Curatorial Projects
2020. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985
As a 2020 Center for Craft curatorial fellow I curated the exhibition The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 . This exhibition highlighted women who worked with technology and textiles before the rise of personal computing. Works by Janice Lourie, Sonia Sheridan, Sonya Rapoport, Lia Cook, and Katherine Westphal, illustrate the shared concerns and approaches that unite textiles and technology. The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
You can read more about the exhibition as well as view installation images here.
2016. Cock, Paper, Scissors
This project was co-curated with David Evans Frantz and Lucas Hilderbrand; it opened at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles, CA) and traveled to the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY). "Cock, Paper, Scissors" brought together works by an intergenerational group of fifteen queer artists who explore the collaged page or the scrapbook with diverse, erotically inclined tactics. Drawing from both archival collections and contemporary practices, this exhibition examined how the boom in queer publishing from the era of gay liberation to the present resulted in worldmaking projects in which imagery was remixed and reimagined. This exhibition emphasizes the craft aspect at the heart of collage practice: the pleasure in the tactility of cutting, affixing, and smoothing and links the erotically inclined with handmaking.
As a 2020 Center for Craft curatorial fellow I curated the exhibition The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 . This exhibition highlighted women who worked with technology and textiles before the rise of personal computing. Works by Janice Lourie, Sonia Sheridan, Sonya Rapoport, Lia Cook, and Katherine Westphal, illustrate the shared concerns and approaches that unite textiles and technology. The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
You can read more about the exhibition as well as view installation images here.
2016. Cock, Paper, Scissors
This project was co-curated with David Evans Frantz and Lucas Hilderbrand; it opened at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles, CA) and traveled to the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY). "Cock, Paper, Scissors" brought together works by an intergenerational group of fifteen queer artists who explore the collaged page or the scrapbook with diverse, erotically inclined tactics. Drawing from both archival collections and contemporary practices, this exhibition examined how the boom in queer publishing from the era of gay liberation to the present resulted in worldmaking projects in which imagery was remixed and reimagined. This exhibition emphasizes the craft aspect at the heart of collage practice: the pleasure in the tactility of cutting, affixing, and smoothing and links the erotically inclined with handmaking.
Publications
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2020. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 (Ashville: Center for Craft, 2020).
2020. “Techno-Futurism in the Jewelry of Mary Ann Scherr,” 45 Stories in Jewelry, Barbara Gifford ed. (New York: Museum of Art and Design, 2020), forthcoming. 2019. "Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture Influenced Interior Design," With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985, Anna Katz, ed. (New Haven and Los Angeles: Yale University Press and MOCA, 2019), 2019. “Unwoven: Gender Binaries in Cloth and Computing,” Ahree Lee: Pattern Code, (Los Angeles: Women’s Center for Creative Work, 2019). 2018. Recurring Aesthetics, Emergent Traditions: Wendell Castle’s Continued Relevance to Corporate Culture. The Journal of Modern Craft. 2016. Cock, Paper, Scissors. Co-editor, with David Evans Frantz and Lucas Hilderbrand, (exhibition catalog, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives) |
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© Kayleigh Perkov, 2020. All images belong to myself or have been taken from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License