Poor and Needy
@ The Great Poor Farm Experiment
E6325 County Highway BB, Manawa , WI 54949
On view through Monday, August 7th
Inspired by Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York, Poor & Needy will explore various economies of creative compassion. Housed in a former debtors farm, it engages its site to reflect on ideas related to cooperation, migration and debt.
The exhibition occupies two floors of the Poor Farm with an upstairs “biblioteque” and basement “discoteque,” to underscore how these issues must be actuated both in the archive and in the club, to capture our hearts as well our minds.
Migration implies collaboration, and the need to recognize our interconnectedness, to address systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. Debt and economic liberalization turns the previously mentioned social and political movement(s) into profitable economical entities within debt relations. As artists we rely on each other to forge bonds and collaborations, but what does it mean to be in debt; to whom are we indebted, and who will hold us accountable – society, community, the canon, a legally binding contract, or merely our own moral code?
Poor & Needy brings together a disparate group of artists from Scandinavia and from the American Midwest, using landscape, locality and (shared) history to examine artistic ecologies in various forms, from artist-run spaces, collaborations, and publications, to the cooperative continuum between people in nature.
Featuring work from Rashayla Marie Brown, Kirsten Dufour / Mobil Kultur Bureau,Jim Duignan / Stockyard Institute,Michelle Eistrup,Anja Franke, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Hannah Heilmann,Anni Holm,Ulla Hvejsel,Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jenny Kendler, Kurt Finsten/Krabbesholm Højskole, Kirsten Leenaars, Sofia Leiby, Tony Lewis, Josh Mittelman, Matt Morris, Skovsnogen, Edra Soto, The Third Rail, Andrew Yang & Christa Donner / Cultural ReProducers.
The exhibition in Manawa will be followed up by a series of exhibitions and events to take place in various artist-run venues in Denmark in the summer of 2017.
The third, and final part of the project will consist of a publication, co-published by Poor Farm Press and Krabbeshiolm Højskole, including documentation of the exhibition(process) as well as reflective texts by Lise Haller Baggesen, Yvette Brackman, invited scholars, and exhibiting artists.
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Tags: Andrew Yang, Anja Franke, Anni Holm, Christa Donner, Cultural ReProducers, Edra Soto, Hannah Heilmann, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jenny Kendler, Jim Duignan, Josh Mittelman, Kirsten Dufour, Kirsten Leenaars, Krabbesholm Højskole, Kurt Finsten, Lise HALLER BAGGESEN, Manawa, Matt Morris, Michelle Eistrup, Mobil Kultur Bureau, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Poor & Needy, Rashayla Marie Brown, Skovsnogen, Sofia Leiby, Stockyard Institute, The Great Poor Farm Experiment, The Third Rail, Tony Lewis, Ulla Hvejsel, WI, Yvette Brackman
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