February
1 – March 7
Jill Katz
Across the Roof
of the World: Beijing to Kathmandu
 For
two weeks in May 2007, photographer Jill Katz joined a group
of twelve international travelers whom she had never met and
together they made their way overland across Friendship Highway
via the heart of northern China, then south through the vast
high altitude Tibetan plateau to Kathmandu. After traveling
to Asia for the first time two years prior through Thailand,
Cambodia and Vietnam, she was immediately captivated by this
continent.
Taking cues from the
multi-colored flag strewn landscapes, these images, documentary
in nature, begin in Beijing, follow two days on the Chongqing–Tibet
railway to Lhasa, the monastic center that is Tibet’s capital,
passing through China’s most historic cities, across the bluest
lakes set below incredible mountainous ranges. At a time of
rapid change throughout the world, particularly in Asia, travel
to these places forces us to reassess the responsibilities we
have as individuals to each other and the planet as a whole.
February
1 – March 28
InLiquid.com
Video Installation
dj YardSale aka
Nick Cassway
the third idea
dj YardSale mixes a time-shifting
video and audio compilation appropriated from public domain
sources of the early 20th century. An implied narrative, or
"the third idea," is developed through the combination of moving
pictures and sound. dj YardSale, aka Nick Cassway, is a Philadelphia-based
artist and curator.
March
17 – March 23
Chere Krakovsky
The Neighbors
Next Door
 Chere
Krakovsky is a New York based performance artist whose work
takes place in unusual settings. She returns to Philadelphia
creating a kitchen space at International House for seven days
in which everyone is invited to visit. Each night, a guests
are invited to exchange information, experience, and ideas.
Sitting in Krakovsky’s kitchen, visitors can have a cup of coffee
in the tradition of the neighbor next door with the awareness
that “next door” spans across the world as a new global neighborhood
and cultural concept, addressing issues of home, vulnerability,
adaptability and endurance, as well as how we embrace strangers.
This is a performative work without a traditional stage or set
time for viewing.
Joining Chere are: Sue Spaid, Curator
Abington Art Center; Christie Hallis + 4, Philadelphia Community;
Ben Neill, Composer + Amy Lipton, Eco Curator and Director of
the Omi Sculpture Park; MaryAnn Settembrino, Solutions Provider
for Unsolvable Health Problems; Betsy Hill, Musician, NYC Community
+ International House Residents
Chere Krakovsky received
her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. She is currently
in the MFA program at Goddard College, VT and resides in New
York City. and performs in various non-traditional settings.
March
28 – April 25
David and Lisa
U'Prichard
Turkey: Modern,
Secular, Ancient & Sacred
 David
and Lisa U'Prichard visited Central and Eastern Turkey in May
2007, taking dramatic and personal photographs of the people,
architecture and geography which inhabit the ancient and modern
country of Turkey. Full of stunning landscapes, Turkey is situated
in a politically dynamic corner of the world, a country where
Europe turns into Asia – a n ancient empire within a modern
republic and the only country in Europe with a majority Muslim
population. The U'Prichard’s capture the beauty as well as the
harshness of a land where the ancient and the modern collide
as they do almost nowhere else in the world.
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