{"id":2771,"date":"2019-10-25T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2019-10-25T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T03:24:15","slug":"plastic-entanglements-exhibition-opening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/plastic-entanglements-exhibition-opening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“Plastic Entanglements” \u2013 Exhibition Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IFF is a participating artist in the traveling exhibition Plastic Entanglements: Ecology Aethsetics Materials<\/em>\u00a0at the Palmer Museum of Art, University of\u00a0Pennsylvania:\u00a0February 13\u2013June 17th, 2018<\/p>\n

Plastic Entanglements: Ecology Aethsetics Materials<\/em> is a traveling exhibition about humanity\u2019s relationship with plastic curated by Joyce Robison, Jennifer Wagner-Lawler and Heather Davis.\u00a0After the Palmer Museum, the exhibition will travel to\u00a0Smith College Museum of Art,\u00a0the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon), and the Chazen Museum of Art (University of Madison-Wisconsin). For the show, the IFF has created has several new plastic hyperbolic crochet sculptural works. Also in the exhibition are two large totemic works by IFF co-director Christine Wertheim constructed from discarded electrical cables and found plastic debris.<\/p>\n

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“Plastic Fantastic 1” by Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, with black JellyYarn sea creature by Arlene Mintzer. From cover of Palmer Museum of Art catalog, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n

About the Exhibition:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story of plastic is as complex as the polymer chains that make up its unique material properties. Plastic Entanglements\u00a0brings together 60 works by 30 contemporary artists to explore the environmental, aesthetic and technological entanglements of our ongoing love affair with this paradoxical, infinitely malleable substance.\u00a0Organized by the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, this major loan exhibition features work by an international roster of emerging and mid-career artists.\u00a0Visitors will encounter a varied array of artwork, from meticulous drawings, photographs and video installations to 3D-printed objects and sculptures fabricated from found plastic.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Plastic Entanglements<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>unfolds in three sections \u2014\u00a0The Archive;\u00a0Entangled Present; and Speculative Future\u00a0\u2014 charting a timeline-past, present and future-of our ongoing engagement with this ubiquitous manmade material.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Curators:<\/strong> Joyce Robison, Jennifer Wagner-Lawler and Heather Davis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Participating Artists:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moresin\u00a0Allahyari, Ifeoma U. Anyaeji, Han Bing, Dianna Cohen, Willie Colem Bonnie Collura, Gisela Colon, Emmanuel\u00a0Bakery Daou, Mark Dion, Katrin Hornek, Kelly Jazvac, Chris Jordan, Brian Jungen, Pamela Longobardi, Steve McPherson, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz, Mathew Northridge, Ausora Robson, Evelyn Rydz, Tejal Shah,\u00a0Jessica Stockolder, Rebecca Strzelec, Ann Tarantino, Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, Deb Todd Wheeler, Kelly Wood, Pinar\u00a0Yolas, Marina Zurkow.<\/i><\/p>\n

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“Chthulcene 1” by Christine Wertheim, made from scavenged electrical cables and found plastic debris.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IFF is a participating artist in the traveling exhibition Plastic Entanglements: Ecology Aethsetics Materials\u00a0at the Palmer Museum of Art, University of\u00a0Pennsylvania:\u00a0February 13\u2013June 17th, 2018 Plastic Entanglements: Ecology Aethsetics Materials is a traveling exhibition about humanity\u2019s relationship with plastic curated by Joyce Robison, Jennifer Wagner-Lawler and Heather Davis.\u00a0After the Palmer Museum, the exhibition will travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}