Image courtesy of the artist
From April 7-22, New City Arts presents Essing, Fawning, Gawping, Hocking, Isling, Jostling, Keening, Legging, Moping, Nodding, Ooling, Putzing, Querling, an installation by Conrad Cheung.
Building on Rumbling, Snuggling, Toddling, a 2022 installation (see above image) in the main space of Colorado College’s Packard Hall, Essing... is an interactive exhibition with forms derived from children's toys and drawings in children’s books.
New City Arts' Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
April 7 from 5-7:30PM; Artist talk and guest performance by Retta at 6PM.
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday from 10AM-5PM
Exhibition Events
Reverse Opening: April 12 at 5PM
Covid-19 Visitor Policy
Please do not come to Welcome Gallery if you have been exposed to COVID-19, are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or have been advised to isolate or quarantine.
Exhibition Statement (courtesy of the artist)
Essing, Fawning, Gawping, Hocking, Isling, Jostling, Keening, Legging, Moping, Nodding, Ooling, Putzing, Querling proposes a range of queer furniture and toys as grounds for participatory performance and play. These objects seek to serve as set pieces for kinds of queer sociality — the ludic, the leisurely, the cooperative, the curious, and the unintelligible — and as, more broadly, incitements to stranger, mushier relations, interactions, and fantasies that might emerge from the encounter between participant and place.
About the Artist (courtesy of the artist)
Conrad Cheung is an artist and educator whose practice couples transdisciplinary, collaborative, and ethnographic processes with wide-ranging artistic methods and media to address various urgencies, including post-truth and related crises of knowledge, the empathic and affective demands of democracy, crises of public space and commons, and sustainability in the face of multispecies extinction. Cheung’s work spans installation, performance, VR, cyberintervention, and more, and they collaborate regularly with practitioners across creative and academic disciplines. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Virginia.
About the Performing Artist
Retta is 9 years old and lives with her parents, her big sister, four cats, and one dog. Retta loves to draw. She especially likes to draw snakes, cats, and imaginary creatures. Her favorite colors are red and blue. In addition to drawing, she loves to sing and play video games with her friends.
Images courtesy of Conrad Cheung.
This exhibition is made possible with support from the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and The FUNd at CACF.
