The Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables | Heather Hart
Heather Hart, Brooklyn, NY
The Porch Project, Black Lunch Tables, South Elm Projects, 2015.
The Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables is an interactive sculpture designed for intimate conversations and community events for Elsewhere’s South Elm Projects. It takes the lunchroom phenomenon of self-segregation as its starting point, evoking the pivotal Greensboro sit-ins at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960. While its form is based on principles of sacred geometry and Dunbar’s Number, a theory of the perfect threshold of a functional conversation. These tables for five might also serve as an activated memorial for the Greensboro Five: Sandi Smith, Dr. James Waller, Bill Sampson, Cesar Cauce, Dr. Michael Nathan. This Porch Project reserves a place for conversation among neighbors, and a space to consider and challenge the evolving socio-political landscape at this intersection of Greensboro’s community.
The site is on the corner of Bragg Street and Arlington Street, 2 blocks from Elsewhere’s museum in downtown Greensboro, NC. Contact museum@goelsewhere.org for more information and to program.
Heather Hart is based in Brooklyn. For South Elm Projects, Hart created the Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables. She was an artist-in-residence at LMCC, Whitney ISP, shown at The Drawing Center, Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and reviewed in Art in America, NY Times, and Seattle Times. Hart received grants from Creative Capital Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Jerome Foundation and her MFA from Rutgers.