Counterpublic is both a public platform and a provocation. The choice to form a triennial civic exhibition was one we consciously undertook in order to reimagine how an arts institution could be formed explicitly to advance social and generational change. In many ways, a triennial is an unlikely position from which to pose a new model for an altered art world.
Bright, geometric and colorful — 40 low, wooden platforms adorned with ribbons at their corners dot a field of grass. They are an unexpected sight next to Interstate 55.