Massacre of the Innocents and Rehearsal are included in UNLOADED, a group show organized by Susanne Slavick that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture.
Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
September 5 - October 26, 2017
Curator's Lecture, Thursday, September 14, 6PM, Campus Center Ballroom A
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 7PM, Harris Gallery
Swamp Accommodations VI from the DRAIN cycle appears in Hyperallergic, August 5, 2017.
November 7, 2017 –January 31, 2018
The Fed Galleries @ KCAD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Opening Reception: November 7, 5-7pm
Artists Talk: November 7, 6:30pm
Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, as part of Back to Athens 5, Athens, Greece, June 8 -30, 2017
http://cheapart.gr/gateway-to-freedom-back-to-athens-2017/
CHOKE: WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017
Wooden baseball bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
The original version was made in 1998 but is now lost. Reconstructed in 2017.
Glass eyes courtesy of Tohickon Glass Eyes with special thanks to Antonio Alfaro.
On June 17, 1999, National Public Radio reported on British paratroopers who had found a baseball bat in a torture chamber in Pristina, Kosovo. The bat was inscribed with the label "mouth-shutter.”
The existence of torture and its tools persists, despite so many eyewitness accounts and exposes. It is practiced before, during and after wars, overtly and covertly. Those it would harm flee if they can, joining refugees who seek a fundamental safety that home and state no longer provide. Borders define who lives and dies as we watch, eyes wide open. Witnessing without action is the choke—vision squandered and humanity abandoned amongst the rhetorical handwringing.
“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news.”
― Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
A work from the Pipe Dreams series is included in Personals at Skowhegan New York Space, 136 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, May 4 – June 8, 2017.
http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/#/pipe-dreams1/
https://www.skowheganart.org/personals-exhibit/
"Sam I Am" is included in the Post-Truth issue, in the inaugural issue of American Flytrap, edited by Ryan Standfest and published by Rotland Press.
http://rotlandpress.com/store-1/
