Root Division presents an exhibition of 30 artists exploring notions of vacated information. Highlighting the content of absence, these artists work with themes of censorship, value, memory and loss.
Using techniques of erasure, displacement, cancellation and extraction, the act of taking out information often gives new meaning to what is left. Simplifying or abandoning material can highlight essential content, provide codification, or stand as a subversive gesture.
Artists include Adam Whitney Day who scratches the surface off of currency and exchanges the 'worthless' paper for intact bills and Robin Johnston who weaves the last Morse Code message sent before the language was abandoned for the now standard Global Maritime Distress Safety System. Ann Mansolino explores the visual record of suppression by documenting Singaporean libraries' systematic censorship of photography books, Will Tucker has transformed a bubble maker into a machine that spits coal slurry, and Ramekon O'Arwisters will perform using only a wine glass and an Aunt Jemima figurine.
Peter Baldes
Taha Belal
Jan Blythe
Ross Campbell
Deric Carner*
Jon Clary* & Bruce Wilhelm
Julie Cloutier & Claire Nereim
James Davis
Adam Whitney Day
JRF
Jennifer Maria Harris
Ryan Hendon
Robin Johnston
Ryan Jones*
Forrest Lewinger
Ann Mansolino
Ramekon O’Arwisters
Piero Passacantando
Moshe Quinn
Michael J. Ryan
Jeff Schmuki
Travis LeRoy Southworth
James Tantum
Will Tucker
Hooper Turner
J. Parker Valentine
Allison Watkins
Julie Weitz
Jameson Zaerr
* Root Division Resident Artist