| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| Faculty Preview: Spring at TUAG |
| Oct 25, 2024 |
| Looking Ahead to 2025 |
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Dear Colleagues, It’s hard to believe we’re nearly halfway through the Fall 2024 semester! It has been a pleasure to welcome so many of you and your students into the Galleries and engage the Tufts and broader communities with our season of programming, which will continue through December 8. With October coming to a close, we find ourselves looking ahead to our Winter/Spring 2025 season. We are pleased to present two exhibitions examining the dynamic relationship connecting time-based practice, performance, and their radical capacity for transformation. Our Medford galleries will feature Impossible Music (January 16 – April 20, 2024), a survey of the sonic vanguard showcasing sculptures, sounds, scores, video, and live performances exploring the interdisciplinary potential of conceptual and experimental music, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist Raven Chacon and Forge Project Executive Director and Chief Curator Candice Hopkins. In Boston, an archive and/or a repertoire (January 29 – April 11, 2025) will explore the liminal spaces that emerge between archives and ephemeral new media. This exhibition will feature the Mobius, Inc. Collection—the administrative archive of the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group––alongside works and activations by the current Mobius Artist Group members, oral histories from members throughout its fifty-year legacy, and commissions by performance artists Lani Asunción, Forbes Graham, Aki Sasamoto, and Takahiro Yamamoto. These two exhibitions, which probe the archive and push the boundaries of what sound and performance can embody, are ripe for interdisciplinary exploration. Keep an eye out for the full Faculty Connection email later in the semester which will include our seasonal Education Guides and supplementary resources. For now, we invite you to learn more about our upcoming season below and browse our current exhibitions and programming at artgalleries.tufts.edu. Thank you, Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, Curator and Director, Collective Futures Fund Liz Canter, Manager of Academic Programs |
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Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year! We are excited to open our spring exhibitions in a few weeks and while you are putting the finishing touches on your spring syllabi, I wanted to share information about the season’s offerings. Impossible Music will be on view at our Medford galleries from January 16-April 20, 2025 and an archive and/or a repertoire will be on view at our SMFA/Boston galleries from January 29-April 20, 2025. These dynamic exhibitions showcase a range of media – from video and sound installations to sculpture and drawings – but both are considering individual and collaborative performance. By mining archives and rethinking definitions of performative media, artists in these exhibitions highlight the power of art to explore systemic patterns of inequity and build community through collective practice. I invite you to consider how engaging with current exhibitions and/or the Permanent Collection might enhance your learning objectives. Gallery exercises and public programming connect via a range of relevant topics and can be used as suggested or required assignments to offer additional perspectives to course content. We can work together to customize a session that prompts discussion and/or object-based inquiry to develop transferable skills in a non-classroom environment. Additionally, you can browse our Permanent Collection online or utilize one of our Collection Guides below to identify works that directly suit your curricula or research interest – with advance notice many pieces can be pulled for individual or small class groups, offering intimate viewing and study opportunities. Below you will find resources to help get you started. Please contact me for additional information and to brainstorm ideas. If you are uncertain about where to begin or how to connect with your courses, I can share models of past collaborations as inspiration. Mark your calendars for our opening events – celebrating Impossible Music with a performance of Aki Onda’s Spirits Known and Unknown (2023) on January 16th in Medford and an archive and/or a repertoire with a newly commissioned performance by Forbes Graham on January 29th at the SMFA/Boston. Best, Liz Canter Manager of Academic Programs Spring Exhibitions & Teaching Resources Multi-Season Preview – Spring 2025 and Fall 2025 Impossible Music Press Release Impossible Music Preview Slides an archive and/or a repertoire Press Release an archive and/or a repertoire Brochure Pitt News Article about Impossible Music (2023) History of Mobius Artists Group on their website Impossible Music Education Guide an archive and/or a repertoire Education Guide General Resources Archive of Past Exhibitions’ Education Guides Land Acknowledgment Learning Resource Language Learning with/in the Galleries Search the Permanent Collection Online Collection Guide: Adorning the Body |
| Exhibition • Medford • January 16, 2025 – April 20, 2025 |
