{"id":38273,"date":"2017-03-14T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=38273"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:05:44","slug":"talking-vs-speaking-student-installations-at-usu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/talking-vs-speaking-student-installations-at-usu\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking vs. Speaking: Student Installations at USU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_8298.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36654\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_8298-620x465.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSpring is coming (if not already here), which means you can expect to find exhibitions of student works in venues across the state. In Cache Valley a group of students at Utah State University has been getting the jump on everyone else.\u00a0Under the direction of sculpture Professor Ryoichi Suzuki, Jessyka Barton, Jenna Coffin, Richard Bland and Jordan Snow have been working together to create installations in the campus gallery spaces.For a project in February, the group aimed to address \u201cthe issues that pervade cultural fears and discontents that are becoming more polarized within our neighborhoods every year.\u201d The walls of the university\u2019s Project Gallery were painted blue and red and the room was divided by a shiny chain-link fence (provided by Custom Fence Co. in Logan) that was topped with barbed wire. Visitors were invited to write their thoughts in chalk on the walls. \u201cThe idea is not simply sharing opinions, but, rather, observing the barrier we place between ourselves,\u201d says Snow, one of the participating artists.The same students have created a second installation, which will debut Thursday in the university\u2019s Ready Made Gallery. Four (mostly) spherical objects, formed by a thousand mouths, hang from the gallery\u2019s ceiling, while a sound piece projects a cut-up of nonsense speaking, reflecting the overall theme of the project, \u201cwe talk but don\u2019t necessarily speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reception for this current installation will be Thursday, March 16th, 5-7 p.m. at the Ready Made Gallery, USU UR Building, 1200 E 700 N, Logan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is coming (if not already here), which means you can expect to find exhibitions of student works in venues across the state. In Cache Valley a group of students at Utah State University has been getting the jump on everyone else.\u00a0Under the direction of sculpture Professor Ryoichi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[3801,3800,3721,3802,2995],"class_list":["post-38273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts","tag-jenna-coffin","tag-jessyka-barton","tag-jordan-snow","tag-richard-bland","tag-ryoichi-suzuki"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8298-620x465.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 15:57:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98368,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273\/revisions\/98368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}