![]() ![]() We looked at art, books and objects related to regeneration of the environment, of the human body (surgery, medicine, death), and of society’s ills, including a library of books about social visionaries.Īlso during the Mend year, our publishing arm, Proteotypes, published a book of essays about the Brooklyn social visionary Alfred Tredway White, produced in collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society. We looked at the methods and tools of saving, recycling, conserving and archiving, from books to household refuse. In a culture that increasingly resorts to throwing things away when they break, we began by exploring the disappearing skills and tools of repair, from darning socks and repairing shoes to fixing watches and mending clothing, including stitching, spinning, and knitting. From mending a piece of fabric to pondering global scarcity, the yearlong exhibition of art, artifacts, books and events considered the varieties of fixing, healing, mending from a variety of perspectives and disciplines at a time when “fixing things,” from the mundane to the profound, seemed increasingly out of our reach. It was as the global economic collapse was gathering momentum that Proteus Gowanus launched the first exhibition of its 2008/09 theme, Mend.
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