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EXHIBITION OPENING: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 2011. 7-11PM
LOUISA DAWSON
JAMIL YAMANI
13 OCTOBER - 20 OCTOBER, 2011. 12-5PM
26-15 JACKSON AVE
LONG ISLAND CITY
NYC
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Please join us for the exhibition of new work by Jamil Yamani and Louisa Dawson.
These
new works are about cultural identity and urban displacement. Dawson
and Yamani connect elements of the everyday, which transform structures,
objects and environments. The works are installed in an empty car
mechanic workshop in Long Island City. This New York suburb is itself in
transition from an industrial area to residential condominiums and
gentrification. The works, exhibited in this repurposed space both
reflect the surrounding changes and shift in perceptions of space and
culture.
Yamani’s
work ‘Made in America’ is an embedded video sculpture that aims to
encourage debate on what drives narratives of identity. The sculpture
takes iconic Islamic designs and significant religious structures and
integrates them with a classic American object, namely a Chevelle 1969
Malibu. It is an example of US car-making in a specific, possibly more
mono-narrative era. The roof of the vehicle will have the iconic Islamic
dome and four minarets built upon it, synthesizing the sculpture into a
‘mobile Mosque’. The work undermines notions of the ‘other’ through the
use of familiar objects. The windows of the vehicle will serve as
projection surfaces where each window will be individually mapped with
its own discreet footage.
Dawson’s work ‘New Arrivals’ is a 1m high diving board, but it has a boulder that bends the board to the floor. In
this new work she creates static tension between the ungraceful boulder
at the tip of the board with the sophisticated functions of the diving
board that typically displays gymnastics and aerobatic performance into
water. The diving board and the rock appear to be caught in the moment
before it launches the boulder into the space. In Dawson’s
sculptures, she incorporates evidence of changes in urban environments,
the politics of public space, and the social inequalities of travel and
mobility. She modifies industrial and domestic objects, such as rubbish
skips, suitcases, ladders and tables, to juxtapose their form and function.
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ISCP was pleased to host the 2nd Annual Residency
Mixer this week! Residents and staff members from the following programs joined
us for this lively event: Abrons Arts Center, Apex Art, Art In General, Art and
Law Residency, Artist Pension Trust, Eyebeam, Flux Factory, Harvestworks,
Laundromat Project, LMCC, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Nars Foundation,
Recess Activities, Residency Unlimited, Smack Mellon, Studio Museum Harlem, The
Field, Triangle Arts Association, Union Docs. This year’s mixer was made
especially memorable by Recess Activities residents, fucknails: Cyrus Saint
Amand Poliakoff, Destiny Pierce, David Riley, Kelsey Hall, Grant Worth, who
provided us with their evening long performance. Much gratitude goes to
Recess Executive Director Allison Weisberg for providing support and for
running a program dedicated to supporting artists’ work.
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SOCIALISM
Vasil Artamonov & Alexey Klyuykov
Winners of the 2010 Chalupecky Award
September 22, 2011 - November 2, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 22, 6:30-8:30pm
The
show Socialism by Vasil Artamanov and Alexey Klyukov, is a
site-specific project created specifically for the Gallery of the Czech
Center New York reflecting their fresh, first time experiences visiting
New York. The Artist collaborators Vasil Artamanov and Alexey Klyukov
were both born in Russia and are now living and working in Prague, Czech
Republic. They are the 2010 Chalupecky Award recepients. The duo have
worked collaboratively since 2006. Their practice includes a wide range
of media such as interventions in public spaces, video performance and
installations and traditional paintings that often reflect art history;
mainly Russian avant-garde or cubism. In their works history is
reintroduced with a hint of irony, in other projects they deal with
cultural and socio-political issues relating to the process of the
development of a democratic system.
For more information, please click here.
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Impressions from a studio visit with ISCP alum Magnus Thierfelder by Chennie Huang. Magnus was in residence at ISCP from October 2010-November 2011.
Subtle Wittiness
Intrigued by the clever play of words in his titles like As strong as its weakness, Resistance, Lost control, and Explorer, I had the immense pleasure of making my acquaintance with this brilliantly interesting artist from Malmö, Magnus Thierfelder
who has been doing a residency at ISCP in Brooklyn. The most
interesting aspect of his work was the combination of sheer playfulness
mixed with ironic seriousness. Magnus, as described by himself tend to
focus on the details of quotidian objects and occurrences as means to
examine the physical and psychological relationship we have with our
surroundings. Through his re-appropriations and interpretations, Magnus
showed me how these ordinary things could make certain references to
the way we view and live our lives.
