Subterranean spaces and processes have garnered attention in recent intersections between philosophy and geology for their potential to ‘unground’ existing ways of thinking the earth (Woodard 2013). The underground harbors spaces of extraction and exploitation, as well as spaces and cultures of resistance (Bosworth 2013). Subterranea, a group exhibition at UCSD curated by Melinda Guillen and Elizabeth D. Miller, explores the underground (so to speak) as a site of cultural production and subversion through the work of artists who have literally, metaphorically, or aesthetically gone underground. Opening tomorrow, October 10th, 6-9 pm. See below or http://subterraneaucsd.com/ for more details.
Bosworth, Kai (2013) “Capitalism’s Underground” Paper presented at the RGS-IBS Annual International Conference, London, 28-30 August.
Woodard, Ben (2013) On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy. New York: Punctum Books.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SUBTERRANEA
sam durant | haris epaminonda | christopher kardambikis | gordon matta-clark | dominic paul miller
OCT 10, 2013 — JAN 16, 2014
Curated by Melinda Guillen & Elizabeth D. Miller
Architectural and natural environments’ root systems, foundations, and material infrastructures lay buried or concealed underground, largely unavailable to our immediate perceptual inquiries. Subterranean structures, associated with both literal and figurative conceptions of the underground, comprise the premise of the exhibition SUBTERRANEA. Notions of the subterranean are often inflected with the properties of the unknown, evoking the arcane and the afterlife. As an allegorical or psychological space, the subterranean is the site of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and Dante’s Inferno; as a plural term, “subterranea,” or “undergrounds,” signifies political (the French Resistance), social (the Underground Railroad), and economic (the 17th century English “Diggers”) counter-cultural movements. SUBTERRANEA presents imaginative responses that bridge and transcend the literal, abstract, and metaphoric in the areas of video, photography, sculpture, and works on paper.
The UC San Diego Visual Arts Department and Discursive and Curatorial Productions Initiative are pleased to present SUBTERRANEA, a group exhibition curated by Melinda Guillen and Elizabeth D. Miller.
Image Caption: Sam Durant, Entropy in Reverse (Gimme Shelter Backwards), 1999, Video, Twin channel projection, 43:01 min, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
OPENING RECEPTION: October 10, 2013 | 6 – 9pm
CLOSING RECEPTION: January 16, 2014 | 6 – 9pm
Visual Arts Gallery, SME Building University of California, San Diego
Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane
La Jolla, CA 92093
Gallery Hours: TUE — FRI, 11 – 5
DEC 10 – 13 & JAN 6 – 16 by appt.
INFO: subterraneaucsd@gmail.com
RELATED PROGRAMMING
October 10, 4 – 6pm, DCP Initiative (SME 406): Opening Reception for VOID/GRAVITY: DOMINIC PAUL MILLER, WORKS ON PAPER
October 16, 3 – 4pm, SME Visual Arts Gallery: SUBTERRANEA Exhibition Walk Through with curators Melinda Guillen and Elizabeth D. Miller
November 7, 8 – 10pm, SME Presentation Space: Screening of Gimme Shelter, 1970
November 21, 5 – 6pm, SME Presentation Space: Screenings of Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, 1978 and Gordon Matta-Clark’s Underground Dailies, 1977-2005
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