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
A Performative Didactic
12016-03-24T10:01:20-07:00Emelie Chhangur2d057680e6c2808d559b662d85db94eee62664f783111The front entrance to the exhibition uses the traditional format of the didactic panel to reproduce the play, one half on each side ensuring the visitor is literally inside the play before entering the exhibitionplain2016-03-24T10:01:20-07:00Emelie Chhangur2d057680e6c2808d559b662d85db94eee62664f7
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12016-02-21T16:59:13-08:00A Performative Didactic6plain2016-03-24T10:08:40-07:00Gertrude Stein and Emelie Chhangur. (A rehearsal for) Objects Lie on a Table. A play from 1922 as a performative didactic for an exhibition in 2016. Printed text on vinyl. [text from: Gertrude Stein. Objects Lie on a Table, 1922. A play. Published in Operas and Plays. New York: Station Hill Press. 1998. 105 – 111.] *Located in the hallway outside Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
This work ensures that you literally stand inside the play before entering the exhibition, which is a rehearsal for it. A cheeky gesture, reproducing Stein’s text here turns an exhibition’s “didactic” panel into the script for a play. A “performative didactic” might be likened to live dramaturgy. From the play: “Now then read for me to me what you can and will see. I see what there is to see. You want to show more effort than that. And now how do you do. I have done very well.”