*It’s hard not to see time as a collection of unkept promises. This isn’t about entitlement, it’s about placing a healthy expectation on the future. We have to see something and feel it before it can truly exist. How hard can you laugh to keep from crying? What’s the line between surprise and disgust?
I can’t help but be disappointed but I keep making plans. So…what does that make me? A survivor? A clown? A nobody? Or an expression of a beating heart - the same heart that murmurs, pumps, and back flows within every room on earth.
Against all odds.
I’m sorry I can’t offer us more. It’s never one persons job to change the world, but perhaps a series of small sparks that serve to kindle a slice of our eternal something.
Let’s name her “Today”
If you’re reading this I’ll assume you chose to breathe again. Maybe it was an accident but I’ll count it as a W for both of us.
Good luck.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elliot Reed (b.1992) is an artist, based in New York working across video, dance, performance, and sculpture. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He received his MA in Choreography from Master EXERCE ICI-CCN in Montpellier, France, and is a member of The Whitney Museum ISP 23-24 cohort.
Elliot is a 2019 danceWEB scholar, 2019–20 Artist in Residence at the prestigious Studio Museum in Harlem and part of the museum’s permanent collection. Reed was also the recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include anonymous gallery (2023), Kunsthaus Glarus (2021,) JACK Quartet (2021), Metro Pictures (2021), MoMA PS1 (2020/21), OCD Chinatown (2021), The Getty Center (2018), Hammer Museum (2016), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (2018), The Broad (2017), and performances in Tokyo, Osaka, London, Mexico City, Vienna, and Hamburg.
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ABOUT A2
a2 is a "public art" initiative created through access to a storefront window on the edge of New York City’s Soho and Chinatown. Developed by anonymous gallery, with support from R13, each presentation will feature one artwork from renowned artists who are known for often making challenging and thoughtfully conceptual statements.
Working in close association with artists, estate representatives, and collaborators, the project seeks to not only highlight a singular example of artwork, but to inform a passing audience of the artists’ history and significance through various online and in-person activations. Exploring each artists’ contributions to the history of art, fashion, music, architecture, and the city at large, a2 is an opportunity for unexpected discovery and engagement.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Elliot Reed .