Search Party (2020)
found photograph, frames, table and chairs, books found and notes generated over course of exhibit
found photograph, frames, table and chairs, books found and notes generated over course of exhibit
Above: Search Party, installation view
A month long attempt to find the prop-books from a 1972 amateur production of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit based on an out-of-focus deaccessioned slide of the set. During exhibit hours, the artist would either be in the library looking for books with some resemblance to those featured, or in the gallery reading and taking notes on the found texts. The public was welcomed to join in the search for books and meaning.
A month long attempt to find the prop-books from a 1972 amateur production of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit based on an out-of-focus deaccessioned slide of the set. During exhibit hours, the artist would either be in the library looking for books with some resemblance to those featured, or in the gallery reading and taking notes on the found texts. The public was welcomed to join in the search for books and meaning.
