Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
March 3rd -31st
Opening Reception with Alex Callender, Sarah Stefana Smith and Curator Amy Halliday • March 3, 5-7pm
Opening Reception with Alex Callender, Sarah Stefana Smith and Curator Amy Halliday • March 3, 5-7pm
After Archives
Alex Callender • Sarah Stefana Smith • Wendel White
What happened between or out of or in the holes of the story is the real story…
-Lauren Russell, Descent
-Lauren Russell, Descent
Traditional archives – documents, images, objects – are commonly understood as physical sites in which historical knowledge and memory are collected, organized, and preserved. Archives convey a certain air of authority, of neutrality, of completeness: of the record as somehow transparent, given, fixed. Yet bound up in issues of power and posterity, archives embody the ongoing entanglement of social and historical relations: What is collected, cherished, sought after, ignored? Who and what is made present, salient; what slips between the cracks, into the silences? And how do these choices shape future conditions for navigating the past?
After Archives brings together the work of three artists -- Alex Callender, Sarah Stefana Smith, and Wendel White -- who engage archival practices, content, and forms to examine, unearth, interrogate, and reimagine aspects of African American history and experience. In Manifest, Wendel White finds and photographs, in detail simultaneously intimate and monumental, embodied traces of America’s interwoven histories of slavery, abolitionism, segregation, and civil rights in archives across the nation: a lock of Frederick Douglass’s hair; a hand-drawn map of Eatonville, Florida, one of the oldest Black-incorporated municipalities in the United States. Working with New England archival collections (including the W.E.B. Du Bois papers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Callender explores historic land and housing policies that continue to impact communities of color. And, through permeable sculpture and installation made from “threshold” materials, Smith gives form to the interplay of absence and presence in historical records, finding and making space for untold stories, for affect and emotion. Each artist charts a course “between or out of or in the holes” of the archive, navigating the ways in which space, bodies, material traces, and forms of (un)freedom intersect.
After Archives is curated by Amy Halliday
After Archives brings together the work of three artists -- Alex Callender, Sarah Stefana Smith, and Wendel White -- who engage archival practices, content, and forms to examine, unearth, interrogate, and reimagine aspects of African American history and experience. In Manifest, Wendel White finds and photographs, in detail simultaneously intimate and monumental, embodied traces of America’s interwoven histories of slavery, abolitionism, segregation, and civil rights in archives across the nation: a lock of Frederick Douglass’s hair; a hand-drawn map of Eatonville, Florida, one of the oldest Black-incorporated municipalities in the United States. Working with New England archival collections (including the W.E.B. Du Bois papers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Callender explores historic land and housing policies that continue to impact communities of color. And, through permeable sculpture and installation made from “threshold” materials, Smith gives form to the interplay of absence and presence in historical records, finding and making space for untold stories, for affect and emotion. Each artist charts a course “between or out of or in the holes” of the archive, navigating the ways in which space, bodies, material traces, and forms of (un)freedom intersect.
After Archives is curated by Amy Halliday
BIG INK RETURNS • April 1st + 2nd
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Suzanne Wright with DRESS
The LAB at APE • 2022-2023
Photos from Love and Depositions, conceived and directed by Marina Zurita, Acadia Barrengos, and Mollye Maxner. Photos by Marina Zurita
The Lab at APE is a research and residency program for emerging local, national, and international transdisciplinary performance makers / designers. The 2022-23 LAB will bring together 6 artists with a focus on the craft and creative practice of new work with a focus on text/theater/dramaturgy. This year's LAB artists will be announced soon!
Questions about the LAB at APE? Reach out to Mollye Maxner: mollyemaxner@apearts.org, 413-586-5553
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