SGC International Conference • Knoxville, Tennessee • March 18-21, 2015 |
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SGC International Conference • Knoxville, Tennessee • March 18-21, 2015 |
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In her printstallation “Supplement to the Fair,” Kentucky artist Lydia Diemer asks “What would have been tossed or swept aside during the 1982 event in Knoxville and where would it have accumulated?” This project presents a hypothetical arrangement by placing versions and reinventions of this detritus in the Knoxville Convention Center.
At the edges of spectacle, the artist envisions disintegrating allusions to the fair itself, Qix, Ms. Pac-Man, smashed Cherry Coke cups, puckered facsimiles of news articles, the $57 profit and residual debt, ruined fliers proclaiming “Energy Turns the World”, folded, balled up, sliced, and tucked. Printed pebbles, oblate spheroids, unduloids, portable and expandable, flipping from the ground to the wall, a peek of color, a lure to look again.
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Contact Sphere Knoxville at sgci2015@gmail.com 1715 Volunteer Blvd., School of Art, Knoxville, TN 37996 |
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