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Photos from November 1, Gallery Hop

November 1, 2008

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November 1st marked the first incarnation of the SoapBox Lecture Series. Taking place at the Columbus Ohio Gallery Hop, it was successfully unexpected. The IMA Gallery travelled down the bustling street, starting at 1045 N. High and ending up on the corner of 1st Ave, picking up watchers and listeners as we moved along. A big thank to both the participants and viewers on this beautiful fall evening.


The Participants

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James Voorhies


James Voorhies is an art historian and curator and currently director of the Bureau for Open Culture at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Previously, he was deputy director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He also served as an administrator in curatorial departments at the Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.


Voorhies has taught art history at Parsons The New School for Design and the San Francisco Art Institute. His published works includes an edited compilation of letters between two American modernists, contributions to the Timeline of Art History, an online resource produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and exhibition catalogue essays.


For the SoapBox Lecture Series, he read an essay on the Derive. French writer and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, living in a complex city but treading the same path every day, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way. This led to the notion that most of our cities were so thoroughly unpleasant because they were designed in a way that either ignored their emotional impact on people, or indeed tried to control people through their very design. The basic premise of the idea is for people to explore their environment ("psychogeography") without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence.


For information on these topics, please visit The Bureau of Public Secrets website, where you can find plenty of essays by Guy Debord and other Situationists.


Hannah Barnes


Hannah Barnes was born in Bridgewater Massachusettes and currently lives in Muncie, Indiana. Barnes received her BFA degree in painting from Maine College of Art and her MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally including Work Gallery in New York NY, Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio, Hay Gallery in Portland Maine, Hello Gallery in New Haven Connecticut, Arthouse Contemporary in Austin Texas, and the Shore Institute for Contemporary Art in Long Branch, New Jersey. Barnes has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Ohio State University, Kent State University, and Maine College of Art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at Ball State University.


While in the SoapBox Lecture Space, Barnes read and spoke about several poems by Henri Michaux, from the book DARKNESS MOVES. Henri Michaux (May 24, 1899 - October 18, 1984) was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.



Irina Arnaut, Anya Adler, Emelia Hiltner


Irina Arnaut, Anya Adler, and Emelia Hiltner are NYU Graduates, who are currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Their work ranges from ceramics to new media. Their performance at the SoapBox Lecture Series was their first collaborative effort. Many passersby stopped to watch as Arnaut soaked white briefs (men’s underpants) in a metal pail full of cold water. With full force, she threw the underwear at Adler, shouting “Is this what you want?” Adler stood quite still, becoming equally emotional and drenched through the performance. In the meantime, Hiltner ran back and forth, gathering the underwear and laying flat to dry behind the other 2 performers.

Exploring themes of sexuality, friendship, love, and the general strains of relationships is nothing new to these artists in their personal work, which can be made available by contacting The IMA Gallery at theimagallery@gmail.com.