December 27, 2018, Albany Times Union, Capital Region’s 2018 highlights in arts, culture, entertainment
April 19, 2018, Colgate.edu, Museum studies students take four-museum tour
February 23, 2018, Times Telegram, Shared photo exhibit brings college museums together
February 22, 2018, Albany Times Union, This Place Photo Exhibit Examines Disputed Terrain
February 13, 2018, Skidmore News, “This Place”: 12 Artists’ Takes on Israel and the West Bank
February 7, 2018, Go See Art, This Place：12 Photographers Examine Issues on the Subject of Israel and the West Bank
February 1, 2018, Albany.edu, Experiencing ‘This Place’
February 1, 2018, Daily Gazette, When photos lead to dialogue
January 30, 2018, Saratoga.com, Explore Israel & the West Bank Through Illuminating Photographs at the Tang Teaching Museum
Past Exhibitions 2018
This Place
This Place is a photographic exploration of Israel and the West Bank, which will show concurrently at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College, and at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York. Each institution will present work by four of the twelve artists that make up the show. The institutions will develop curriculum around the exhibition, creating new ways of museum-based teaching and learning. The subject matter of This Place — whose themes include history, politics, and religion — is richly interdisciplinary, with broad points of entry for faculty across the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This inventive inter-institutional approach to teaching and learning with museums is supported by a $222,500 grant from the Teagle Foundation.
This Place includes the work of photographers: Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington, and the creator of the project, Frédéric Brenner. The twelve photographers, all from outside Israel, create a diverse portrait of a much-contested land.
The French photographer Frédéric Brenner initiated the project in 2005, after spending more than 20 years exploring Jewish identity and diaspora. He felt that it was imperative to consider the role of “otherness” in both the Jewish and modern Israeli identity and to interrogate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of the outsider. The goal of the project was to adjust the grammar and syntax of the flood of images from Israel and the West Bank, to find the space between journalism and art, and to use artists to create a “parole poétique” — one that emphasized the essential humanity underlining this thorny conflict.
Each of the photographers visited Israel between 2009 and 2012 and took a different approach, highlighting the ways in which photography can be used to illuminate multiple perspectives on a complex topic. Wendy Ewald, for example, taught children and adults in fourteen communities to photograph daily life in their homes and villages in her project, this is where I live (2015). Tens of thousands of digital images were collected and Ewald displays a combination of her own work alongside the participants’ photographs and their testimonies about life in Israel and the West Bank.
At the Tang, This Place will include work by Wendy Ewald, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, and Nick Waplington. Simultaneously, the Wellin Museum will present work by Wendy Ewald, Fazal Sheikh, Frédéric Brenner, and Stephen Shore; the Picker Art Gallery will show Rosalind Fox Solomon, Josef Koudelka, Thomas Struth, and Nick Waplington; and work by Martin Kollar, Jungjin Lee, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall will be on view at the University Art Museum.
The Teagle Foundation Grant will allow for this innovative exhibition structure to become a catalyst for the development of new pedagogical modalities. Each of the four partner institutions involved in presenting the exhibition will offer events, dialogues, discussions, and college courses taught using the exhibition. A symposium after the close of the exhibition will reflect on the project’s outcomes and methods and discuss the role of museums in higher education. The project will be shared with a larger community of faculty and museum professionals through publications in a number of formats.
This Place has been exhibited at the DOX Center for Art in Prague, Czech Republic (October 24, 2014 – March 2, 2015), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel (May 14 – September 6, 2015), the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida (October 15, 2015 – January 15, 2016), and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, New York (February 12 – June 5, 2016).
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