CONVERSATIONS

I love trying to get to heart of new thought in a creative brain. Tracking the process of a new artistic idea is often a meandering and surprising journey. I stage these talks to open the door to the artist’s thought process to everyone.

This New Idea

When new thoughts are first coming together and words don't yet seem to give clarity to these new formations, how do we express This New Idea?

 

This New Idea 00.11

Episode 00.11 A Crisis of Imagination, recorded May 18th, 2020 from Vallejo, CA

Guest: Ranu Mukherjee

 
 

This New Idea 00.14

Episode 00.14 Refocusing Toward what Matters, recorded June 7th, 2020 from Vallejo, CA

Guest: Nana Twumasi

This New Idea 00.17

Episode 00.17 Revising the Path, recorded June 18th, 2020 from Vallejo, CA

Guest: J.K Fowler

 

Second Saturday Artist Talks

Informal chats between Aggregate Space Gallery director Conrad Meyers and ASG’s exhibiting artists.

 

Second Saturday Artist Talk ASG59

A conversation between Conrad Meyers and Leila Weefur on Mar 9, 2019 during their exhibition at Aggregate Space Gallery

Leila Weefur and Aggregate Space Gallery presents, Between Beauty & Horror, a video installation exploring the symbiotic nature of beauty and horror. The installation is a diptych, divided into two long corridors on opposite sides of the gallery, separated by constructed walls. The film’s poetic narrative explores this particular duality as an intrinsic part of the Black experience. It posits abjection, violence, and eroticism as the ingredients that make up the “between” and are considered to be the binding agents of Beauty & Horror. Exploring the eco-geography of Blackness, this diptych focuses on the sensorial and somatic experiences that gives blackness a distinct and inherently racialized materiality. This work looks at Beauty & Horror using the symbology of the blackberry fruit as part of the eco-geography and a metaphor for the Black figure.

Second Saturday Artist Talk ASG58

Aggregate Space Gallery is pleased to present this selection of video works from our annual open call for time-based media. For the 6th time, we intentionally chose to forgo a themed call so that a cohesive show may be discovered in the relationships between some of the 200+ submissions. This year, the works that stood out were all surreal depictions of personal struggle with outside forces, some via artist confessionals, and some presented more cryptically. The video pieces that will be playing concurrently within Holding Breath each contain one-sided conversations either with an implied partner or no-one at all, often relying on humor as a weapon to disarm the viewer from the frustrations, anxiety, and loneliness under the surface of each piece.

Featuring works by Abe Abraham, Maryamsadat Amirvaghefi, Selvaggio Dordetti, Emma Penaz Eisner, Valery Jung Estabrook, Rachel Garber Cole, Matthew Gottschalk, Beata Rasitsan, Britt Thomas, and Siru Wen.