The Carnegie announced the opening of The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death on Friday, April 3 from 5-8 p.m. with a Curator and Artist Walkthrough on Saturday, April 4th at noon.
The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death sits on the Ohio–Kentucky seam, a gateway between the Midwest and the South. Two climates overlap here, as do contested histories and possible futures.
Each piece is an instrument tuned to a minor key that uses monochrome, drone, and repetition to ground the senses.
Moving slowly through The Carnegie, visitors encounter extradimensional traces and haunts, but also budding timelines.
The new exhibition is curated by Sean J Patrick Carney a writer, composer, researcher, visual artist, and educator. He is the creator and host of Time Zero, a podcast about the nuclearized world. His essays, criticism, and interviews appear frequently in publications including Aperture, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Artforum, High Country News, Art in America, Do Not Research, VICE, Southwest Contemporary, and the Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Scholarly Texts.
Sso-Rha Kang, The Carnegie’s Curator says: “Sean’s intimate examination of how the residues of the past continue to seep into the present and future is brought together through artists whose work invites reflection, re-examination, and moments of levity.”
As the exhibition opens, spring returns to the Ohio River. Honeysuckle reanimates
along mortar lines; herons and egrets come back; winter’s grief loosens, settling into
compost and feeding the cycle again. There’s a gothic comfort in certain inevitabilities.
Artists include, Manami Ishimura, Ian Hersko, Justin Hodges, Jesse Ly, Natalie Lerner and Plume Girl.
This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, go to TheCarnegie.com.
The body isn’t a battery that discharges up death is presented by The Annex Gallery. Programming supported by 12 Paws Pickle Ball Club.