AUBREY EDWARDS AND ALISON FENSTERSTOCK:
WHERE THEY AT: A Multimedia Archive of New Orleans Bounce 
February 11 — April 3, 2010

New Orleans has midwifed every existing form of indigenous American music, from jazz to blues to funk, and hip-hop is the newest manifestation of that tradition. Where They At portrays the founders, architects, and players in New Orleans rap, or Bounce, a community-based phenomenon that gets little attention from the mainstream music press. Photographs, oral histories, and footage document the passing of seminal beats in New Orleans soul to a new generation in the late 1980’s and the creation of a new voice in Southern roots music. A line is traced to the present-day diaspora, as Hurricane Katrina has scattered a once tight-knit Bounce community whose music only existed at home — a home that has been redefined physically and culturally.

Juvenile, Oral History Excerpt

HUNTER CROSS: TRANSPARENCY NOW
February 11 — March 13, 2010

Transparency Now is a site-specific installation by Hunter Cross that employs materials common to mid-1990s office environments and elementary school classrooms, stacking prefab bingo chips on overhead projectors to produce images reminiscent of microscopic imagery and vector graphics. These 'overheads' work with the available color palette and are built from a set of devised rules, routines and patterns. The imagery creates a mysterious environment stuck in time, recalling an abandoned office meeting or scientific visualization. By focusing on color and light and its interaction with the site's glass cases, the work is scaled using the compression capabilities of the projected image (e.g. small objects creating larger images) to encourage questions regarding an art object’s materiality and the ease with which its image can enter and exist, perhaps more effectively in a virtual realm.