A CONVERSATION
The free public-facing conversation event took place on Sunday 03.20.22 and is being shared virtually, resulting in an archive that will remain on view through our Vimeo Channel.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Parallel to the exhibition Ground: Zero, Edge Zones hosted a conversation with John William Bailly, Peter Hosfeld, Carol Jazzar, Christina Pettersson , Onajide Shabaka, Asser Saint-Val and Magnus Sodamin moderated by Amy Galpin, Chief Curator FIU, Frost Museum. It seeks to initiate novel connections and dynamic conversations around art, activism, and ecological thinking, conducive to mobilizing creative collaboration in this region and beyond.
The term Anthropocene is the proposed geological epoch that follows from the Holocene in which scientists say we have significantly altered the Earth through human activity. As humans have gone from being biological agents, (affecting their immediate environment) to geological agents with direct impact on weather patterns and planetary biodiversity, we need a new way of understanding our present and future place on the planet.
The term Ground: Zero refers to South Florida’s particular situation of being a bellwether for either climate resilience or climate catastrophe given our vulnerability to sea level rise, heat waves and strengthening storms amidst rampant development. The exhibition was conceived as a way of showcasing how different local artists thematically incorporate the natural world, both as idea and place, into their art. The conversation focused on how these issues affect us as artists, and whether art has a role to play in affecting consciousness of the matter.
Curator: Peter Hosfeld
Moderator: Amy Galpin
Participating Artists: Jason Aponte | John William Bailly | Peter Hosfeld | Carol Jazzar | Christina Pettersson | Onajide Shabaka | Asser Saint-Val | Magnus Sodamin | Fereshteh Toosi
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Amy Galpin
Is the Chief Curator at the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami. She is formerly the Curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum of Rollins College and Associate Curator, Art of the Americas at the San Diego Museum of Art. In addition to exhibitions at these institutions she has also curated exhibitions for Oolite Arts, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Pasadena Museum of California Art; and the Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando. Her exhibitions include solo projects with artists Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Patrick Martinez, Hugo Crosthwaite, Robert Andy Coombs, Jess T. Dugan, and Liu Shiyuan, among others.