Positive or Zero: Long Distance Collaboration
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, August 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 21st
Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE) is pleased to present Positive or Zero: Long Distance Collaboration, curated by Zach Clark and Sara J. Winston. This group exhibition features a selection of artists making work in relationship with distance, showcasing collaborations over time and with time; work made with elders, ancestors, and past selves; the labor that goes into hiding labor; and projects about the places we once were and the resilient ways we figure out where we are going next.
Clark and Winston state that, “To be an artist who works in any form of collaboration requires a level of comfort with distance. At the bare minimum, an artist must be willing to remove their ego, at least to some extent, as the project is no longer solely theirs but a product of multiple minds and practices. It is rare that collaborative projects occur in a single fixed location with the makers working side-by-side; an expansion of time and space is almost always integral to collaborative work. One must be willing to approach the work in the only way distance can be measured, as positive or zero, never negative. The work will either progress or it will never be made at all.”
Positive or Zero: Long Distance Collaboration provides a breadth of ideas for approaching the world today and tomorrow. We must be willing to work together and to learn from each other and from our histories, even slowly, if we have any hope of moving forward.
Featured Artists: Frey Michael Austin, Matthew Austin (For the Birds Trapped in Airports), Lois Bielefeld, Andi Crist, Camila Leiva, Liz Roberts, Jamie Robertson, lee rae walsh
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