Appetite for Construction

In 2021, I was invited by the Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center to curate an installatiaion as part of the exhibition Artist-Run Spaces, coorganized by the CAC and Wavepool.

For my contribution to the exhibition, I conducted archival research on the history of artist-run project spaces in Cincinnati dating back to the 1970s, with a focus on the exhibition and performance ephemera generated by each project. From this research, I chose to curate select ephemera from private collections that I felt to be exemplary of the outstanding output of these artist-run projects. In some instances, I chose to reproduce facsimiles of printed ephemera as faithful to the original as possible. In so doing, these reproduced ephemera were open to interaction by museum goers.

My research focused on four artist-run projects: C.A.G.E., or Cincinnati Artists’ Group Effort (1978–1994); semantics (1992–2015); DiLeia Contemporary (1996–2001), and Publico (2003–2008).