Exploded View

Exploded View's film and installation  Bitter Sweet Feast   and the Maintenance & Repair gallery exhibition  at The Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls, Massachusetts.  November 2021 See Montague Community Television Video  of Gallery Event on November 13, 2021 https://vimeo.com/650820790

  Exploded View announces its upcoming installation during November 2021  at The Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA In this second pandemic year, it feels essential to perform maintenance and repair individually,  and in community.  Art work for this show may reflect on processes of mending, reconstruction, redemption, fixing, rebuilding, healing, and transformation.  The show includes the new project by Exploded View: Bitter Sweet Feast and Exploded View curates a juried gallery show featuring work by artists on the theme of Maintenance & Repair.  Exploded View: Maintenance & Repair Schedule of events Saturday November 13, Sunday November 21, and Sunday November 28 :  Gallery event from 1 to 3 p.m., with a large screen showing of Bitter Sweet Feast at 2 p.m., with performative readings by Exploded View.  Light refreshments in the courtyard with artists from the gallery show.  Friday November 26 It’s about time for a Nap! Bring your mat and pillow into

Call for art:  Exploded View: Maintenance & Repair Exploded View Announces Call for Art  Exploded View is curating a community art exhibit in November 2021 at the Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls, MA. The theme of the show is Repair. Exploded View is a poetry-performance-art collaboration of local artists and writers, and their Call for Art asks fellow artists to consider the following: In this second pandemic year, it feels essential to perform maintenance and repair individually, and in community. Art work for this show may reflect on processes of mending, reconstruction, redemption, fixing, rebuilding, healing, and transformation. What strategies for individual and collective maintenance can be articulated by devoting ourselves to repair? Two and three dimensional works will be considered for the show, as space allows. The exhibit in the Great Hall of the Discovery Center will run from November 6 to December 1, 2021. Associated programming during November is planned

You Are Here You Are Here is an original piece of performance art composed by Exploded View and performed for a packed house at The Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls, Massachusetts on January 12, 2020.  The performance was held in conjunction with the opening reception of an art show, organized and juried by Exploded View, drawing on related themes. That gallery show, You Are Here: Explorations in Personal Cartography , featured the work of dozens of artists . What is this all about? A group of artists, women, awake from a nightmare to find themselves adrift on the rising seas brought by climate change, the din of the Trump presidency still ringing in their ears.  Where are they going? Where have they come from?  What do they make of this? You can watch the performance here . This work was part of a two month residency at The Great Falls Discovery Center, spanning January and February 2020.  The residency drew to a close just as the COVID-19 pandemic was forcing lockdowns

Exploded View made this video in solidarity with the Berlin Literature Festival 2020 Worldwide Reading for Freedom of Expression and Assembly in support of the activists working for democracy in Hong Kong and around the world.

You Are Here Photo credit: Julian Parker-Burns The Exploded View residency at The Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls, Mass., includes a juried exhibition of more than two dozen artists, a performance, generative work and a series of related events. YOU ARE HERE: EVENTS with Exploded View   —  January and February, 2020 — January 5–February 29 — You Are Here Community Art Exhibit Work by regional artists in multiple media exploring maps, the significance of place, and movement across boundaries. January 12, 1–3 p.m. — You Are Here: Reception and Performance Artists’ reception for the juried community show at 1 p.m., followed at 2 p.m. by a new performance by Exploded View members Trish Crapo, Edite Cunhã, Candace Curran, Nina Rossi and Samantha Wood.  January 19, 1–3 p.m. — Put Your Story on the Map  A community mapping project focusing on Turners Falls that combines personal history with visions for the future. January 26, 1–3 p.m. — Napping These ar