Artist Talk
March 16, 2010, 6 pm

Janine Antoni
At Home in the Body
U.Va. Art Museum
March 16 - June 13, 2010

Fallow City is an intervention in the typical fabric of suburbia, in the monoculture of private spaces and cultivated dreams.

Taking the current crisis of the suburbs as a chance, and the most extreme situation of Detroit as its site, the project aims to develop new scenarios and new typologies for the emerging fallow cityscapes. The interventions propose more imaginative and public ways of using or mis-using the suburban forms, creating shared structures and photovoltaic systems–providing light for spaces of encounter even as the city infrastructure retreats.

A fallow season creates an interruption where unusual uses and forms can flourish. The exhibition presents a full-scale installation of a Solar Thicket structure prototype.

Deploying strategies found in fairytales, Solar Thickets can overgrow abandoned houses facilitating their enchantment and transformation. They can connect between houses, urban meadows, span over streets and interweave a new layer of public space into the existing suburban landscape. More >

Actor, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker crowned the "Pope of Trash", Waters brings the underground sensibility to the cultural mainstream with such films as Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and Hairspray. This joyously devious one-man show celebrated his film career, early negative influences and fascination with true crime, fashion lunacy, exploitation films, and contemporary art world extremes. A rallying cry for connoisseurs of "trash" across grounds! More >