Turnstones

This book was published to commemorate Oregon Contemporary's tenth Curator in Residence season, led by Lucy Cotter. Her season, titled Turnstones, recalls how every structure that has sedimented over time contains another possibility, and seeks to evoke that which becomes the means to an act of turning. It responded to a year of political crisis that marked a transition into the unknowable conditions of a global pandemic. Bringing together artists who refuse the given vocabulary and instead forge new paradigms, this season featured three exhibitions and a live performance that took place in 2021-22. Turnstones is a word found in a poem that, being unfamiliar, offers the freedom to (re)?imagine.