Johansson Projects
Gallery in Oakland, California (downtown). Part of Oakland.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion | Jenny Odell | subject | In the film, Collin and Miles visit a photographer in this gallery who makes portraits of Oakland residents and asks them to stare silently at each other. |
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (2019)
Source: How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion · How to Do Nothing · Readwise highlight
It happens much earlier, in Johansson Projects, a small gallery downtown.
- Role: subject
- In the book: In the film, Collin and Miles visit a photographer in this gallery who makes portraits of Oakland residents and asks them to stare silently at each other. Odell reads the long, uncomfortable moment as ‘stretching toward’ and as Buber’s I-Thou perception.
- Why it matters: The gallery is the setting of the scene that fuses attention, perception, bias and will for her; the photographer’s gentrification-resisting portraits give the place thematic weight.