Harvest
Michael Reinsch
August 8th-29th
- August 8th: Fake Potatoes at 3:00 PM.
- August 15th: A Plant Will Tend to Grow In the Direction of Light at 8:00 PM (to coincide with the 8:17 PM sunset).
- August 22nd: Reception and performance of Public Drunkeness 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- August 29th: Public Drunkenness 3 PM, closing reception
Harvest - an exhibition of painting, sculptures and performances. Based on ideas of the Harvest, Reinsch’s work harkens back to the traditional and medieval, while celebrating modern farming and recent agricultural developments, exploring both the process and products of harvest and its impacts on human lives and identities. Placing this exploration in the context of climate change and over-consumption–and their impacts on the individual and collective psyche–this body of work is made up of contradictions and revelations.
August 8, Faked Potato
The artist Michael Reinsch will plant a large quantity of fake potatoes in a 4’x 8’
Raised garden bed. These fake potatoes will be planted while a poem about laziness
Is composed on the fly.
August 15 , A Plant Will Tend to Grow in the Direction of Light
A poem composed on the fly from Barack Obamas book “The Audacity of Hope.” Will be performed as the artist Michael Reinsch plants 24 small powered on flashlights in a grow box. These flashlights will be left to die.
August 29, The Drunkard's Cloak
Michael Reinsch will wear a used whiskey barrel with cut out for head, and arm holes, while he performs a poem on the fly celebrating the over abundance of alcohol. Advertising, personal stories of great times, as well as the struggles of substance abuse and tragedies of lives lost
Harvest is made possible by Haines & Friends Visual Arts Program and is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Arts Access Fund.