Curating in the Continuous Present: A Rehearsal For Gertrude Stein's Objects Lie on a Table

Re-Arrangements

Troubling the gestalt of the exhibition’s compositional arrangement is part of its iterative (floor) plan, too. Come back to the exhibition again and things might have changed or been re-framed, that is, they will have been re-arranged. Visitors are invited to pick up one of DeFreitas’ texts, located behind the front desk. They can read them as the exhibition guide instead of one provided by the curator. Text is another object in the arrangement of this exhibition’s composition, and depending on how the work is framed, its meaning will change.

And, there are other arrangements being made - or, perhaps more to the point, re-arrangements:


Literary and Library Committee curatorial intervention in Rehearsal for Objects Lie on a Table with off-site component in the Hart House Library:
Each Wednesday evening a composition comprised of found objects and historical books is added and arranged on the modular boxes. Each Wednesday, the previous week’s composition leaves the gallery and gets installed in the Hart House Library. For the final week of the exhibition (April 25-30) the entire installation is available to view at the Hart House Library.

Performance by Erika DeFreitas: and now to begin as if to begin begin of beginning again and again and again (in the continuous present with Gertrude Stein) – at various times throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Arrangements by Diane Borsato – at various times throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Cabbages by Terrarea – a series of "still lives" arranged and re-arranged over the duration of the exhibition.

GO BACK TO it is by no means strange to arrange

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