Standing Still, Lying Down, As If

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Oct 26 2018 - Jan 6 2019

Standing Still, Lying Down, As If is a group exhibition that brings together works by over 30 artists in the MOCAD’s Front Gallery.

As participants in public spaces, we are guided by the frameworks that we encounter within them. Omnipresent and multifarious, the forms of public communication are demarcated and facilitated through sets of parameters as a prerequisite for order. Motivated by the inevitability of our engagement with the pre-established conventions—and by a question of “What happens when a framework is misused?”—Standing Still, Lying Down, As If asks us to participate actively, and radically, within a framed space.

Each work in the exhibition is a case study, proposing a distinct approach to the exhibition’s request for participation. Jordan Seiler’s PublicAdCampaign mediates a public’s role in the infrastructures of ad space; Joel Holmberg reconfigures off-the-shelf printers into righteously poetical drawing machines; Anne Elizabeth Moore’s clandestine use of the format of the comic reports on the garment industry complex; and an inexhaustible collection of visual “improvements” by Beni Bischof aids in processing popular culture. These works and many others are presented together to facilitate an inquisitive environment for the viewer.

Standing Still, Lying Down, As If offers a primer for active engagement with one’s own surroundings. By participating actively and creatively with—and in response to—a complex of established frameworks, we not only alter our perception of routine, but allow ourselves an opportunity to reinvent the framed and predetermined.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.          

  • Various Media
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Jordan Seiler
  • Joel Holmberg
  • Anne Elizabeth Moore
  • and others

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