"polarities undone," a collaborative piece created by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant with Kyle Kyrnitszke, was on exhibit at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., as part of Exit Art's exhibition "Reactions." "Reactions" originated and was on view at Exit Art in New York City Jan. 26-April 20, 2002. As a cultural institution near the World Trade Center, Exit Art felt an urgency to present a collective expression of how the events of September 11 changed the behavior of people worldwide. People of all ages, from over twenty-five countries, among them Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Germany, Iceland, Pakistan, and Singapore submitted
their work.
"Reactions", has become part of the permanent collection of The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Selections from "Reactions" were shown Sept. 7 -
Oct. 26 in The Library of Congress' Great Hall exhibition, "Witness and Response: September 11th Acquisitions at The Library of Congress" in Washington, D.C.
The Library will make the entire Exit Art "Reactions" Collection fully accessible through the Library's award-winning educational Web site, www.loc.gov. The Collection will be physically available to on-site researchers at the Prints and Photographs Division's Reading Room. It will also be available to countless others outside the Library through projected exhibition loans to museums and libraries around the world.
In October, Gant presented an interactive talk at New York University's School of Visual Arts 16th Annual Conference "Art Remembers." Her presentation was titled "Remembering who we are: the self as subject."
