Allegories of Inertia
photos by EG Schempf and Lilah Powlas
curated by Yashi Davalos
at The Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery ( KCMO) | Sept. 27th - Nov. 9th
PRESS: Sixty Inches from Center, KC Studio
Allegories of Inertia questions personal simulation and performativity. We as individuals investigate virtue signaling and karmic gravity when considering mobility, so naturally, this influences our sense of time and trajectory. The gallery is designed to reflect different experiences with time, allegorically as “competitors” within liminal space, from the perspective of broken time, and in allegorical reference to the ’96 Summer Olympics breaking infrastructural time in Atlanta, GA. In nationally including global tourism through the black belt south, all simulations of social ecologies were broken and fragmented in the rush to expansion. This, in many ways is meant to foreshadow what is to come of infrastructural time and performativity as Kansas City prepares for the hyper-development wave, post FIFA 2026. Allegories of Inertia investigates true occupancy of time-based space via performance.
exhibting artists:
Caleb Jamel Brown (BKNY/ATL), Yulie Urano (KCK), Shawn Bitters (KCMO), Marie Bannerot McInerney (KCMO), Noelle Choy (KCMO), Kandy G Lopez (FLA), Alexis Borth (KCMO)
https://charlottestreet.org/exhibition/allegories-of-inertia/
Programming:
Exhibition Opening Reception Friday, September 27, 6:00-9:00 PM | Charlotte Street Gallery Performance of ENTOS by Alexis Borth | 7:00 PM Former Charlotte Street Resident Alexis Borth presents ENTOS, a new visual art installation and live dance performance exploring the pieces of ourselves we choose to expose and withhold. In creating movement for this performance, as well as film and sound in tandem, all pieces live together in a constructed world, but with their own individual traits and characteristic.
Horizontal Floor Exercise w/ Vaughan W. Harrison & EleveN2wenty2
a parody of the medaling ceremony of the olympic gymnastics floor exercise, this program serves as exhibition activation through a chorale performance.
3:00 PM on Saturday November 9, Vaughan W. Harrison, in collaboration with the vocal trio EleveN2wenty2, will be performing three songs:
“Weep, O Mine Eyes” by John Bennet, “Ubi Caritas” by Ola Gjeilo, and an original arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” music directed by Vaughan W. Harrison.