Archive

  • Matei Bejenaru
    Matei Bejenaru
    Battling Inertia
    Video
    2010
  • Chen Chieh-jen
    Chen Chieh-jen
    Factory
    2003
    Super 16mm transferred to DVD, color, silent, single-channel, continuous loop
    31:09 minutes
  • Factory of Found Clothes
    Factory of Found Clothes
    Scarlet Sails
    Video
    2005
    7 minutes
  • Cao Fei
    Cao Fei
    My Future is Not a Dream 04
    2006
    Digital c-print mounted
    47 1/4 x 59 inches
  • Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
    Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
    It Can't Last (Mihrab)
    2010
    Found brick
  • Mladen Stilinović
    Mladen Stilinović
    Artist at work
    1978
    Photographs
  • Stephanie Syjuco
    Stephanie Syjuco
    The Counterfeit Crochet Project (Critique of a Political Economy)
    Installation with workshop and display area
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2007

FACTORY MAKERS

November 05, 2010 - November 08, 2010

 

OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, November 5th, 7-9 pm

participating artists

Matei Bejenaru (Romania), Factory of Found Clothes (Russia), Cao Fei (China),
Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan), Jean-Marc Superville Sovak (USA), Stephanie Syjuco (USA) and Mladen Stilinović (Croatia)

curated by Kari Conte

Opening alongside Open Studios, Factory Makers initiates a four-part exhibition over the next year that takes ISCP’s site of production – a historic printing factory – as the starting point to reflect on the changing nature and idea of work in society and how we define labor today. This exhibition presents seven international artists who address the impact of the world’s rapidly changing economies on new social and cultural realities. Through various approaches, the included works consider the effect of globalization, new modes of 'outsourced' production and the blurring boundaries of material and immaterial labor. A 1978 work by Mladen Stilinović begins the exhibition and asserts non-productivity as critical to the creation of art.