Hypothetical Summer (HS) is a multi-format, practice-based research project examining the infrastructures supporting contemporary art's complex relations and its institutions. HS engages with various cultural actors that incorporate infrastructural analysis and action into their practices and programs. The current phase of HS is focused on novel exhibition design strategies. These strategies consider administrative operations, policy and protocol, communication convention-anticipation, and intra-institutional semantics as their design parameters and/or as sites of intervention. A report on this stage of HS and those involved will be publicly available in the Summer of 2025. A detailed overview of HS is available upon request.
2013 - 2022
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
Sandy Williams IV | Promising the Sky
1708 Gallery - 07.01.2022 - 08.14.2022
Elizabeth Orr | Single-Use Account
1708 Gallery - 05.06.2022 - 06.19.2022
Lilian Kreutzberger | loook&&feel surfacestricture
1708 Gallery - 03.04.2022 - 04.24.2022
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste | Set It Off
Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU + 1708 Gallery
co-curated with Amber Esseiva-Dominique - 10.29.2021 - 06.19.2022
Haseeb Ahmed | Interior Weathers
1708 Gallery - 09.03.2021 - 10.19.2021
Umber Majeed | Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Facts about the Earth)
1708 Gallery - 07.16.2021 - 08.14.2021
David Horvitz | (in all its different manifestations)
1708 Gallery - 05.07.2021 - 07.03.2021
Active-Intermission-Composite-Artifact (AICA) | Lily Cox-Richard, Vesna Pavlović, Jonathan Boutefeu and Marina Pinsky
1708 Gallery - 03.05.2021 - 04.24.2021
Liliana Farber | Proximal, Distal, Adrift
1708 Gallery - 02.28.2020 - 04.18.2020
Jesse Chun | enunciating silence and
1708 Gallery - 11.01.2019 - 12.08.2019
Xavier Mary | Deepwater Horizon
1708 Gallery - 09.06.2019 - 10.20.2019
Alan Ruiz | Infrapolitics
1708 Gallery - 05.16.2019 - 06.29.2019
Luba Drozd and William Lamson | A Continuous Stream of Occurrence
Knockdown Center curated by XP (Xavier Acarín and Park Myers) - 03.01.2019 - 04.28.2019
Massa Lemu | He Who Gave Us Teeth Should Give You Art to See: A Patois Bourgeois P.arty Manifesto
1708 Gallery - 10.26.2018 - 12.8.2018
Parametrics | Haseeb Ahmed + Daniel G. Baird, Jacques André, Jonathan Boutefeu, Lieven De Boeck, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, and Nadim Vardag
Tamanoir - 10.10.2015 - 10.12.2015
CCK-4 | Andreas Greiner and Armin Keplinger, Markus Hoffman, and Jacob Kirkegaard
Hessel Museum of Art - 03.29.2015 - 5.29.2015
Derek Frech | Secure Document
Actual Size - 10.11.2014 - 11.29.2014
Patsy Krebs | Fugue
Steamboat Springs Arts Council – 02.17.2013 - 03.28.2013
SELECT PROJECTS:
OPEN OFFICE.2 + ext.1708gallery.org | web and exhibition design by Ashley Moody
1708 Gallery - 07.16.2021 - 08.14.2021
Wilmer Wilson IV | ‘til bronze flows through the streets
1708 Gallery - 10.05.2020 - 12.20.2020
Open Office + Ext. 1708 | web and exhibition design by Junyun Chen
1708 Gallery - 01.04.2019 - 01.19.2019
Sable Elyse Smith
1708 Gallery with For Freedoms - 50 State Initiative - 11.12.2018 - 02.03.2019
SELECT OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS:
InLight 2021: Great Shiplock Park | Adama Delphine Fawundu, Antoine Williams, Ash Arder, Benjamin Kidder Hodges, Eric Millikin, Free Bangura, Isabella Whitfield, Mary Stuart Hall with the Virginia Union University Marching Band, Rachele Riley + Matt Hedt, Rashaun Rucker, and Senghor Reid x Hope Ginsburg + Nitika Achalam
1708 Gallery - co-curated with Tiffany E. Barber and Wesley Taylor - 11.12.2021 - 11.13.2021
InLight 2020: Safety and Accountability | Afrikana Independent Film Festival, Amy Smith, The Anderson, Barry O’Keefe, Black Matter Productions, Caitlin & Misha, Calvin Presents, Carl Patow, Christine Wyatt Amena Durant, Dustin Klein, Alex Criqui, Miguel Carter-Fisher & Josh Zarambo, The Kinfolk Effect, LaRissa Rogers, Mariana Parisca & Sandy Williams IV, New Negress Film Society, Performing Statistics, Stephanie J. Woods, and Victor Haskins & ImproviStory
1708 Gallery - co-curated with Emily Smith and Wesley Taylor - 11.12.2020 - 11.15.2020
InLight 2019: Chimborazo Park | Ilana Harris-Babou, Rob Carter, Castaway Collective, Logan Ryland Dandridge, True Harrigan, Victor Haskins, Inhabitants-TV, Carrie Morris, New Negress Film Society, Malcolm Peacock, Muthi Reed, Eva Rocha, Jonathan Rosen, Noah Scalin, Allicette Torres, and Sandy Williams IV
1708 Gallery - co-curated with Emily Smith and Wesley Taylor - 11.15.2019 - 11.16.2019
SELECT TEXTS:
Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine – Glasstire (author, online)
Olivia Erlanger, Space City, and Infrastructure – BURNAWAY (author, online)
Refined Vision: Monira Al Qadiri – Art Papers (author, print + online)
Algorithmic Extremes in Terram in Aspectu – ON CURATING (author, print + online)
Lips Together Teeth Apart – The Cure - Komplot (contributing author, print)
aCCeSsions – CCS Bard (co-founder and commissioning editor, online)
Dear Helen – CCS Bard (contributing author, print)
Horvitz: Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film (Afterall Books / One Work) – 1708 (print)
LookHERE: For Freedoms and Community Conscience - Sable Elyse Smith, LookSEE, 2018 (author, online)
Patsy Krebs: Fugue – Steamboat Springs Arts Council + Oehme Graphics (editor and author, print)