Exhibition
Overview
Dates:
Friday, October 15–Sunday, October 17
10:00am–6:00pm CST Daily
Participating Artists:
Christian Falsnaes (DK), Max Guy (US), Minna Henriksson (FI), Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (DK), Ingela Ihrman (SE), Toril Johannessen (NO) & Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Cheryl Pope (US), Wang & Söderström (SE/DK), Amanda Williams (US), and Michael x Ryan (US). Curated by the Floating Museum (Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, and Avery R. Young, US).
Curatorial Statement:
Shifting from the space of a modern art museum and repurposing a format generally used for mobile advertisement, the LED exhibition program for The Chicago Edition will visit locations across Chicago ranging from major art institutions, community spaces, a vehicle emission testing site, and historical spaces across the south, west, and north sides. The mobile exhibition format builds upon a concept of using the ‘space of flows, positioning a curatorial endeavor beyond a static brick-and-mortar presentation. Imagining possibilities for mobility, geography, and mapping networks, the gesture of the exhibition exists in the continuum of artists examining their1
Responding symbiotically to the evolution of museums — ranging from the cabinet of curiosities, or Wunderkrammer, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; transitioning to the dense accumulations of time-capsule vitrines in the nineteenth century; to the complete contrast of the contemporary art space — Floating Museum’s framework addresses how we view artwork in sustainable ways. Mobile in nature, the presentation of selected artists from the initial full exhibition at the Malmö Art Museum investigates issues of urban landscape and social geography to create juxtapositions and complimentary moments between the Nordic and American artists’ contexts in a moment where international travel is still limited.
1 - James Putnam, Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium (New York: Thames and Hudson 2001)
