Resistance After Nature

March 17–April 28, 2017

Opening and conversation with curators: 
Friday, March 17, 4:30–7:30pm

Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
Hours: Monday–Friday 11am–5pm,
Wednesday until 8, Saturday–Sunday noon–5pm

T 610 896 1287

exhibits.haverford.edu

Curators: Kendra Sullivan & Dylan Gauthier

Climate change is real. The earth is imperiled, but the future is unwritten. Every crisis provokes new ways of being—waves of resistance, hope, and possibility usher in a world beyond recognition. We must believe in the immanence of this world in order for it to be.

Curated by Kendra Sullivan & Dylan Gauthier, Resistance After Nature tracks the practices of artists who imagine and construct alternative approaches to such entangled ecological, political, and economic issues as Indigenous sovereignty and water rights, the fossil economy, ocean acidification, and deforestation. This exhibition brings together forms of insurgent environmental art that assert that another world is possible: indeed, it is already here. We are making it together even now.

Artists
Maria Thereza Alves, Ursula Biemann, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Futurefarmers, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Marianne Heier, Haley Hughes, Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), Tanya Lukin Linklater, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Anne Lydiat and Chris Wainwright, Mary Mattingly, More&More (Surya Mattu, Sarah Rothberg, Marina Zurkow), Postcommodity, Brie Ruais, WINTER COUNT.

Public programs
Monday, April 3, 4:30pm
Cobalt/The Objects: Resistance After Nature workshop with Mary Mattingly
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

Thursday, April 13, 4:30pm
INVESTING IN FUTURES: Resistance After Nature workshop with More&More (Surya Mattu, Sarah Rothberg, Marina Zurkow)
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

Sponsors
Resistance After Nature is made possible is made possible with support from the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the Hurford Center’s 2016–17 Faculty Seminar “Environmental Design, Sustainability, and Artistic Intervention,” led by Markus Baenziger (Fine Arts) and Joshua Milton Moses (Anthropology/Environmental Studies).

Part of the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery aims to extend cultural literacy through the display and analysis of work across visual and material media. Envisioning exhibition spaces as active workshops for the exploration of visual culture, the Exhibitions Program partners with faculty, students, and visiting curators to design exhibitions that connect curricular interests and scholarship with contemporary artistic practice.

Press contact: Matthew Seamus Callinan, Associate Director of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Campus Exhibitions, at T (610) 896 1287 or [email protected].