Ad(d) Hoc

mutable, dynamic, improvisatory, and additive spring 2023 programming

JANUARY 9 – MARCH 23, 2023

MAIN GALLERY & MEZZANINE

Spring 2023 at the Hanes Gallery features a diversity of programming, to include multiple video installations and three short residencies with visiting artists. Ad(d) hoc not only describes the overall theme of the semester’s programming but the equally improvisatory and additive nature of the artwork being shown in the gallery.

For more information on events associated with each show, please visit our events page or the hyperlinks connected to each artist description.

January 9 – February 10

In the Main Gallery, Hanes is presenting the recently restored video work, Flumen Orationis (from The Principalities), by the late Terry Adkins. This 41 minute video incorporates audio from Martin Luther King and Jimi Hendrix in juxtaposition to archival images of early flight exploration. (On loan from Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC.)

Concurrent with and alongside Adkins’ work, we’ve allotted space for a flux of diverse sound-based performances, presentations and events titled, Sound Phase. Led by students, faculty and staff the events will include cross-disciplined events in music, poetry, sound projects, and vinyl nights.

February 13-22

In collaboration, the WFU Kenan Chair in the Humanities Laura Mullen and Hanes Gallery are hosting performance artist, poet, writer and visual artist Ronaldo V. Wilson. Wilson will use the gallery as a venue for performances, events, exhibition, and interactions.

February 27 – March 17

Guyanese-American artist, curator, co-founder of Aljira (Center for Contemporary Art in Newark), and writer Carl E. Hazlewood will occupy much of Hanes Gallery with a project called Blackhead Anansi: Constellations, to create a large in situ work while interacting with students and faculty, and exhibiting examples of other work.

March 22-23

Brooklyn-based artist Melissa Godoy Nieto will present four iterations of her Refractional Projections. These dynamic light projection performances of color, shape and movement are created using gels, objects, and various materials with vintage overhead projectors.