Word: stashed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What’s your opinion on the “negative” premise of STASH? Is attempting to exhibit student art it is a frustrating process...
...first objects that you see on the floor when you walk into the STASH exhibit, in the Adams House Art Space, is a ketchup-stained plate inside an 11” by 11” one-gallon Ziploc bag. Where else could you find not only a dirty plate, but also Pez dispensers, lychee candy wrappers, an old sandwich, Radiohead’s “OK Computer,“ fortune cookies and bank receipts in re-sealable plastic bags, arranged artistically in a room...
Organized by Carla M. Ceruzzi ’02 and Luke C. Marion ’02, both art board members of the Harvard Advocate, STASH is ultimately art for students by students. Ceruzzi says that “[Marion and I] wanted to challenge the expectations placed on our shows—expectations about which student artists would be represented, what kind of work would be shown, how it would be displayed, etc. Our art shows in the past have mostly shown work done for VES classes by VES concentrators.” The very premise of STASH involves...
Tucked away into a high-ceilinged, rectangular room of Adams House, the show at first glance looks like a strange collection of articles one would put into a time capsule—a stash. Never was an exhibit more true to its name. But STASH is much more than simply an array of multi-colored objects that strike the eye—it is a revealing, thought-provoking and self-declared experiment on the Harvard student body that allows its viewers to draw their own conclusions about the participants and their submissions. The fact that the contributing artists of STASH...
...STASH is also an interactive exhibit: viewers are free to wander around the room and gaze at the objects, some of which are mounted on the drab gray walls, some divided from others and some even dangling in midair, in an otherwise dingy and barren room. According to Ceruzzi, “I wanted to be able to take the objects out of the bags if necessary, to see them better, but still preserve the concept of all of the objects fitting within a certain space.” Bare lightbulbs on the ceiling illuminate the sections of the display...