Ian Strange: Disturbed Home

October 1, 2022–December 9, 2022

Curated by Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator

Ian Strange: Disturbed Home is a survey of the artist’s architectural interventions, including photographic and filmic interpretations of those structural works. Highlighting projects of the past twelve years and spanning geographies from Strange’s native Australia, to New Zealand, Japan, Poland, and the United States, including Cincinnati, Ohio, Strange’s provocative transformations of damaged or abandoned homes unlock themes of social upheaval and geographic displacement caused by a variety of factors—economic blight, environmental disaster, and social migrations.

In response to the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record, Strange is creating a new body of work in Cincinnati, highlighting the effects of environmental and economic conditions on homes in the region. In collaboration with the Hamilton County Landbank and assisted by students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Strange’s local interventions and their photographic documentation aim to generate discussion of Cincinnati history and the changing fates of neighborhoods, homes, and the populations who continue to dwell there.

Installed in the SITE 1212 galleries at the Art Academy, the exhibition includes photographs, films, and drawings presenting Strange’s unique artistic vision. Also included is a site-specific installation in the adjacent Art Academy Annex, offering further dimension to Strange’s longstanding engagement with ideas of home and domestic disturbance.

The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph, Ian Strange: Disturbed Home (Damiani 2022), edited and with essays by Kevin Moore, artistic director and curator of FotoFocus, and Britt Salvesen, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Download the Ian Strange: Disturbed Home Gallery Guide as a PDF.

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October 1, 2022
9:00am – 4:30pm

The 2022 Biennial Symposium starts Friday, September 30, with a Film Screening and Conversation featuring Dara Freidman’s Dancer, and continues through Sunday, October 2, with talks, discussions, and keynote addresses at Memorial Hall and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

9am	Breakfast
9:45am	Opening Remarks by Mary Ellen Goeke, FotoFocus Executive Director
10am	Introduction by Kevin Moore: Photographs are the Monuments of Our Online Visual Culture Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator
10:30am	Discussion of Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s Moderated by: Ariel Goldberg, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Writer and Curator, New York, NY, with panelists: JEB (Joan E. Biren), Photographer, Filmmaker, and Activist, Washington, D.C.; Lola Flash, Photographer, New York, NY; Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Co-coordinator, Lesbian Herstory Archives and Associate Dean, NYU Libraries, New York, NY; and Diana Solís, Photographer and Educator, Chicago, IL
11:30am	Artist Talk by Ian Strange Ian Strange, Transdisciplinary Artist, Perth, Australia
Noon	Lunch Break
1pm	Artist Talk by Jason Allen-Paisant Jason Allen-Paisant, Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
1:30pm	Discussion of On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith Co-moderated by Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, and Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, with artists: Mitch Epstein, Photographer, Holyoke, MA, and Xaviera Simmons, Artist, New York, NY
2:30pm	Conversation with Baseera Khan and Amara Antilla Amara Antilla, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Senior Curator at Large at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; with Baseera Khan, Artist, New York, NY. Previously scheduled with Ylinka Barotto, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Curator, Houston, TX
3:30pm	Keynote Lecture by Makeda Best: Devour the Land Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

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Ian Strange, Twenty-Five, 2017. Selected photographic work from TARGET. Documentation of site-specific intervention. © Ian Strange. Courtesy of the artist
Ian Strange and crew on site making TARGET, Perth, Australia. Photo by Elliot Strang
Ian Strange, Number Twelve, 2013. Selected photographic work from FINAL ACT. Documentation of site-specific intervention. © Ian Strange. Courtesy of the artist