On Wednesday 15 January 2020, Publics and Shimmer invite you to join New York based sculptor, performer, and writer Gordon Hall for a reading from their new book OVER-BELIEFS. With others, Hall will also give a performance to celebrate the launch of the book in Helsinki. Especially for Publics and Shimmer, Hall made three small sculptures which bilocate in each location for the duration of their partnership. This event marks the beginning of Publics Parahosting of Shimmer over the course of 2020.

OVER-BELIEFS Collected Writing 2011-2018 brings together eight years of essays, performance scripts and interviews alongside essays from the exhibition curators with a forward by Sarah Workneh, co-director of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Published on the occasion of THROUGH AND THROUGH AND THROUGH, curated by Roya Amirsoleymani and Kristan Kennedy, commissioned and presented by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon from June 8-August 10, 2019. Edited by Spencer Byrne-Seres. Designed and Printed by Gary Robbins / Container Corps.

Gordon Hall is a sculptor, performer, and writer based in New York. Hall has presented solo exhibitions at EMPAC (2014), Foxy Production (2014), Temple Contemporary (2016), The Renaissance Society (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center (2019), and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2019). Hall’s sculptures and performances have been exhibited in a variety of group settings including Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2010), SculptureCenter (2012), Movement Research (2012), Brooklyn Museum (2014), White Columns (2015), Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), Hessel Museum at Bard College (2015), Chapter NY (2015), Art in General (2016), Wysing Arts Centre (2017), Abrons Arts Center (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park (2017), The Drawing Center (2018), David Zwirner New York (2018), and the Verge Center for the Arts (2019).

Hall has organized lecture-performance programs at MoMA PS1(2012), Recess (2013, 2014), The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center (yearly, 2012 -2016), Interstate Projects (2017), Brooklyn Academy of Music (2017), and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, producing a series of lectures and seminars in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Hall’s books include Reading Things—Gordon Hall on Gender, Sculpture, and Relearning How To See (Walker Art Center, 2016), AND PER SE AND (Art in General, 2016), Details (Walls Divide Press, 2017), The Number of Inches Between Them (MIT, Printed Matter, 2019), and OVER-BELIEFS Collected Writing 2011-2018 (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art/Container Corps, 2019).

On the edge of Rotterdam’s port, Shimmer is an exhibition space that operates with a studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. Their current expanded exhibition is Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer with Zarouhie Abdalian, Gwenneth Boelens, Dean Bowen, Liu Chao-tze, Joseph Grigely, Gordon Hall, Ian Kiaer, Elena Narbutaite, Kate Newby, Shanta Rao, Katie West, and Ma Qiusha. Alongside this are platforms such as the events program Sunday Mornings With and the online mixtapes On the Waves With as a means to move through personal and public space. Shimmer is co-initiated by Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma in February 2018.