The Herndon Gallery at Antioch College presents Disappearing Acts, an official 2014 FOTOFOCUS Biennial exhibition venue, opening September 5, 2014 and running through November 14, 2014.  Co-curated by Charles Fairbanks and Jennifer Wenker, Disappearing Acts brings together for the first time the works of filmmaker Basma Alsharif (Palestine/USA) and photographer Eric William Carroll (USA).  Alsharif and Carroll use filmmaking and photography less to represent the world than toperform absence and reify nostalgia.  Disappearing Acts are photographic performances of the human psyche, collective memories captured on film and developed in a darkroom.

On Friday, September 12, 2014, 7-9pm, an opening reception, screening, and auto-hypnosis performance by Basma Alsharif will be held in the gallery.  An artist talk/reception with Eric William Carroll will be held in the gallery on Friday, October 24, 2014, 7-9pm.  A diazotype process workshop will be held with Carroll on Saturday, October 25, 2014, 9am-5pm in Glen Helen Nature Preserve.  All events are free and open to the public.

A constructed 12’ x 13’ darkroom replete with a futuristic/obsolete revolving darkroom door sits empty within the gallery space with only the ghosts of it’s past present within: floor to ceiling photograms of once-requisite (now unnecessary) darkroom equipment: enlargers, wire racks, chemicals, pans, tubes.  

Learn more about the exhibit here:

http://www.antiochcollege.org/news/archive/antioch-college%E2%80%99s-herndon-gallery-opens-disappearing-acts