A Wished for and Welcome Guest
Featuring Kayla Jones, TJ Lemanski, Ariel Wood, Ted Carey, Rebecca Marino, Jules Buck Jones, Nom Ceramics (Rebeca Milton & Scott Proctor), Alexis Mabry, Emily Lee, Anika Carterfield, Michael Anthony Garcia, Mai Snow, David Culpepper, Valerie Chaussonnet, Ron Geibel, Jeremy Burks, Alex Diamond, Emily Cayton, Amy Scofield, and Robert Jackson Harrington
April 10th - May 22nd, 2021
On view Saturdays from 12-6 pm and by appointment
Closing Reception featuring a screening of our Video Open Call program from 2020: Saturday, May 22nd, 6-10 pm
Co-Lab Projects @ Glissman Road
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702
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They say the number 21 is symbolic of success in the completion of desires, the fulfillment of what is willed. It is the numeric symbol for new beginnings and new changes. They also say it is the weight in grams of the human soul.
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Five concrete cubes fit together to form a tunnel-like structure. Five massive concrete cubes fit together to form a tunnel-like structure, and allow things to move past physical impediments. Five massive, concrete cubes fitted together, above ground form a bridge-like structure that allows for an active process of joining together. These five massive, above ground, bridges of concrete structures are now our conduits, our play between indoors and outdoors, our space coming to life and coming together once more.
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A wish and a guest. A body and an experience, an architectural embellishment, the opacity of public and private desire. Lightness in mass and the play of touch. A wish and a guest. A space to receive and a space to breathe, and a space to share as we learn to share once more. A welcome intimacy of 21 old friends, of 13 years, of five cubes, and grass, and space. Of 13 years of more than 21, all who converge here in this open space of cubes and grass.
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They say the weight of a soul is so much more than just the grams the body expends in the final breath of life. The weight of the soul is everything that came before that packs perfectly into a measurement that we can conceivably understand. That the weight of a soul is determined by the years of new beginnings, changes, will, and success. Weight as measurement is like a space without inhabitants, it cannot be appraised simply by density, but by the lives that bring life to every space. Weight is not a simple number, but the accumulation of them, of everything that operates and has operated in contributing to challenges, successes, of everything beautiful and grotesque.
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Over the past year we have learned to operate in the presence of our absences. We have learned to build solidarity as a community without communing. We have grown resilient in our history. That history brings us to the present, and that present is a space both indoor and out, a space of a yard, of a tunnel, of a cube, of a new site and a new home. Our presence after so much absence is our resilience throughout our past forging with our present as we prepare to welcome once more.
Text by Director Leslie Moody Castro
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Co-Lab Projects is pleased to announce the opening of “A Wished for and Welcome Guest”, our first exhibition in and around our newly realized culvert gallery at the Glissman property. As a nod to our history, and in the sentiment of gathering our community once more, this reopening exhibition includes 21 artists who have shown with us in the past.
Please observe the following COVID precautions:
Wear a mask while at the check-in desk/bar and inside the gallery
No more than 4 individuals inside the gallery at a time
Social distance while outside and be conscious of others level of comfort regarding proximity and masks
Come early if you wish to be around less people and come later if you’re comfortable around more people
We encourage COVID testing before and after the event, testing is available for free through the City of Austin, CVS, and other locations around Austin. www.austintexas.gov/covid-testinfo