Dealing With The Couch

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dealing with the couch

by Dyer Rhoads and Arielle Azymuth
with Jim Fletcher as The Couch
banjo by Lucas Hedges
pillow by Nina Carelli

For Ten Thousand Sprats To Apprehend A Whale
Curated by Emma John and Anna Queen
Pascal Hall, Rockport, ME (86 Pascal Ave.)

Works by
Travis Morehead
Jenny Zoe Casey
Meg Hahn
Juan Manuel Pinzon
Ryosuke Kumakura
Diana Brisca
Emma John
Anna Queen

The show title, taken from an excerpt in Emily Ogden’s essay How to Catch a Minnow (2022) spiks literally about schools of herring splitting around an orca whale, making visible the whale’s submerged form. Conceptually, it is about the act of looking at the small, mundane moments like “switch[ing] loads of laundry… check[ing] whether it will rain, read[ing] some book…” in order to create pressure lines that map a suggestion of greater meaning. The big moment, the epiphany or “lightning strike” as Ogden says, may only ever lay in the peripheries. It is always just out of plain sight.