Amy Mackie and Ricardo Barba, who are running the artspace PARSE in the Central Business District, invited us to curate an exhibition in their space in 2015. This was the first time we as Deltaworkers had the opportunity to showcase ourselves to the city by way of exhibition making. We came up with a format for a rotating exhibition: 3 films by international makers, Terrence Nance, Melanie Bonajo and Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorentz, were on continues display. One of these films was projected while the other two were shown on a flatscreen. The moment a film ‘premiered’ in the projection room we organised an event where we asked local artists and academics to react to the thematics the film dealt with. Read more about it in the press release for The Colour Out Of Space.
A lot of documentation was shot and we wanted to share some of it with y’all.
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- The Colour Out Of Space, exhibition at PARSE.
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- The Colour Out Of Space, exhibition at PARSE.
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- Left: Opaque by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorentz. Right: Swimming In Your Skin Again by Terence Nance.
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- Left: Night Soil/Fake Paradise by Melanie Bonajo. Right: Opaque by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorentz.
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- Night Soil/Fake Paradise by Melanie Bonajo projected.
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- The first event around Swimming In Your Skin Again by Terence Nance.
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- Deltaworkers curators Maaike Gouwenberg & Joris Lindhout give a talk on the Southern States as a mythical region.
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- We re-printed the zine Southern Gothic that Brad Benischek made for our 2011 exhibition What The Modern Era Has Gained In Civility It Has Lost In Poetic Inspiration.
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- Swimming In Your Skin Again by Terence Nance premieres on the big screen.
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- Maaike Gouwenberg introduces the second event around Night Soil/Fake Paradise by Melanie Bonajo.
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- Ethnobotanist Christopher Brown introduces ayahuasca.
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- Performance by Vanessa Centeno.
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- Performance by Vanessa Centeno.
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- Night Soil/Fake Paradise by Melanie Bonajo premieres on the big screen.
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- Dave Greber’s video Staying Connected: In the Void.
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- Joris Lindhout and Christopher Brown in conversation on psychedelica and new media.
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- Joris Lindhout introduces the third event around Opaque by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorentz.
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- Local Honey’s video I’ll Be Your Mirror.
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- Performance by Kalub Linzy. His amazing presence was made possible by Prospect New Orleans and Xavier University.
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- Performance by Kalub Linzy. His amazing presence was made possible by Prospect New Orleans and Xavier University.
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- Performance by Ashley Teamer and Xavier Juárez.
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- Performance by Ashley Teamer and Xavier Juárez.
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- Opaque by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorentz premieres on the big screen.
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- Aftertalk by Red Vaughan Tremmel.
Photos by Jacob Dwyer, Maggie McWilliams, Maaike Gouwenberg and Guy Tem. Many thanks to everyone who made this possible: all the artists involved, PARSE, Prospect New Orleans, Xavier University, May Gallery, David Sullivan, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Fonds Kwadraat (f.k.a Het Materiaalfonds).