Please click here for more.
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The Many Worlds Interpretation
Solo exhibition by Peter Gregorio
ArtGate Gallery
October 6th to November 15th
Opening reception Oct 6th from 6-8pm
The Many Worlds Interpretation will feature largescale paintings and video installations exploring the artist’s interpretations of “The Singularity." As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, we are left to wonder if there will come a time when computer-based intelligence will surpass our own intellectual capabilities. If human intelligence becomes inferior to arti cial intelligence, what will it mean for our self-existence? Gregorio explores the scienti c concept of “The Singularity,” an event horizon emanating from the convergence of biological and arti cial intellectual acumen, resulting in a radically altered society. “The Singularity” will bring about great uncertainty and a new era beyond our realm of comprehension. Some view it as a threat to mankind and believe it should be avoided at all costs. Gregorio takes advantage of the uncertainty, using it as an opportunity to introduce his own paradigms and options for approaching an unknown world. By transforming conceptual ideas of information theory and theoretical cosmology into tangible works of art, Gregorio works compresses the depths of our 3-dimensional world, blurring the vantage point of interpretation to presents us with a vision that allows us to re ect on the forthcoming changes that will inevitably come.
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Thanks to all who attended the opening reception last
night! If you couldn’t make it, there’s
still time. The exhibition will be
up through October 8th.
And please be sure to join us on October 4th for a talk with
Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, Mostyn, Wales.
Borrowed Knowledge is a show in two parts: The Blind Image and The
Public Library of Borrowed Knowledge. The show takes as its
starting point an investigation into the construction of visual history and its
relation to images and history’s claim to truth through two multifaceted works.
The Blind Image brings
together the film Amnesialand (2010),
the artist’s most recent film Blind Image, a series
of photos and display of books. The Public
Library of Borrowed Knowledge will attempt to open up a participatory
dialogue relating to the idea of knowledge production and cultural translation,
initiating a collective working process for subsequent presentations. For more
information please click here.
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CLAUDIA KAPP
In Collaboration with BENJAMIN BLANKE and ANNA JANDT
YOU YOU
September 17 - November 13, 2011
Opening on September 16, 7 pm
Kunstverein Braunschweig
Opening September 16th, Kunstverein Braunschweig is presenting the work of ISCP alum Claudia Kapp, 2010 recipient of a grant from Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture.
The glowing flourescent letters on the roof of
the Remise beckon the viewer, seem to address him or her directly: YOU
YOU. Yet the façade's windows and doors have been sealed with wooden
boards, and the familiar entrance into the interior is blocked. An image
is created that is both inviting as well as hermetic. One eventually
accesses the building by way of the garden. Spaces that are otherwise
not accessible are opened, and the Remise becomes a poetically
enraptured and complex, overall work of art.
For more information click here.
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Jeremy Shaw: Best Minds
September 10-October 10, 2011
MoMA PS1
Jeremy Shaw's
(Canadian, born 1977) work explores altered states and the cultural and
scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map, transcendental
experience.
Adopting strategies from the realms of conceptual art, documentary
film, music
video, and scientific research, Shaw's work has addressed topics
ranging from psychedelic
drug use and brain imaging, to teenage violence and time travel.
Presented at
MoMA PS1 in a new, expanded configuration, Best
Minds Part One (Expanded)'s three-channel video installation
features slowed-down footage of
the crowd at a straight edge hardcore concert in Vancouver,
Canada. A subset of hardcore punk, with origins
in the early 1980s, the DIY
straight edge
movement levels a critique against traditional hardcore, and is
defined by a
puritanical rejection of the nihilistic tendencies commonly associated with
punk, namely alcohol consumption, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity.
For more information click here.
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Patricia Dauder, Negative Wave 2010. Courtesy of the artist and ProjecteSD, Barcelona.
Test Transmission: September 2-October 8, 2011
Artspace, New Zealand
Curated by Caterina Riva, Test Transmission is a group show at Artspace in New Zealand feauturing works by General Idea, ISCP alum Patricia Dauder, and Tobias Kaspar. Dauder met Riva during her residency at ISCP as part of the Visiting Critic program. For more information about on this exhibition, click here.
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