Season Zero wraps up at Beeler Gallery

How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD. wrapped up at Beeler Gallery on March 25, 2018.

The season was the first at Beeler Gallery by new Director of Exhibitions Jo-ey Tang. How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD. included Columbus' first art book fair, and a visit by three founding members of the New York-based collective fierce pussy, who will be back at Beeler this fall for a new season.

Read on for a full recap of events. 

Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, and Carrie Yamaoka of the New York-based collective fierce pussy (formed in 1991 along with Zoe Leonard) came to talk with art historian Jill Casid, in advance of our the fall 2018 season focusing on the individual artists’ works from the collective. Brooks Brody, Episalla, and Yamaoka performed for the first time while at Beeler, based on Transmission III, a broadsheet specifically printed for Beeler Gallery. Beginning in fall 2018, we will spend six months on the individual practices and convergences of the works of Brooks Brody, Episalla, Leonard, and Yamaoka.

We held An Art Book Affair, Columbus’ first art book fair, with the cooperation of three art book fairs: Index Art Book Fair (Mexico City), One Thousand Books (Copenhagen), and Detroit Art Book Fair. Columbus College of Art & Design’s Fine Arts students co-produced and sold a book with Johan Rosenmunthe and Flemming Ove Bech of One Thousand Books / Lodret Vandret around cryptocurrency. Soon at an art book fair near you.

We hung our jackets on Chris Domenick and Em Rooney’s Your Shell Is In The Unending, a coat rack they will re-adapt next winter. We sat around Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann’s L’Amour est plus froid que la mort VII, VIII (Love is colder than death). We listened to Beeler predecessors Natalie Marsh, James Voorhies, and Michael Goodson and current Assistant Director of Exhibitions Ian Ruffino and Director of Exhibitions Jo-ey Tang on how radical shifts in the short history of Beeler Gallery's programming are necessary to keep pedagogical structures active and responsive to our current condition. Moderated by Michael Mercil.

We also listened to DJ Henry Ross during the opening reception, and Sharon Udoh of Counterfeit Madison shared her music in a conversation with CCAD professor Robert Loss on Afrofuturism and the possibility of new music. We listened to Richard Fletcher, Jennifer Teets, Michael Van den Abeele, Dodie Bellamy, Gean Moreno, Neil Goldberg, Les Levine, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Dushko Petrovich, Emily Spivack, Sable Elyse Smith, Danielle Aubert, Maia Asshaq, Steve Panton, Lorraine Perlman, and Daniel Marcus.

We looked at the archive of Black & Red Books and the Detroit Printing Co-Op; Culture Hero; posters from Portikus, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Villa Arson; postcards from ECAL; runway invitations from Eckhaus Latta designed by Eric Wrenn; and notes from Alain Badiou. We watched videos by Sable Elyse Smith, Les Levine, Vier5, and Ephraim Asili.

We freely distributed publications and prints from fierce pussy, Xavier Antin, Mira Schor and Susan Bee’s M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Protest Posters commissioned by Château de Montsoreau (Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Antonia Birnbaum, Fabrice Hergott, Antoine Dufeu, A Constructed World, Art & Language), Yu Ji, Gina Osterloh, Black Pages, Turpentine, Amy Sillman, Pierre Paulin, Virginia Overton / Wade Guyton, Tyler Coburn & Byron Peters, Lara ögel, and Ann Hamilton.

There is more to tell you. Stay tuned for our post-season bulletin in a downloadable PDF in the coming months on beelergallery.org, with reflections by James Payne, Yin Ho, Merijn van der Heijden, and a self-reflection by Jennifer Teets.