Prologue

January 31, 2025
6:30–10:00 PM

Location: Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti


Join CMA at The Pizzuti for the second evening of Prologue, a new program series engaging the past and future of CMA’s satellite location at 632 Park Street. This series offers visitors a sneak peek into The Pizzuti, where a new pop-up installation engages the building’s history as the former headquarters of a fraternal society that catered to traveling salespeople. The evening opens with a conversation at 7:00 PM between art historian Faye Raquel Gleisser and artist David L. Johnson, whose Loiter series is featured in the installation.

From 8:00–10:00 PM, come out for Errant Forms X Nesting, a DJ series curated by Love Higher (Reg Zehner). Cash bar sponsored by Watershed Distillery.

This event is free with registration.

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Prologue Lineup

SPEAKERS

Faye Gleisser (she/her) is Associate Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she is an interdisciplinary art historian and curator of 20th and 21st century art, specializing in visual and material histories of racial formation, surveillance, and lawfare. Her first book, Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, 2023), examines guerrilla art, policing, and state power. Elsewhere, Gleisser's scholarship has appeared in Art Journal, Artforum, Journal of Visual Culture, Aperture, Women & Performance, and ASAP/J, and is forthcoming in October and the Journal of Curatorial Studies. In 2023, she was awarded a Kinsey Institute Research Fellowship, in support of her current book project, “The Color of Hormones,” which investigates medical risk management, hormonal knowledge, and somatic abolitionist praxis in contemporary art.


David L. Johnson is an artist working in New York City, utilizing photography, video, found and stolen objects, and public installation to address the spatial politics of cities. His work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and Artists Space, among other venues. Johnson is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and holds a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches sculpture at the Cooper Union.
DJS

Curator of Errant Forms: Love Higher
Host of Nesting: Skylab Gallery

Residing between Ohio and New Jersey, Love Higher is a dynamic DJ and producer with an eclectic range that spans footwork, afro-funky, gqom, techno, club and beyond. Having grown in the Ohio/Midwest nightlife scene, Love Higher’s beginning started with Verge.fm, an internet radio station that ran from 2020-2022. As a member of Blessed Up Gang, a Black DJ collective rooted in Ohio, as well as Errant Forms (OH), Club Hysteria (NJ), a global club collective and SLICK DOWN (NYC), their influence in organizing various panels, workshops and party series stretch far and wide. They have DJ mixes released on pivotal series such as JEROME Mixfiles, BLUSH, Daisychain, and Somersault Records. In June they released their first original EP, “An Ode To..,” a cross-section between club, and techno. You can find their music on their bandcamp and soundcloud.
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