Accumulated Reductions at Rosalux Gallery

Please join me at Rosalux gallery for , Accumulative Reductions, a collaborative exhibition with Emily Dzieweczynski

Film still from Field Sensing

Public Reception: Saturday, January 10, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Jan 10-Feb 1

Artist Conversation with Lindsy Halleckson and Aaron Dysart, Thursday, January 29  at 7 PM

As artists, we are drawn to the collection and dissemination of scientific data — particularly to what is lost or gained through the iterative process of translating quantitative data. Inquiry drives our practice more than resolution. Can all experience be reduced to data? What remains — or disappears — when data is stripped of its context? What can an artist’s perspective bring to scientific field work?

We are interested in the poetic relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. Human observation and the integration of multiple perspectives are essential in the scientific process, and perhaps this transient boundary is where we can begin to question our knowledge gaps. When we remove sensorial experience from the equation and abstract ecosystems into datasets, in what ways do we risk becoming disconnected from the environments we study?    

In these works, we reflect on our phenomenological experiences in the field and the inability to ever understand something fully. As artists, we acknowledge that all data comes from something real. 

Acknowledgements

The work in this exhibition is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2317853. The interdisciplinary team consists of principal investigators Dr. Joel Barker, Dr. Katherine Flanigan, Dr. Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Dr. Jeff La Frenierre, Dr. Li Li, Dr. Crystal Ng, Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui, Dr. David Rounce, Dr. Cara Santelli, and Dr. Daniel Stanton. Additional team members include or have included: Ally Jacoby, Andrea Cruz Bracamontes, Angela Douglass, Cora Hentges, Dr. Joel Baker, Maddie Banks, Dr. Tiago Bittencourt, Valerie Diana Smykalov, Jazmin Aspiazu, Dr. Xavier Zapata Ríos, Dr. Veronica Graciela Minaya Maldonado, Dr. Carla Paola Manciati Jaramillo, Bobby Schulz, Briana Jol, Dr. Leila Sabari, Evan Taylor, and Leah Nelson.

We greatly appreciate Corporación de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas Juan Montalvo, which includes the Kichwa communities of Espiga de Oro, Pucará, Chaupiloma, El Verde, and San Jose, for allowing us to access their land, in addition to all of the support and hospitality they extended to us. We are deeply grateful to the staff at the Refugio Ruales Oleas Berge and Refugio Yanacocha for accommodating us. We want to specifically acknowledge Don Carlos, Don Juan, Alberto, and Cristian.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the artists and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Gallery Location + Hours

Rosalux Gallery

315 W 48th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55419

Gallery Hours: Saturdays + Sundays: 12–4 pm, open to the public