Curating in the Continuous Present: A Rehearsal For Gertrude Stein's Objects Lie on a TableMain MenuA Detective Story“Objects on a table and the explanation.” (Stein, Objects, 105)The tableau has come off the wall.How to Write (in and of time)“In doing this thing, I hope to find out this question.” (Stein, How Writing is Written, 156)“Act so there is no use in a center.” (Stein, Tender Buttons, 63)“What is a relation?” (Stein, Objects, 105)“It is by no means strange to arrange.” (Stein, Stanzas in Meditation, 143)Re-Arranging Rhetoric“With which part of the arrangement are they in agreement.” (Stein, How to Write 136)What might the rehearsal of this play mean for exhibition making?path 2A Dramaturgy for Curating Processpath 2Rehearsals for Curating Reversalspath 2And afterwards. Now that is all. (Stein, Composition, 6)essay conclusionWorks Citedbibliographic informationEmelie Chhangur2d057680e6c2808d559b662d85db94eee62664f7
The Gallery is a Room in a House
12016-02-27T09:05:25-08:00Emelie Chhangur2d057680e6c2808d559b662d85db94eee62664f783113plain2016-03-22T13:53:56-07:00Emelie Chhangur2d057680e6c2808d559b662d85db94eee62664f7Stein's plays often included everything that was going on around her, as if a record of the context in which she was writing. A complimentary strategy for this exhibition, already arranged compositions leave the gallery space to occupy other positions in the “house,” as in DeFreitas’ “migratory Mary’s,” (if you look closely she moves), 2016, found, at times, in the Hart House Chapel, or just outside the gallery doors, en route. But more importantly, the same is true for the activities otherwise going on in the house, which enter the gallery, such as the Hart House Theatre Coalition, whose members stage a workshop production of the play twice during the exhibition, or, the Literary and Library Committee, whose curatorial intervention comprised of books and objects moves between the gallery and the Hart House Library. Like Stein’s Salon, the gallery is a room in a house and the exhibition, like Stein's play, is composed of the activities that comprise its dynamic milieu.
