Join the Southland Institute for a discussion in Echo's Loom, a solo exhibition from Kristin Posehn currently on view at Phase Gallery. This is an in-person event.

Resources:

https://www.kposehn.com/

https://kristinposehn.substack.com/

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The Southland Institute (for critical, durational, and typographic post-studio practices) is dedicated to exploring, identifying, and implementing meaningful, affordable, sustainable alternatives in postsecondary design and art education in the United States. Through interconnected programming that includes graduate-level typography workshops, in-depth discussion and critique of participant work and external exhibitions, partnering with local arts organizations, and a supplementary curriculum gleaned from public events and resources at area institutions and online, the Southland Institute offers a rigorous, accessible alternative to graduate education, with an emphasis on identifying exemplary public and online events, courses, screenings, lectures, trips, discussions, and readings involving image, typography, (infra)structure, sound, time, space, pedagogy, archives, and language, while proposing and implementing supplements where necessary.

Exploring the potentials of unaccredited, non-terminal higher and graduate education, the Southland Institute is focused on examining the gaps, grey areas, interrelationships, and common boundaries between these concerns, as well as their connection and relation to broader questions and circumstances. Built around a central curricular helix consisting of the tools, processes, histories, and discourses of graphic design and critical art-making, the Southland Institute is also a forum for inquiry into the processes, possibilities, and complications of higher education and its attendant structures and systems.

These fundamental strands are augmented by an evolving sequence of courses and workshops, including but not limited to: typography, moving image, economics, education, curation, landscape studies, writing, architecture, and sound. Connections are explored via work, writing, conversation, typographic studies, critique, and documentation. The program is intended to provide space and time in which participants can expand the spectrum and depth of their practices, develop the critical tools necessary to navigate and articulate the paradoxes and contradictions around them, and find the formal tools and contextual situations to convey these explorations.

Discussions in Exhibitions is part of the Southland Institute public events series. A public-ation through public action. Discussion open to all.

Discussions in Exhibitions has been invested since 2010 in considering ticketless exhibitions, and their limits, through publicly initiated discussions occurring from within. As a sporadic series of unsanctioned gatherings, the aim continues to be providing opportunities for situational dialogue on the choices which compose shows and characterize the work inside them, stimulated by the diverse perspectives of those in attendance. By extension an inquiry into, and representation of, what is public in these spaces becomes tangible in the process.

Propose a future discussion

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Installation Image: Evan Walsh