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Fire Season Opening Reception
October 12 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
Opening Reception
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Join us for the Opening Reception of our fall exhibition Fire Season, whose artists approach arboreal cycles of devastation and regeneration from the elemental lens of fire, and the accompanying performance program Pining Away, where our host Alex Tartarsky will guide us through an immersive afternoon of outdoor performance inspired by the Schuylkill Center’s magical Pine Grove featuring dancer and lichen lover David Guzman and writer/choreographer Jonathan González. Performances will depart from the gallery at 3:30pm.
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Pining Away: Eco-Readings in the Pine Grove
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Alex Tatarsky’s accompanying performance program Pining Away offers an embodied, immersive, and informative experience of the Pine Grove as a space of life, death, and rebirth. As MC, Tatarsky will lead us on a journey from the gallery to Pine Grove, playing with the idea of a host as an ecological concept, such as how a dead tree becomes host to many animals, or a log becomes host to fungi. They will invite lichen lover David Guzman and writer/choreographer Jonathan González to take the forest floor through an experimental composition of dance, poetry, music, and theater.
More about Fire Season:
Fire Season brings together artists attuned to the intimate relationship between death and life and who embrace fire as an essential element in this process of renewal; after a forest burns it supports a vast diversity of life. They contend with our world’s present imbalance and excess of fire and offer material and spiritual perspectives on the planet’s eventual rebirth into its next unfathomable formation. Narendra Haynes’ work uses synthetic and processed construction materials to create landscapes from deliberate burnings. This work is in conversation with Ye Qin Zhu’s relief paintings that breathe new life into discarded materials and mundane objects by weaving them into broader mythological scenes of creation. Fire Season is co-curated by Kristina Murray and Ilya Blender.
Fire Season and Pining Away: Eco-Readings in the Pine Grove have been made possible by a grant from the Joseph Robert Foundation.
