Caesura Unit is a gallery in Easthampton Mass., founded in 2025, and as we move into our second year of programming, due to a very recent and unforeseen change in our funding, we are faced with a need to ask for help to preserve this space where meaning can continue to be cultivated, held, and shared.

Caesura Unit was born in the belief that it’s possible to live in a small community and generate a vibrant, rigorous, meticulous, open, and inspiring dialogue linking international cities to the outer reaches of smaller regions, like ours. Caesura Unit is truly independent, and in resistance to an increasingly prescribed, insistent, voluminous, and undermining culture. In this spirit Caesura Unit endeavors to thread histories, materials, thought, experiences, and meaning together. 

Our lease renews at the end of October and we now find ourselves dearly asking for your help for this to continue. We are looking to raise $15,000 by the end of November. This amount will cover a new rental deposit, insurance, a year of rent, and leave a small seed fund towards exhibitions and events that are in development to be realized in 2026.

$12,000 will be towards paying a year’s worth of rent at our current space in the Paragon building in Easthampton.

$2,000 will be towards operating funds and production costs for upcoming exhibitions.

$1,000 will be towards paying insurance.

Caesura Unit is grounded in the knowledge that every day maintenance is needed to hold the space necessary for quieter meanings to register in our community. In one short year, it has become a place where people can connect through the coalescence of artworks, sound, video, and performance, that are at once fleeting, inquisitive, disruptive, beautiful, and true.  

Since moving from Manchester (England) to Western Mass., it took me twenty years to build a framework that could support the existence of this gallery. Our mission is value driven and born out of a commitment to, and care for, where we live. Created to celebrate and develop a delicate and strong fabric, comprising correspondents, collaborators, co-conspiritors, and dear friends, between Berlin, Copenhagen, Easthampton, Greenfield, Holyoke, London, Manchester, New York, Paris, Todmorden, Tokyo, and Zurich.

Events in the gallery’s founding year have encompassed a group exhibition and a related series of events, with artist talks, two commissioned essays, a commissioned poem and premiere reading event, two video artwork screenings, two listening events premiering two artist sound works, two improvised sound and music performances, the commission and premiere performances of three short-form plays with large format set installations and lighting design, with a zine-catalogue/programme published for each gallery event, while welcoming an array of international artists to the small historic mill town of Easthampton.

We ask that you consider the donation options and what you may be able to manage, in support of our continuing programming. Donations of $25 and up, come with perks, including publications, editions, and original artwork.

WOMEN WORKING
Curated by Alice Centamore

An archival-based exhibition tracing representations of labor, working bodies, and working-class oppression as captured through the lens of women workers. Historical poem and picture book Women Working (1980) will be presented alongside additional photographs and texts depicting women-identifying individuals engaged in labor in collective settings. A facsimile of Women Working accompanied by a new curatorial essay will be published.

Curated by Arthur Fournier

An exhibition of printed ephemera from the collections of rare bookseller Arthur Fournier and Donald Nicholson-Smith (a member of the English section of the Situationist International) tracing the entanglements and resonances of Surrealism, S.I., Black Mask, King Mob, and early punk youth culture. A zine-catalogue accompanied by a new curatorial essay will be published.

Residency, installation, and series of events across sound, movement, and sculpture. 

TELEPHONE PLAYS
Audio and artwork gallery edition publication.

Curator/Director
Rick Myers

Alice Centamore

Peter Gizzi

James Hoff

Josh Guilford

2025 Artists/Collaborators

Alice Centamore, Sarah Charlesworth, Joanie Cappetta, Arthur Fournier, Peter Gizzi, Josh Guilford, Christian Hawkins, Christoph Heemann, Ben Hersey, Matthew Higgs, James Hoff, Xylor Jane, Wednesday Knudsen, Matt Krefting, Hunter Larson, Christian Marclay, Allie McKean, Rick Myers, Bill Nace, Guy Pettit, Luther Price, Lena Rubin, Gerhard Rühm, Haein Song, Demdike Stare, Jennifer Valdies, Jan Voss, Sergej Vutuc, Sam Winston, C. Spencer Yeh, David Watson, Steven Zultanski

Level 1 - $25 or more 

Selected zine publication

+ Digital Audio Access of twoTelephone Plays Performance Recordings

Level 2 - $50 or more 

Zines/Publication Package

Complete set containing four elaborate zine publications tracing the first year of events

+ Digital Audio Access of twoTelephone Plays Performance Recordings

Level 3 - $100 or more 

Special Edition Zines/Publication Package

Complete set of publications as above.

+ Digital Audio Access of twoTelephone Plays Performance Recordings

+ Original Text Drawing, unique work, pencil on paper with xerographic printing, 8.5 x 11 inches, by Rick Myers

Level 4 - $500 or more 

Deluxe Edition Zines/Publication Package

Complete set of publications as above.

+ Digital Audio Access of twoTelephone Plays Performance Recordings

+ Digital Audio Access ofTelephone Plays Sound Piece

+ Telephone Plays Set Design Painting Prototype, blue and red acrylic on paper with xerographic printing, 30 x 42 inches, folded.

Level 5 - $1800 or more

Deluxe Edition Zines/Publication Package

Complete set of publications as above.

+ Digital Audio Access of two Telephone Plays Performance Recordings

+ Digital Audio Access ofTelephone Plays Sound Piece

+ Telephone Plays Set Design Painting, unique artwork that formed part of the event, acrylic on paper with xerographic printing, three panels each 30 x 42 inches (image below.)

Deluxe Edition Zines/Publication Package

Complete set of publications as above.

+ Digital Audio Access of twoTelephone Plays Performance Recordings

+ Digital Audio Access ofTelephone Plays Sound Piece

+ Telephone Plays Set Design Painting, unique artwork that formed part of the event, acrylic on paper with xerographic printing, four panels each 30 x 42 inches (image below.)