Exploded View

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

You Are Here Nightmare USA Exploded View member Nina Rossi created this short film, Nightmare USA , while we were developing the performance piece, You Are Here . It is part of the larger piece, and stands on its own.  Music for the film includes Nina Rossi playing cigar box slide bass and Whamola bass, with Ben Sears on drums. Audio includes news clips:  PRI The World’s Carolyn Beeler’s coverage of the collapse of Thwaites Glacier: https://interactive.pri.org/2019/05/antarctica/thwaites-glacier-collapse.html WBUR's story on Sharon Lerner's reporting in The Intercept on the myth of recycling: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/09/20/how-to-recycle-plastic Jane Fonda on the urgency required for climate action: https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=19-P13-00050&segmentID=3 BBC World News recorded live Saturday evening, Jan. 4, 2019.

You Are Here      Explorations in Personal Cartography         A juried art exhibit curated by Exploded View January 5-February 29, 2020         The Great Falls Discovery Center Turners Falls, Massachusetts * In the fall of 2019 Exploded View sent out a call for art,  asking these questions: Where do you live? Where are you from? Where do you dream? How do you find your way? What takes you in and out of a place?  Where are your borders?  Who gets to make the map?  And who gets left out? Do maps lie? This exhibition is the response. * Directory of artists Mishael Coggeshall-Burr  Paris Alley oil on canvas; $2,200 Rue Bonaparte oil on canvas; $2,200 NYC cathedral alley oil on canvas; $1,800 Mishael's three works investigate different resolutions of images of city landscapes under different lighting situations, two of Paris and one of NYC.  With details obscured, we are left with optical essentials, int