A PLACE TO VISIT V.2

Co-Curated with JIP

July 15 - September 15, 2020

Dubem Aniebonam, Ilana Harris-Babou, James Bascara, Fiona Buchanan, Lisa Corinne Davis, Nicki Deux, Courtney Garvin, Joudy, Maria Liebana, Cassandra Mayela, Felicita Felli Maynard, Lydia McCarthy, Eunwoo Nam, Anya Opshinsky, Kelsey Renko, Etta Sandry, Nikki Scioscia, Shristi Shrestha, Cory Siegler, Jessie Young, and Ziyi Wang

A Place to Visit was originally established to redistribute compassion and metaphorically
embrace the communities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its inception, the
structural apparatus has become home for combating systematic and social oppression. The
digital-born house takes temperature of the physical world and responds to it by forming
nuanced channels for evolutions of social and artistic processes.


We’ve been in isolation for months, longing for the carefree discoveries of interacting in person.
Fragmental and challenging conditions incite the imagination, carving out paths for new
possibilities. A Place to Visit demonstrates the flexibility and iterative processes of an exhibition
that is not tied to institutional thinking. We lean into the liminal beauty of online forms. Like
water, the internet’s framework holds the capabilities to birth anew, embrace many forms,
encapsulate a transcendental cool. Creativity is a survival tool that has been with us for millions
of years; at a moment where we long for a physical embrace, let the very bones of art-making,
which at its root is emotional, idiosyncratic and personal, impact your world.

The work in this volume of A Place to Visit inextricably expands on definitions of material, form,
and our senses. The house structure pronounces differences between each artist, and in those
in-between spaces, meaning exists. A Place to Visit deeply considers the idea of
online-exhibition making as a variable social process that plays out dependent on network and
device. The artists are creating in various time zones. Our home is in permanent transformation,
asserting that art is a three-way participatory interaction, environment to artist, artist to work,
work to viewer.