Sweet Corruptions, Part II 2012-2013
Lynden Sculpture Garden
June 2 - August 25, 2013
From 2013-2015 Sweet Corruptions took on new and expanded forms at institutions across the country: Emilie Clark, The Nevada Museum of Art; Around the Table: Food, Creativity, Community, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Women, Nature, Science, Emilie Clark: Sweet Corruptions, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI
Sweet Corruptions, Part II, continued with the concerns of Part I (see description on next Project page) but was extended to investigate the context in which the work was to be exhibited. For the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the exhibition came out of a residency at the Lynden and included an outdoor aquaponic research station sculpture, an installation of food waste and numerous drawings and paintings. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, with essays by Veronica Roberts and Polly Morris. The Research Station is now part of the Lynden's permanent collection and is on view during the summer and fall season. The following is an excerpt from Lynden's press release. The full essay can be read at http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/current
Clark’s project at Lynden has been shaped by her visits to Milwaukee over the past year. Her installation in Lynden’s dining room--the one room of the house that remains as it was when the Bradleys were in residence—is a kind of memento mori, re-animating the space with the relics of meals past. Clark’s original plan to build a functional field research station on the grounds grew, after visiting Milwaukee and many of its urban farms last year, to include an aquaponic system (incorporating fathead minnows from Lynden’s Big Lake) and a trial garden. Ellen Richards corresponded with young women interested in science, and Clark is replicating this part of Richards’s practice by collaborating with Alice’s Garden, SeedFolks Youth Ministry, and Urban Underground’s Fresh Plaits program to create the garden. This spring, Clark and her Milwaukee collaborators are planting and tending seeds in their respective cities and exchanging information via email. They will come together to plant the garden during Clark’s residency at Lynden in the last week of May, and the garden will form the basis of an ongoing community collaboration.
This exhibition and the projects surrounding it are generously supported by a grant from the Brico Fund.
Sweet Corruptions, Part II, continued with the concerns of Part I (see description on next Project page) but was extended to investigate the context in which the work was to be exhibited. For the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the exhibition came out of a residency at the Lynden and included an outdoor aquaponic research station sculpture, an installation of food waste and numerous drawings and paintings. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, with essays by Veronica Roberts and Polly Morris. The Research Station is now part of the Lynden's permanent collection and is on view during the summer and fall season. The following is an excerpt from Lynden's press release. The full essay can be read at http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/current
Clark’s project at Lynden has been shaped by her visits to Milwaukee over the past year. Her installation in Lynden’s dining room--the one room of the house that remains as it was when the Bradleys were in residence—is a kind of memento mori, re-animating the space with the relics of meals past. Clark’s original plan to build a functional field research station on the grounds grew, after visiting Milwaukee and many of its urban farms last year, to include an aquaponic system (incorporating fathead minnows from Lynden’s Big Lake) and a trial garden. Ellen Richards corresponded with young women interested in science, and Clark is replicating this part of Richards’s practice by collaborating with Alice’s Garden, SeedFolks Youth Ministry, and Urban Underground’s Fresh Plaits program to create the garden. This spring, Clark and her Milwaukee collaborators are planting and tending seeds in their respective cities and exchanging information via email. They will come together to plant the garden during Clark’s residency at Lynden in the last week of May, and the garden will form the basis of an ongoing community collaboration.
This exhibition and the projects surrounding it are generously supported by a grant from the Brico Fund.