polaroids from the installation, Floating, Seth Gadsden

For the Floating I worked with the Redux Contemporary Art Center, Krist Mills, the College of Charleston Visual Arts Club, and
numerous other entities in the Charleston art scene to curate and produce a large group exhibition. I acquired a three month lease
on an old "Head Start" school that we had to renovate and turn into a temporary gallery space. I curated 17 artists both locally and
from across the country that included over 170 works of art. Every medium was present in the exhibition from film and installation
to painting and sculpture. I published a catalogue with exhibition and even sold a few t-shirts. It was a project of resourcefulness
and a community effort as I operated with a budget of less than 2000 dollars.

See the posters and postcards from the exhibition HERE.

See the catalogue from the exhibition HERE.

Check out these articles about the exhibition HERE.

envelope from the installation, Floating, Seth Gadsden

Realizing early in the process that I was not going to have enough time to make new work for the exhibition, I decided to make an
installation about the actual production of the exhibition. I very meticulously documented and saved every scrap of material that had
anything to do with the Floating in the above envelope: receipts, proposals, emails, lists, floorplans, etc. I also used a polaroid
camera to document the development of the space attempting to capture traces of its past and to accentuate its aesthetic strengths.
The night before the opening--after hanging/installing everyone's work and putting the finishing touches on the space--I opened the
envelope and arranged all of the materials onto my section of the wall with the polaroids into a large mess that I called an installation.

SEE the installation HERE.

SEE the polaroids up-close HERE.

floorplan from the installation, Floating, Seth Gadsden