Community Slide Show

Community Slide Shows are one-night performances which feature open calls to members of the community to bring, project, and share collections of photographic slides in a gallery setting. Each projection offers a view to a personal or institutional history, with narratives as distinct as the individuals behind the pictures. Audience members are able to share their personal histories, as well as sort through and project slides available within the installation. For older audiences, these references to medium-specific sensory perceptions evoke nostalgia, and recollections associated with earlier modes of experiencing images. For younger audiences, they provide an introduction to the antiquated slide show experience. Images feature four community slide shows organized between 2015-2018 at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN, SECCA in Winston-Salem, NC, The Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, and Columbus State University in Columbus, GA.