Project Description

Printed in conjunction with the exhibition Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy March 23rd-April 27th 2018.

Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy proposes a re-consideration of melancholia defined through our contemporary condition. Resisting the historical definition of melancholy as an affliction that creates disorder or inactivity, this exhibition reimagines passive sadness as powerful refusal, a conscious (or unconscious) “standing aside,” a willful production of generative failures and resistant potencies. Each of the contributing artists begins with the idea that outside the boundaries of “contentment” resides a potent flourishing. Unwilling is a resistance and a proposition: it responds to the profound cultural reckoning we are witnessing in this moment in time, as the boundaries and exclusions of state-defined citizenship become increasingly fraught.

Title: unwilling (a companion)

Publisher: Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

Author/s: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Mike Bourscheid, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Justine A. Chambers, Noa Giniger

Year: 2018

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Publication Type: Book

Quantity: 1

ISBN: 9780999851807