Prospect New Orleans is thrilled to announce the sixth edition of our triennial, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home open November 2, 2024 - February 2025
Curated by Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson
Historically, New Orleans has been regarded as a city deeply rooted in its past. For Prospect.6, Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson posit New Orleans as a globally relevant point of departure for examining our collective future as it relates to climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home. Prospect New Orleans is thrilled to open its sixth iteration of the triennial, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, opening to the public in New Orleans on Saturday, November 2, 2024 until Sunday, February 2, 2025. Continuing its legacy as the longest-running, citywide contemporary art triennial, Prospect.6 will feature the work of 51 artists spanning approximately 20 venues and unconventional spaces. The vast majority of the works on view will be newly commissioned, with an emphasis on large-scale and ambitious installations in institutional, unconventional, and public spaces. This year will also mark the US debut of internationally-acclaimed works by six of the participating artists.
With regard to New Orlenians as Prospect’s first audience, the Co-Artistic Directors are inspired by the city’s unique ability to offer poignant lessons and models for how to live in constant negotiation with a warming planet, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies. The exhibition urges consideration of the question, What does it mean to think of a harbinger as a gift? Lash and Patterson ask: what does it mean to speak "from" a place, rather than "at" it? If a biennial or triennial is traditionally considered in relation to its "host" city (a term with parasitic implications), what does it mean to "hold" a city, a gesture that suggests care and reverence?