I love the shit out of you, kid.
A solo exhibtion by maci kociszewski @ dvaa
Exhibition Runs: June 27th - July 25th, 2021
About the exhibition:
It starts with a line. I love the shit out of you, kid.
“Life with my mom was and is punctuated by this line often. This project did not intentionally begin here, but it is where I keep returning, and has become the line that starts, ends, and runs through the exhibition’s entirety. It is the line from which I have explored and curated different types of lines: cracks, intervals, faultlines, thresholds.” – Maci Kociszewski
I love the shit out of you, kid. By Maci Kociszewski Incorporates several forms of individual direct action, both as visual elements and participatory workshops. Kociszewski asks for and invites collaboration, participation, and vulnerability from those involved in the curation process, and from the audience. Crossing the lines between art and harm reduction, art as harm reduction, and art about harm reduction, I love the shit out of you, kid. offers peeks into the practice of individual and community care. Peeks that look into the lines of private and public spaces. Peeks that look back and ask us: what already lives in the narrow spaces between our surfaces, beyond the superficial? And asks us: what else can live there? And how?
Line:
noun, a horizontal row of written or printed words
verb, stand or be positioned at intervals along
Crack:
noun, a vulnerable point
verb, open slightly
Interval:
noun, a pause or break in activity; a space between two things; a gap
Faultline:
noun, a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences
Threshold:
noun, the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested
Crossing the line:
idiom, to go beyond what is proper or acceptable
I love the shit out of you, kid. will be on view in Gallery 1 at Da Vinci Art Alliance beginning June 27th and will be available as a video walkthrough shortly after.
About the Artist:
Maci Kociszewski is practicing practicing. Trying their hands at community care and navigating conflict. They like to use their hands as well as technology to make work: paper mache, experimental video, reflective comic-like drawings. They would like to be more handy with tools, and hands-on with collaborative projects. Their practice is trying, and they are trying to practice.
