throwntogetherness was a bicoastal dual screening in Portland, OR and Philadelphia, PA, co-organized by local new media collectives Mobile Projection Unit, including Fernanda D’Agostino and Sarah Turner, joined by Jaleesa Johnston, and Lino Kino, including Boothe Carlson, Saskia Globig, Erin Gordon, Michael Ipsen, and Emilie P. Slater, in dialogue with curator and artist Jaleesa Johnston and writer, curator, and art historian, Laurel V. McLaughlin.
throwntogetherness as a whole asks: what does it mean to make mediated work from a place, space, and time? During COVID-19, answers remain in flux as local mobilities, livelihoods, and ideologies shift on unstable terrain. The works disclose what feminist geographer Doreen Massey qualifies as “throwntogetherness,” or complex “negotiations of space-time.”
Pacific Northwest curated video works focus on video space as as a site for rituals and acts of transformation. Curated by Jaleesa Johnston, this set of works included Queer/Cuir (2014) by Daniel Coka, when the caustic cools (2016) by Mel Carter, Make a thing. Break it. (2020) by Satpreet Kahlon, Bodyland (2021) by Sarah Brahim and safehouse ii (2020) by ariella tai.
Other exhibiting Portland artists included Fernanda D'Agostino, Jaleesa Johnston and Sarah Turner. Philadelphia exhibiting artists included Sam Dellert, Zoe Chronis, Sam Hafferty, Bambi Haggerman, Hook + Loop, John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez, George Shands, and Guava Rhee.
throwntogetherness was supported by a 2021 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Project Grant, Philadelphia, PA and the Ford Family Foundation, Portland, OR. In-kind sponsors include the Bok Building, Philadelphia and NW Marine Works Building 5, Portland.
Photo by Dante Korinto
Photo by Dante Korinto
Photo by Dante Korinto
Photo by Dante Korinto
Documentation of Portland OR screening at Building 5.
Documentation of Portland OR screening at Building 5.