Join us for a digital tour through our current exhibition, Co-Terminous, with curator Erin Espelie. Espelie will highlight the eight artists and their unique works that make up this group exhibition.
Join us for a digital conversation with Erin Espelie, the guest curator of our current exhibition. Espelie will tell us more about her work with NEST, their Environmental Futures project, and the curatorial vision behind Co-Terminous, which aims to traverse multiple disciplines and perspectives to investigate intersectional questions concerning the changing planet as it affects specific peoples, communities, wildlife species, and ecosystems in varying and inequitable ways. Moderated by Union Hall's Chief Curator, Arielle Myers, Erin will discuss the works she selected for Co-Terminous and each artists' unique approach to the themes she seeks to highlight.
About Co-Terminous:
Boundaries in time and space, so often alienating or abrupt, also offer a place for enmeshment, a recognition of assorted, inherent continuums. Artists here work to illuminate indiscernible thresholds, subtle rhythms of horizons, watermarks of catastrophe. Our shared environmental futures depend upon recognizing the particularities of loss and inequality, while also demanding a constant realignment of vantages, so justice becomes actionable. Our fortunes, our fates, our borders, our bodies are all co-terminous, and they require heightened perception to witness the fainter spectrum of what’s being lost and what could be gained.
About the curator:
Erin Espelie is an artist and writer whose poetic nonfiction films about science and the natural world have shown at the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and more. She is co-director of NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts and an assistant professor of Cinema Studies & the Moving Image Arts & Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.
More about her work in co-convening the Environmental Futures project: