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SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH

EXHIBITION SPECS

Number of Works:
220 framed photographic works
Dimensions:
Varied
Space Requirement:
5,000 – 6,000 sq. ft.
Participation Fee:
$18,500 for 12 weeks
Shipping Costs:
Venue pays for incoming shipping
Insurance:
To be carried by venue
Exhibition Graphics:
Graphics package includes wordmark, proprietary fonts, label, and wall text information in digital format
Supporting materials:
A 382-page illustrated catalogue, produced by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; a commissioned thirteen-minute short film by John David Reynolds; fourteen videos featuring interviews with select artists; GIS map of “the South” with interactive features; trifold educational brochures with excerpts from essays and exhibition information

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
October 19, 2018 - March 2, 2019
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University
Raleigh, NC
https://gregg.arts.ncsu.edu/
September 5 - December 29, 2019
Power Plant Gallery, Duke University
Durham, NC
http://powerplantgallery.com/
September 6 - December 21, 2019
Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN
http://www.huntermuseum.org/
January 30 - April 26, 2020
The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Meridian, MS
https://www.msarts.org/
June 12 - September 6, 2020
Meridian Museum of Art
Meridian, MS
http://www.meridianmuseum.org/
June 12 - September 6, 2020
LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
http://www.lsumoa.org/
October 22, 2020 - February 14, 2021
Lake City Creative Alliance
Lake City, SC
https://www.artfieldssc.org/
May 21 - August 14, 2021
The Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College
Conway, AK
https://www.windgatemuseum.org/
September 10 - December 10, 2021
For more information, please contact Katie Hirsch: MccampbellKG@cofc.edu

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South is an unprecedented photography exhibition co-curated by Mark Sloan, director and chief curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and Mark Long, professor of political science, both of whom are on the faculty of the College of Charleston, in South Carolina.

Southbound embraces the conundrum of its name. To be southbound is to journey to a place in flux, radically transformed over recent decades, yet also to the place where the past resonates most insistently in the United States. To be southbound is also to confront the weight of preconceived notions about this place, thick with stereotypes, encoded in the artistic, literary, and media records. Southbound engages with and unsettles assumed narratives about this contested region by providing fresh perspectives for understanding the complex admixture of history, geography, and culture that constitutes today’s New South.

Southbound comprises fifty-six photographers’ visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty- first century. Accordingly, it offers a composite image of the region. The photographs echo stories told about the South as a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities. The project’s purpose is to investigate senses of place in the South that congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region.

Recognizing the complexity of understanding any place, let alone one as charged as the American South, the curators’ approach is transdisciplinary. The photographs are complemented by a commissioned video, an interactive digital mapping environment, an extensive stand-alone website, and a comprehensive exhibition catalogue. This publication draws on expertise from disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The history of the American South is among the most storied of any region in the world. As a result of the vitality of its culture and the diversity of its inhabitants—to say nothing about the salience of photography in the U.S.—the region has also come to be among the most photographed. Through the exhibition, video, remappings, website, and catalogue—separately and in tandem—the Southbound project charts new courses to expanded imaginings for the twenty-first century South.

Southbound is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The exhibition debuted in Charleston, SC simultaneously at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Fall 2018. Travel opportunities are available beginning in Spring 2019.

Various Artists

SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH

EXHIBITION SPECS

Number of Works:
220 framed photographic works
Dimensions:
Varied
Space Requirement:
5,000 – 6,000 sq. ft.
Participation Fee:
$18,500 for 12 weeks
Shipping Costs:
Venue pays for incoming shipping
Insurance:
To be carried by venue
Exhibition Graphics:
Graphics package includes wordmark, proprietary fonts, label, and wall text information in digital format
Supporting materials:
A 382-page illustrated catalogue, produced by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; a commissioned thirteen-minute short film by John David Reynolds; fourteen videos featuring interviews with select artists; GIS map of “the South” with interactive features; trifold educational brochures with excerpts from essays and exhibition information

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
October 19, 2018 - March 2, 2019
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University
Raleigh, NC
https://gregg.arts.ncsu.edu/
September 5 - December 29, 2019
Power Plant Gallery, Duke University
Durham, NC
http://powerplantgallery.com/
September 6 - December 21, 2019
Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN
http://www.huntermuseum.org/
January 30 - April 26, 2020
The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Meridian, MS
https://www.msarts.org/
June 12 - September 6, 2020
Meridian Museum of Art
Meridian, MS
http://www.meridianmuseum.org/
June 12 - September 6, 2020
LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
http://www.lsumoa.org/
October 22, 2020 - February 14, 2021
Lake City Creative Alliance
Lake City, SC
https://www.artfieldssc.org/
May 21 - August 14, 2021
The Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College
Conway, AK
https://www.windgatemuseum.org/
September 10 - December 10, 2021
For more information, please contact Katie Hirsch: MccampbellKG@cofc.edu

CATALOGUE

The Halsey Institute has produced a comprehensive catalogue to accompany the exhibition, including additional images by all exhibiting artists and a variety of essays offering a range of perspectives about the South. Southbound draws on the expertise of leading intellectuals and scholars of the Southern experience. Essayists include William R. Ferris, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, now Senior Associate Director for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina; Eleanor Heartney, a contributing editor for Art in America, distinguished art critic, and author of several seminal volumes on contemporary art; and John T. Edge, author and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.  Nikky Finney, Professor of Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and 2011 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, contributeed original content inspired by the exhibition’s photographs to the volume. 

The Southbound catalogue was awarded the 2019 Alice Award by Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. 

VIDEO

Filmmaker John David Reynolds was commissioned to produce a thirteen-minute documentary featuring interviews with select photographers and writers from the exhibition catalogue. He also produced video interviews with select photographers. Reynolds is an award -winning videographer who specializes in films about artists and the creative process.

INTERACTIVE MAP OF THE SOUTH

The Halsey Institute commissioned Dr. Rick Bunch, a geographic information science (GIS) and spatial cognition specialist, to design an interactive map of the South, representing everything from place names to data collected on chicken sales and churchgoers, among other topics. Available on interactive technology inside the exhibition space, this Index of Southerness allows viewers to move between data sets to arrive at a new understanding of the cultural geography of the South.

MICRO-WEBSITE

A stand-alone micro-website, southboundproject.org, connected to the Halsey Institute’s website was produced in conjunction with the exhibition. This site contains many more images by each photographer, links to essays, and additional information about the photographers and subjects of the images. 

 

EDUCATIONAL BROCHURE

A trifold brochure has been produced for the public to provide information about the exhibition, the artists, and excerpts from some of the essays. This free brochure will be given to each museum visitor.

SYMPOSIA

The Halsey Institute produced multiple symposia and panel discussions on the topics raised by Southbound to coincide with the exhibition. Topics have include documentary studies, literature, geography, history, religion, music, race and ethnicity, and globalization and identity. We are happy to provide assistance when planning a programming structure for venues hosting the exhibition.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Mark Sloan has been the director and chief curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston since 1994. Prior to his appointment to the Halsey Institute, Sloan was the associate director of San Francisco Camerawork and executive director of the Light Factory in Charlotte, N.C. He is also a practicing photographer whose works have been exhibited at many international venues, including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the American Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; and the Grand Palais, in Paris. He has curated dozens of photography exhibitions in his thirty- three year career, including No Man’s Land: Contemporary Photographers and Fragile Ecologies, featuring Edward Burtynsky, Emmet Gowin, and David Maisel.

Trained in Ireland, Spain, and the U.S., Mark Long has been professor of political science and geography at the College of Charleston since 2002. His research concerns itself with how we see political and cultural geographies; recent publications have explored street art and editorial cartoons. He has guest-curated several exhibitions for the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, including Simon Norfolk’s Et in Arcadia Ego, Pedro Lobo’s architecture of survival, and Stuart Klipper’s Antarctica.

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GALLERY HOURS (during exhibitions)
Monday - Saturday, 11am – 4pm
Open Thursdays until 7pm
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