Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitions. Let’s get your show in front of an audience.
See other Five-Minute Tours here.
Taking its cue from the poetry of Mina Loy, of infinite elastic explores time as a blurring of past, present, and future through a series of durational experiences with objects, photographs, and performances. The exhibition prioritizes rituals, cycles, patterns, and repetitions over numeric calculation and uses weaving, geology, and genealogy to illustrate disruptions in temporal logic and sequence. The works encourage slowness and deceleration to yield moments of observation and contemplation.
In addition to new work, Koehn and Harris have collaborated with local artists and thinkers on a series of events and texts that consider “time” from various disciplines. Contributors include Andrew Blocha (architect), Diana Davis (architect), Garland Fielder (experimental performer), Alicia Kahn, PhD (biostratigrapher), David Liakos, PhD (philosopher), Dean Liscum (writer), Elizabeth Miller, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT (integrative psychotherapist), Elizabeth Newkirk (pianist and writer), Kate Rubins, PhD (microbiologist and NASA astronaut), Kylie Sivley (photographer and editor), Kara Sivley (photographer and videographer), Isabella Mireles Vik (dancer, movement director, and performance artist), and Julia Claire Wallace (performance artist.)
Jeanette “Joy” Harris is a Houston-based artist, philosopher, and curator focused on the multi-dimensionality of performance and its intersection with philosophy. Her current project INHERITANCE is a series of performances, photographs, and objects that testify to the corporeality of loss, the urgency of reconciliation, and the necessity of reconfiguring the unimaginable. Joy has shown work in the US, UK, Italy, and The Netherlands and has presented research at institutions like the University of Cambridge (UK), La Sorbonne Université (FR), and the American Society for Aesthetics. Joy is an adjunct professor at the University of Houston and a co-author of Collaboration Among the Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Molly Koehn is an artist and maker located in Houston, TX. She received an MFA with an emphasis in fibers from Arizona State University, and her work carries on the delicate, expressive qualities of her BFA in drawing from Fort Hays State University. Melding a practice of weaving, printing, and sculpture, Koehn conjures the cycles of time to create alternate realities influenced by the built environment. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in several collections including the Houston Endowment’s permanent collection. In addition to keeping a studio practice, Koehn also teaches workshops and classes regularly.
