Senior Chase Wade Co-produces Exhibit at MOCAD

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Teen Council represents a select group of artistic teens interested in promoting art events, youth engagement and teen advocacy in the Metro Detroit area. I was one of two high school students (the other student is named Pippin Lapish) from the Teen Council who helped to co-create the public light, poetry, and sound exhibition called All Monsters with Professor Jan Tichy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

This exhibition is currently open to the public and seeks to explore trauma as a concept. We are also interested in the ways people can confront trauma by revisiting our past. We collaborated from this past summer up-until two weeks ago to create copper pipe installations, original poems and then perform them. Recordings of us reciting the poems are audibly projected in these pipes. My original poem is called Beyond Grief from a Homestead. We also worked with InsideOut literary arts to develop these poems and get professional feedback. In addition to the project, we developed workshops based on archaeological practices. We are partnering with the Chair of the Wayne State University Department of Archaeology to dig and excavate the land beneath the exhibition in relation to the theme of unearthing trauma.