Kerry Downey. Still from Fishing with Angela.

ROT: Compost vs. Surgery

Single channel video and sound screening in Plestcheeff Auditorium at Seattle Art Museum

Festival Program

Curated by S. Surface and Molly Mac


ROT: COMPOST VS. SURGERY links a tradition of strong material physicality and visceral painterly aesthetics explored in SAM’s Big Picture exhibition to urgent contemporary conversations about bodies, aging, identity, and health. In ROT, artists revisit, reinterpret and expand the scope of performative image-making processes of the Vienna Actionists, post-minimalist artist who made work about the body in landscape, feminist performance artists and Abstract Expressionists.

Proximity to SAM’s Big Picture exhibition raises the question: are ROT artists engaged in process of composting the canon of art history or are these works a more surgical intervention/redirection of those narratives? 
 

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Artist List

Kerry Downey
On A Clear Day
Indira Allegra
Urban Death Project
C. Davida Ingram

Additional artists to be announced.

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Partner

Seattle Art Museum

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