Secrets Walls Keep
Channel: Casewerks Showroom
Date: 03/10/2012

2012 - Video by Beth Frederick & Don Palmer, Baltimore, MD

This video is featured in "HOUSE SHOW," an exhibition at Case[werks] Gallery September 21 - October 24, 2012.  

Artist's Statement:

Through a series of short (1-3 minute) flip video narratives by the documentarians / interpreters and their neighbors, this piece explores and conveys the intimate nature of row houses and the people and families who share a wall. It answers questions such as: What do we learn from half-heard stories, noises in the night, glimpses through windows? What are the unwritten rules that govern when we intervene, reach out, ignore our neighbors? What do we interpret from overgrown ivy, never-opened windows, doors that never slam? What does it take for us to overcome unfamiliarity and patterns of being to develop relationships?

HOUSE SHOW is co-curated by Marianne Amoss, Marian April Glebes, Sarah McCann, and Jessica Young of D center Baltimore.  The exhibition studies and celebrates the idea of the rowhouse as storyteller examining how these familiar structures serve as narratives, recording and telling our personal stories and the stories of streets, neighborhoods, and entire cities.

This exhibition was the final event in collaboration between Urbanite Baltimore, Case[werks], and the Station North Arts & Entertainment District. The collaboration is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

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