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
I looked at the pineapple, pencil in hand, and wondered who was lying to who, 2015
12016-02-23T17:39:10-08:00Derek Liddington, I looked at the pineapple, pencil in hand, and wondered who was lying to who, 20159Pineappleplain2016-02-27T07:54:17-08:00Derek Liddington, I looked at the pineapple, pencil in hand, and wondered who was lying to who, 2015. Graphite on canvas, hand painted water colour on oak. Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto. Created in a similar fashion as Two Views of Bananas..., only now grappling with “representing” a pineapple by draping its form with a piece of canvas, Liddington once again gives shape to the image of his “subject” by tracing its literal form—a process of abstraction. Yet, Liddington considers his “subject” (which of course is the object: a pineapple) to have agency in the encounter; it is the thing itself that gives Liddington his visual cues in this performative representation. The work’s title also makes us wonder: on a table, are objects lying? “And bananas. Cardboard coloured as bananas are coloured. And Cabbages. Cabbages are green and if one should not happen to be there what would happen, the green would unhappily unhappily result in hardness and we could only regret that the result was unfortunate…” (Objects, 105)
