Paperback, 9 x 11, 72 pages. Full color.
A catalog documenting an exhibition of work by more than 50 international artists, co-curated by artist Carla Gannis and gallerist, Clark Buckner, in the Fall of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter Protests, and the crisis of the republic.
Featuring work by: by Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Alicia Escott, Antonio Roberts, Auriea Harvey, Bayeté Ross Smith, Caroline Sinders, Christina Corfield, Clareese Hill, Claudia Hart, Danielle Siembieda, Darrin Martin, David Bayus, Faith Holland, Faiyaz Jafri, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Genevieve Quick, Gretta Louw, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Jamel (Jam No Peanut) MC-Ting Budong, Jenifer Wofford, LaJuné McMillian, Laura Gillmore, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Laura Splan, Leila Weefur, Liss Lafleur, Lorna Mills, Lynn Marie Kirby and James Kirby Rogers, Mads Lynnerup, Maggie Roberts [Orphan Drift], Mark Amerika, Mark Klink, Martina Menegon, Mary Flanagan, Minoosh (Raheleh) Zomorodinia, Mohsen Hazrati, Molly Soda, Noth (Qinyuan) Liu, Penelope Umbrico, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, R. Luke DuBois, Ranu Mukherjee [Orphan Drift], Rosa Menkman, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Sean Capone, Shaghayegh Cyrous, shawné michaelain holloway, Sherie Weldon, Snow Yunxue Fu, Surabhi Saraf, Susan Silas, Tamiko Thiel, Tiare Ribeaux, Yuliya Lanina.
When COVID-19 hit, New York artist Carla Gannis was working with curator Clark Buckner, finishing the installation of her exhibition; wwwunderkammer at San Francisco’s Telematic Media Arts. The pandemic interrupted their plans, and the show sat empty for 6 months. During that time, Carla and Clark curated The Archive to Come, an exhibition of short time-based works by more than fifty artists from across the country and the world, presented simultaneously in three different formats: as a gallery show in meat space, as a series of screenings on the gallery’s website, and as an exhibition of still images from the time-based works in an online virtual reality (VR) gallery built by Carla.
The Archive to Come invited a broad field of artists to construct and share archives of their own, to reflect upon the correlative issues of historical trauma and displacement, and to consider how the digitalization of memory has changed the experience of what we remember—indeed, memory and experience themselves.
The result was an exhibition addressing loss, memorialization, crisis, and reinvention, through the lens of contemporary networked culture and digital media.
Works in the show were, and in the catalog are, organized into five categories, including: 1) COVID-19, 2) History, Conflict, and Social Justice, 3) New Sensibilities: Cyborg Eco-Feminism, 4) Digital Culture, Surveillance, and the Afterlife; and 5) Speculative Fictions: Past and Future.
