Space to Place is a multidisciplinary exhibition of projects by students enrolled in Art 119, Spring 2021 taught by Professor Sholeh Asgary. 

In this visual arts seminar, speculative time was employed as a strategy to address various loci of power and empowerment situated both within and outside of postcolonial structures, empire and nationalism in relation to contemporary art movements, practices and dialogue. In such a way, speculative time can be seen as a strategy of reimagining time outside of the linear trajectory of Western culture. 

The projects in this exhibition consist of artworks in the forms of video, sound art, printmaking, 3d rendering and apparel design, illustration, photography, zines, performance, painting and drawing, research papers and a website. Much of these works are the result of multidisciplinary research projects and explorations, and the multitudinous forms these projects are presented in, speak to the ways that each student ultimately chose to process and synthesize weekly discussions, readings, and presentations. 

As a final project, each student proposed multiple ideas from which they developed a single project from, and for which they also designed a grading rubric. While for some, the development of an artist statement was part of their final project proposal, for others, it was important to share publicly, or to journal, or to work in an entirely new medium. In short, what you see in this exhibition may be a seedling of the work done, or the work to be done as existing beyond. 

This exhibition can be seen as a record of multifarious trajectories that converged at one point in time.