Featuring Rebecca Beachy, Rhonda Holberton, Essi Kausalainen, Takahiro Iwasaki, Aki Inomata, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tsherin Sherpa
Recent Publicity:
Bad at Sports, Episode 601: Coming of Age at Sector 2337
“Many of the works in the exhibition are pictorially and sculpturally built environments, familiar, but physically uninhabitable by human life. Coming of Age is an unexpectedly utopian exhibition, in which humanity is primarily represented through celebrations, mimesis, and built environments.” — Max Guy, Chicago Artist Writers
“Networks of metal culled up from the earth connect me to the labor of that anonymous person and allow me to download the virtual product of their labor for free. I sent that product over the same network to a CNC machine that translated the virtual into physical reality. The marks of the hand left in the plaster covering reflect a human interface layer that is becoming increasingly obsolete.” —Rhonda Holberton on her FALLEN PIXEL sculptures in Coming of Age, Performa
“At the moment being a body means for me being a sensing, sensual, sensitive being. It means an amazing capacity of abstract thinking, of theorizing, of creating and solving problems. Being a body means constant movement, constant change. It means the greatest pleasure and joy—a place to connect, to care, to touch the other.’—Coming of Age exhibiting artist Essi Kausalainen, Bad at Sports.
