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Thriving, Abundant, Joyful Presents and Futures


A Video Exhibition

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Nov 1st to Dec 4th 2024 @ Pennant Place (sunset to 9pm)
928 NW 21st Ave, Gainesville, Florida  

We will have a public mid-point reception/screening on Saturday, November 16th, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The film program will begin at 6 and 7:15 p.m. We suggest bringing a chair and/or blanket to the screening.

Featuring the work of Cori Matyas, Jean-Michel Rolland, José D. Trejo-Maya, Nicole Dextras, Sandrine Deumier, S. Chandrasekaran, Vardit Goldner, and the collective work of Komal Goswami, Cody Igo, Alexander Kirkpatrick, Alex Mendoza, Maria Fern

Curated by Flounder Lee
Jurors: Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, Lauryn Tyler, and Flounder Lee


Thriving booklet on Canva

Thriving booklet pdf (big)

Thriving booklet pdf (small)


Curatorial Statement

What is the difference between surviving and thriving? What are some of the tools, technologies, and systems that can get you/us from enduring to flourishing? What are possibilities within neurodivergence and disability for knowing more ways of abundant, joy-filled life? How can we build resilience into communities and individuals to tackle whatever political realities and climate catastrophes yet to come? 

Survivance is a concept articulated by Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor 1 that goes beyond mere survival into actively creating thriving communities that are also integral to the world outside of their communities 2–4. Vizenor says survivance “[…]is an active sense of presence over absence, deracination, and oblivion; survivance is the continuance of stories…” 5. It is active survival, pushing away victimhood and pushing towards a thriving future without passing the trauma of colonialism onto future generations. Not forgetting it, but teaching history without the trauma continuing 6.

Solarpunk is one tool for working on many of the questions posed here. It looks for possibilities that are both global and local, solutions small and big, and everything in between; one magic fix to create a better world is antithetical to Solarpunk. Instead, it conceives and enacts a million solutions to these problems7, the right tool for the right situation. 

These artists deal with the present and future in a variety of ways. Everyone deserves joy, love, to thrive, not just survive.


 


Upcoming Exhibitions

 

Alex Robinson: Solo Show

 

References (yes, in a curatorial statement)

 

Vizenor, G. R. Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance. (U of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Abreu, M. A. Embodying Survivance. Art in America (2017).
Ortiz, V. Virgil Ortiz. https://virgilortiz.com/about-vo/ (2020).
Speed, S. & Topash-Caldwell, B. Native Studies in the Apocalypse. (2020).
Vizenor, G. Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence. (U of Nebraska Press, 2008).
Ski, M. & Luger, C. H. Artist Talk: Cannupa Hanska Luger. Preprint at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EcEEF4Y-0Q&feature=emb_title (2020).
The Solarpunk Community. A Solarpunk Manifesto (English) – ReDes – Regenerative Design. Regenerative Design http://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/.
heather ahtone, PhD. Shifting the Paradigm: A Love Story. (2021).
Nagam, J., Tamati-Quennell, M. & Lane, C. Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice. (ARP Books, 2020).
Reilly, M. Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. (National Geographic Books, 2018).