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Opening reception: Thursday, Sep. 30, 7-9pm
Understanding A Whale Fall/Whale Watch is a store wide exhibition at Adobe Books that represents a process of inquiry, primarily into whales, with occasional tangents taken to related topics and site specific investigations. Through the representation of research and its methods, Carrie Hott makes visible the action searching and being guided by curiosity in order to orient and understand. In the back room, Understanding A Whale Fall represents an interior space that is the site for a personal ongoing investigation into whales and their history. Whale Watch, in the windows of the Adobe Books Parlor, is a two-part installation and participatory project that broadens the scope of the backroom investigation and brings an additional focus onto the surrounding city and its history. The storewide exhibition nods to the communal atmosphere of Adobe Books, which draws inquisition and reflection in various forms, by visualizing the process of searching and inviting visitor contributions in the form of log recordings throughout the store.
Closing event: Saturday, November 6, 7-9pm
The exhibition will conclude with a closing whale watch event that will begin with a casual walk, or land 'whale watch', in the area surrounding Adobe Books. Following the walk, a reading will take place in the store in collaboration with Invisible City Audio Tours, a Bay Area project that aims to provide alternative ways to experience urban landscapes. Among other readers TBA, Carrie Hott will read, author L.J. Moore will read a new piece written specifically for the exhibition, and visitors can volunteer to read their log entries or other pieces.
Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Oakland, California. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, she grew up in Phoenix and received her B.F.A. from Arizona State University in 2003 before moving to the bay area where she received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and non-profits in Arizona, Germany, the UK. Hott has completed artist residencies at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and Artstation in Rostock, Germany. In October 2010, she will be the artist-in-residence at the Philadelphia Art Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. (http://www.sitstillwithcarriehott.com/index.html)
Exhibition project curated by Devon Bella.
