Call + Response
The context
In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases played by different musicians in which the second phrase is a commentary on or response to the first.
Named for this term, Call + Response is a collaboration between writers and visual artists: the writer provides the call, the artist provides the response. The result is paired works that resonate with each other and demonstrate the interplay of artistic media.
My Role
I was invited to participate in the inaugural exhibition and had the pleasure to be paired with artist, Ian MacLean Davis. Here’s what the media said of our collaboration:
In many instances, the words surpass the visuals—as in Christian Howard’s “Spaghetti Western,” in which watching a cowboy flick on a hospital TV makes the writer contemplate mortality, and which is paired with an abstract, metallic print by Ian MacLean Davis. - Maura Judkis, Washington City Paper.
Call + Response was co-curated by William John Bert and Kira Wisniewski.