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Impossible Music calls attention to the transformative power of sound as a tool for social change, innovation, and empowerment. From the banned to the bombastic, this exhibition highlights the work of visionary artists who pushed music forward, defying norms and piloting new forms of expression. Featuring work across mediums by boundary-defying composers, artists, and collectives including Terry Adkins, Black Quantum Futurism, Nikita Gale, Sarah Hennies, Tom Johnson, Aki Onda, Christine Sun Kim, and Spencer C. Yeh, Impossible Music will also present a record listening station with underground recordings of songs rendered illegal under Potlatch Bans, which outlawed Native North American ceremonies in the United States and Canada. Shown together, the works in the exhibition address the complexity of music and moments in human history that led to the creation of new sounds, including the sound of resistance. |
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| Exhibition • Boston • January 29, 2025 – April 20, 2025 |
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an archive and/or a repertoire questions the boundaries and limits of the archive, through what performance studies scholar Diana Taylor understands as its embodied counterpoint, the repertoire. The exhibition is organized in four research threads that activate a potential remapping of the archive in light of the repertoire—Deep Time, Siting Place, Horizontal Collectivity, and Document / Residue—featuring photos, posters, newsletters, and other physical materials from the Mobius, Inc. Collection at TARC. Responses by Mobius Artist Group members and new contributors to the archive also include oral histories from artists, activists, and cultural workers adjacent to Mobius, video documentation of the group’s early performance works, and ongoing public programming. Altogether, the exhibition components pose a challenge to the legacy of the material archive while also activating the collective imaginary of the repertoire—gestures, spoken word, movement, dance, sounds—that might otherwise be lost, erased, or forgotten. |
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Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year! We are excited to open our spring exhibitions in a few weeks and while you are putting the finishing touches on your spring syllabi, I wanted to share information about the season’s offerings. Impossible Music will be on view at our Medford galleries from January 16-April 20, 2025 and an archive and/or a repertoire will be on view at our SMFA/Boston galleries from January 29-April 20, 2025. These dynamic exhibitions showcase performance and sound through a range of media – from video and sound installations to sculpture and drawings. By mining archives and rethinking definitions of performative media, artists in these exhibitions highlight the power of art to explore systemic patterns of inequity and build community through collective practice. Curated by Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon and originally organized by the ICA Pittsburgh (formerly Miller ICA), Impossible Music brings together work by Nikita Gale, Christine Sun Kim, C. Spencer Yeh, and Conlon Nancarrow, calling attention to the transformative power of sound as a tool for social change, innovation and empowerment. an archive and/or a repertoire features the administrative archive of Boston-based Mobius Artists Group, whose records are currently housed in Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) and chronicles the early work of individual members and the artist-run organization founded by influential former SMFA Performance faculty Marilyn Arsem, alongside contemporary commissions and oral histories in response to the archive. I invite you to consider how engaging with current exhibitions and/or the Permanent Collection might enhance your learning objectives. Gallery exercises and public programming connect via a range of relevant topics and can be used as suggested or required assignments to offer additional perspectives to course content. We can work together to customize a session that prompts discussion and/or object-based inquiry to develop transferable skills in a non-classroom environment. Additionally, you can browse our Permanent Collection online or utilize one of our Collection Guides below to identify works that directly suit your curricula or research interest – with advance notice many pieces can be pulled for individual or small class groups, offering intimate viewing and study opportunities. Below you will find resources to help get you started. Please contact me for additional information and to brainstorm ideas. If you are uncertain about where to begin or how to connect with your courses, I can share models of past collaborations as inspiration. Mark your calendars for our opening events – celebrating Impossible Music with a performance of Aki Onda’s Spirits Known and Unknown (2023) and tour with curators Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon on January 16th in Medford and an archive and/or a repertoire with a newly commissioned performance by Forbes Graham on January 29th at the SMFA/Boston. |
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