Hosted by Curatorial Practice MFA at MICA

Casual attire

Curatorial Practice MFA at MICA invites you to the Grand Opening Celebration of Everything Must Go, an alternative store and platform for skill-sharing and discussion.

The Grand Opening Celebration features DJ sets by Nikilad, Hoeteps, and Logicoma; food by Red Emma’s; button-, tshirt-, and poster-making

Everything Must Go features hand-painted signage by Simon Benjamin, a reading room, and programming and workshops throughout the month by various artists and organizations.

*Grand Opening Celebration May 11, 6-9pm
*Closing Reception: May 27, 6-9pm
*Store Hours: May 7-27, 10am-5pm, Closed May 14 and 21

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Everything Must Go — an advertising slogan, a call to action.

Everything Must Go invites audiences to rethink established systems of exchange and the elements of creation, production, consumption, possession, waste, and value(s) functioning within them. Where do the things we consume come from? Who makes them?

How do we determine the value of a thing? How do we decide that it no longer has value? What do we exchange in order to obtain it? And who decides how this is done?

At Everything Must Go we’re slashing prices. Visitors are consumers are laborers are artists. Your money is no good here. Creative labor can be exchanged for anything in this store that is deemed to be of equal value. Our entire inventory is your palette. Anything altered and produced within this space becomes a work of art as well as a product. All art objects are free to be disassembled, reassembled, disregarded, or destroyed.

At Everything Must Go —
collaboration > competition
shared responsibility > control
diversity > uniformity
justice > profit
the commons > the privatized
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Everything Must Go is the first-year Practicum exhibition co-curated by the Curatorial Practice MFA Class of 2019—Jingyao (Joan) Cen, Jared Christensen, Rhonda Dallas, Maria Emilia Duno, Joshua Gamma, Tracey Jen, Minzi Li, Allie Linn, Joseph Orzal, and Jiayi Zhong—under the direction of José Ruiz, Director of the MFA in Curatorial Practice, and Gerald Ross, Director of Exhibitions at MICA. This project is made possible by The Stanley Mazaroff & Nancy Dorman Endowed Fund for Curatorial Practice—First Year Practicum.