Featuring eight local and international artists, For the Birds Who Own Nothing explores the practice and politics of storage. Whether it’s in a basement or attic, a storage unit, a box under the bed, the bag you carry every day, or the data maintained on servers under the aegis of 'the cloud', we all store things. To gather, to store, is to add to the archive of stories we all co-create. 

This exhibition is the outcome of a curatorial class; throughout the semester, the curatorial team studied the concept of storage through lenses such as inheritance, class, gender, mental health, housing precarity, the body, and the inequities of labor and resources on the global stage. The works in the exhibition were submitted through an open call and each piece represents a unique take on the notion of storage, from emotional, seemingly private experiences to the political and logistical contexts in which we all accumulate and store tangible and intangible things.. 

Rather than installing these works in a formal gallery context, the exhibition has hijacked and repurposed sites in the building that have typically been used to store things: the neglected gap between a false wall and a window used to house discarded building materials; the corner by the vending machines where random objects tend to accumulate; the rarely-used courtyard between the wood-shop and the contemporary art galleries. The install’s color scheme references the ubiquitous orange that marks U-haul vans and storage units that have become so entangled with American economies of possession and displacement.