months of 2020, followed by a short text in which they describe their interest in capturing these tender and voyeuristic images. The PDF of Other People's Houses is available to read through The Scalability Project website and below.
The hardcopy of the publication will be for sale through the A.I.R. website. Shipping and handling are included in the final price of the sale, and the proceeds from the sales will be donated to Project EATS.
On February 13th at 4 PM we will launch the publication with a live reading event on Zoom, in which Nikita Gale, Gordon Hall, Terri Kaspalis, JoAnne McFarland, Xiomara Sebastián Castro Niculescu, Ada Potter, Aliza Shvarts and people from the audience will share a piece that sparks conversation around the feminist politics of the pandemic. Taking Other People's Houses as a point of departure, the event’s approach to the subject matter is open and expansive. Following the premise of the publication the readers will explore the feminist implications of the collapsing of the spaces of work and home, and the way this spatial non-differentiation brings renewed reflections, both critical and hopeful on the relation between the personal and the political.
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To read the publication, click here.
Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York who makes sculptures and performances. Hall has had solo presentations at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, EMPAC, and Temple Contemporary, and has been in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hessel Museum, Art in General, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, among many other venues. Hall’s writing and interviews have been published widely including in Art Journal, Artforum, Art in America, and Bomb, as well as in Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Ed Series, What About Power? Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture (published by SculptureCenter), Documents of Contemporary Art: Queer (published by Whitechapel and MIT Press), and Theorizing Visual Studies (Routledge). A volume of Hall’s collected essays, interviews, and performance scripts was published by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019. Gordon Hall was a 2019-2020 Provost Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sculpture at RISD and will be 2021 resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Gordon Hall is represented by DOCUMENT.
Project EATS is a non-profit, neighborhood-based organization that sustainably produces and distributes food and resources within and between communities across the five boroughs of New York City. Founded by Linda Goode Bryant in 2009, Project EATS brings diverse neighbors together to take agency over the use of land in their neighborhood, and to provide the tools and support for a community to develop their resources into productive spaces through art, urban farming, and social enterprise.
Walls Divide Press is a small press based in Memphis, Tennessee that publishes zines, artists' books, and multiples. WDP is curated by Corkey Sinks and Jesse Butcher.
The Scalability Project: Cacophony of Troubled Stories is an online exhibition and publication that includes artworks, texts, and interviews with and by adrienne maree brown, Anna L. Tsing, biarritzzz, Daria Dorosh, Felice Grodin, Gordon Hall, Klau Kinky, Naama Tsabar, Nahee Kim, Rebecca Jordan Young, and Tabita Rezaire. Curated by Mindy Seu, Patricia M. Hernandez and Roxana Fabius, curatorial assistance by Kyna Patel, design by WKSHPS, and edited by Andrew Scheinman.
A.I.R. Gallery is an artist-run non-profit arts organization and exhibition space founded in 1972. A.I.R. supports the open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. A self-directed governing body, the organization is an alternative to mainstream institutions and thrives on the network of active participants.