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Exhibitions CURRENT: The Crochet Coral Reef is constantly on display. See here for current, future, and past exhibitions of the Crochet Coral Reef. PAST: PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials TRADE MARKINGS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed. No. 5 EXPLODE EVERY DAY: An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Wonder Crochet Coral Reef
Crochet Coral Reef Night Begins the Day Crochet Coral Reef Crochet Coral Reef making space Science + Art Residency: Being Formed An Alternative Guide to the Universe Out of Fashion making space Physics on the Fringe Mosely Snowflake Sponge Exhibition Midden Project The Logic Alphabet of Shea Zellweger IFF Inventing Kindergarten Hyperbolic Cactus Garden + Hyperbolic Kelp Garden The Business Card Menger Sponge Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane Philosophical Toys Lithium Legs and Apocalyptic Photons
Crochet Coral Reef Exhibitions Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish, and Reason Crochet Reef Crochet Reef The IFF "Bleached Reef" Crochet Cactus Garden Crochet Reef Crochet Reef Show New York and Chicago Reefs UK Reef Tour Plastic Exploding Inevitable Reef Crochet Reef Symposium Crochet Reef Crochet Reef The Crochet Cactus Garden The Crochet Cactus Garden The Crochet Coral Reef The Crochet Coral Reef
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PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: Ecology, Aesthetics, MaterialsThe IFF is delighted to be part of the major traveling exhibition PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials. Plastic Entanglements is curated by Joyce Robinson, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Heather Davis. Exhibition Venues and Dates:
Plastic Fantastic 1 by Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring About the Exhibition The story of plastic is as complex as the polymer chains that make up its unique material properties. Plastic Entanglements brings together sixty works by thirty contemporary artists to explore the environmental, aesthetic, and technological entanglements of our ongoing love affair with this paradoxical, infinitely malleable substance. Both miraculous and malignant, ephemeral yet relentlessly present, plastic infiltrates our global networks, our planet, and even our bodies. Organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, this major exhibition features work by an international roster of emerging and mid-career artists, including Mark Dion, Pamela Longobardi, Marina Zurkow, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz, Jessica Stockholder, Chris Jordan, Aurora Robson, Pinar Yoldas, the Institute For Figuring, and Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Plastic Entanglements unfolds in three sections, charting a timeline—past, present, and future—of our ongoing engagement with this ubiquitous manmade material. The Archive examines the ways in which plastic objects make up an inadvertent record of daily life from the mid-twentieth century onwards. The Entangled Present reveals the ways in which plastic binds people, plants, and animals together across diverse geographical locations and through global systems. The exhibition concludes with a section dedicated to Speculative Futures, asking what unknown worlds are emerging from the omnipresence of plastic, including new geologic and biologic forms. At right, Plastic Fantastic 1 & 2 (by Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring), Chthulence 1 & 2 by Christine Wertheim. Installed at the Palmer Museum of Art, 2018. IFF works in the show include two newly created vitrines of plastic crochet sea-forms. IFF co-director Christine Wertheim also has two stunning works constructed from discarded computer and electrical cables. This exhibition was made possible by funds from the Donald W. Hamer Endowment for Art Acquisitions and Exhibitions. Major support was provided by The Arboretum at Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture, Materials Research Institute, Sustainability Institute, University Libraries, George Dewey and Mary J. Krumrine Endowment, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Plastic Entanglements exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art.
Chthulucene 1 and Chthulucene 2 by Christine Wertheim. (Discarded electrical and computer cables and found plastic debris, crocheted together with vinyl JellyYarn. H 45".) |
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