Terrain Biennial: The 2nd Terrain Biennial - expanding the scope
The 2nd Terrain Biennial expanded to an international site specific public art exhibition featuring 75 artists and 3 collectives at 60 locations in the United States and abroad in Denmark, Canada and Cambodia. The 2nd Terrain Biennial is supported by the Propeller Fund Grant, Guggenheim Foundation and Hatchfund Campaign.
Featured: Casey Whittier, My Promise/My Prison
Terrain Biennial 2015, Iowa City, IA
https://littlevillagemag.com/iowa-city-porches-public-art-terrain-biennial/
Excerpt from VIllage Mag
Revisiting familiar assigned qualities, “My Promise”/“My Prison” responds to the back and forth between the public and private spaces of porch and gallery. Considered as potential or as a kind of prison of expectation, handcrafted textiles were often added to a dowry. A craft that was passed on as “woman’s work” fashioned into chivalrous chain mail usurps both narratives in a kind of contemporary ceramic mash up.
On display throughout Iowa City, porches offer a public experience hinging upon private realms, not unlike the porch swings at Black Hawk Mini Park on Iowa City’s Pedestrian Mall. Synchronistically, the October issue of the Economist Groups’ 1843 publication of ideas, lifestyle and culture featured the porch as America’s pleasures and paradoxes on display, spanning epochs. The Terrain Biennial is happening in a local and global capacity, inviting neighbors to re-engage in the porch.
