current exhibition

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intermission museum of art (ima) is proud to present specious reasoning, featuring the collaborative work of jeffrey martín + david mccormick which represents the fourth and final artist exchange in ima’s volume ii series. specious reasoning opens on 27 june and will be featured through 14 august 2022.

specious reasoning features the new work, BLACK FIDDLER, a collaborative video developed by martín and [removed]; the 10 minute video features archival research, story, music and voiceover work by the collaborators and includes additional collaborations with beaux xavier (character artwork and animations) and lanese love (editor).

“plausible… but fallacious!  what if the real-life black fiddlers who played at monticello were super queer and engaged in over-the-top battles with other “family” bands?  it is, of course, a bit of historical (hysterical?) fiction, but the fiddlers of the scott and hemings families of monticello no doubt engaged in some music-making that was — [removed]; [removed]; top.

… the category is… black fiddle realness.“

future exhibition
 

3-16 october 2022
ima @ platforms project |
athens, greece

in case you missed it…

ouroboros |
ayesha kamal khan + catalina tuca + joshua j. araujo + mariangela ciccarello

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about ima

ima’s name references the question of open space: the flipping movement of a hand searching through archives, gaps in the pavement, performance interludes, tv-commercials, coffee breaks and silent pauses; all moments of unpoliced disruption that are typically [removed]; at its core, ima therefore proposes the museum as a site of uncertainty; a building without walls; a non-hierarchical collection of interdisciplinary narratives and voices; both a guest and a host; and an exercise in [removed]; it resists the architectural premise of power that underwrites the white cube, democratizing the exhibition in terms of access. instead, its architectural premise is that of lateral networks; its vision decentralized and participatory.