The Exhibition
The original exhibition, on view at the UMKC Gallery of Art in the first quarter of 2020, took the viewer through two separate rooms: one dark, one light. The dark room explored observation and presented scientific information, including the 16 minute video, A Drawn Line, below. The second room featured interpretive works of art by four inter-generational artists: Jason Pollen, William Plummer, Mol Mir and Steph Nowotarski.
We invite you to explore the media and the artwork through the documentation of the original exhibition below.
The Dark Room
The Light Room
Documentation Book
About the Exhibit
Four intergenerational and interdisciplinary artists have plunged into the muck of local Kansas City waterways and emerged with an even greater understanding for the complexity found where, at first glance, there appears to be little to look at.
This immersive installation at the UMKC Gallery of Art, featuring researchers and artists from the Stowers Institute of Medical Research and the Kansas City Art Institute, celebrates the joy of discovery, inviting visitors to engage with and observe planarian flatworms on micro, macro, and life-size scales. Explore our interpretations and examine your own in this body of work featuring video projection, live planarians, and individual responses from each artist.
What can these flatworms teach us about being human?
Sobre la exposición
Cuatro artistas intergeneracionales e interdisciplinarios se han sumergido en el lodo de las vías fluviales de Kansas City y emergieron con una comprensión aún mayor de la complejidad donde, a primera vista, parecía haber poco para mirar.
Esta instalación inmersiva en la Galería de Arte de UMKC, con investigadores y artistas del Instituto de Investigación Médica Stowers y el Instituto de Arte de Kansas City, celebra el regocijo del descubrimiento, invitando a los visitantes a participar y observar los gusanos planos conocidos como planarias en vida y en escalas micro y macroscópicas. Explore nuestras interpretaciones y examine las suyas en este cuerpo de trabajo que incluye proyecciónes de video, planarias en vivo y respuestas individuales de cada artista.
¿Qué pueden enseñarnos estos gusanos planos sobre ser humanos?
PREVIOUSLY...
SOUND ART COLLECTIVE
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Performance 6 to 7 PM
The Sound Art Collaborative is a group of interdisciplinary artists from the Kansas City Art Institute who collectively compose music weekly. They performed with Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument, Sound Suit artist Nick Cave, and trumpeter Kyle Quass at the International Wounded Galaxies Festival in Bloomington, Indiana.
Participants:
Ben Cissner
Lee Cooke
Echo Freeman
Jordan Geiger
Alana Givens
Jordan Horton
Hannah Kelly
Genesis Koussiafes
Matthew Petry
Mia Robbins
Madison Sanchez-Martin
William Plummer, Artist and Guest Performer
Dwight Frizzell, KCAI Faculty
PANEL DISCUSSION / panel de discusión
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12 to 1 PM