PS1 exhibition: Altered, Stitched, and Gathered
Just got ahold of the press release for the exhibition I'm in at PS1 in NY...Come out and see it if you're in town! Oh, and no, my work has nothing to do with sewing or stitching. It's a three-channel video work that is a furthering of an earlier project "Body Double (Platoon)" from 2005. The new one adds two other Vietnam War movies that were actually shot in the Philippines--Hamburger Hill and Apocalypse Now--and turns them into silently moving frames of ambient landscape images. The final work is shown on three 26" flat-screen LCD monitors mounted to the wall. It took me way longer than I thought to finish the work, but it's DONE and I shipped out the DVDs yesterday :) So happy, yes I am!
EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
"ALTERED, STITCHED AND GATHERED"
December 14, 2006 - January 22, 2007
Opening reception Thursday, December 14, 2006
(Long Island City, NY – October 27, 2006) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present Altered, Stitched and Gathered, an exhibition that brings together artists exploring or transforming familiar objects and social practices through a deliberate methodology. The exhibition, curated and produced entirely by the museum’s assistant staff, is on view in the Third Floor Main Galleries from December 14, 2006 through January 22, 2007.
Each artist utilizes a step-by-step production process. Be it implied, seemingly spontaneous, or unnervingly rigorous – each leads to outcomes that range from the humorous to the politically charged. Though their methods vary, they stem from similar sensibilities – the serial formalism of Conceptual art and the calculated yet DIY nature of 1960s Fluxus practices.
Commenting on the intended uses of the original and how it was produced, the works in the exhibition question accepted notions of practicality and impracticality, recollection and fabrication. Early examples exploring these themes, such as Yoko Ono’s poetic instructional work and Ben Vautier’s inventive musical composition, are presented with more recent work. Included are Serkan Özkaya’s hand-rendered newspaper covers; corporate logos arranged in Moorish patterns by Gunilla Klingberg; Cornelia Parker’s steamrolled and suspended silverware; and Shinique Smith’s site-specific installation of clothing and fabric. Artists also include Ai Weiwei, Ann Böttcher, Vija Celmins, Jacob Dahlgren, Tom Friedman, Sharon Hayes, Subodh Gupta, Emily Jacir, Guillermo Kuitca, Dinh Q. Le, Li Songsong, Rä di Martino, Ola Pehrson, Ted Riederer, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Paul Salveson, Stephanie Syjuco, Jacques Villegle, and David Wojnarowicz.
“We have temporarily given the reins of power to the next generation,” says P.S.1 founding Director Alanna Heiss. “P.S.1 has a long history of offering opportunities to young and emerging artists. With Altered, Stitched and Gathered, this tradition is extended to young talent within the institution with each junior staff member taking on the role of his or her senior counterpart, developing every aspect of the show.”
Altered, Stitched and Gathered is organized by Christopher Y. Lew, Erica Papernik, and Elna Svenle with Jelena Kristic as project director.
PS1 website here
3 Comments:
Wow, it's so amazing that you're going to be showing at PS1! I have never had the opportunity to visit this gallery, but remember learning about it in my 2nd year at UCR because of the artist Santiago Sierra (which involved a live man remunerated for living in the gallery); and subsequently thinking "this gallery seems incredibly open and daring to put on shows by this artist"...
and it's incredible, as you said in an earlier post, that there is a resurgence in these often forgotten and at times even "taboo" areas in art. And by taboo, I am referring to the fact that throughout most of my education at UCR, I was told that creating work about anything socially relevant was "dead," and that it had "all been done"...
and this was said by artists that are quite relevant and prolific in their respective artistic endeavors.
which of course gets me so excited to see shows like the one in LA (which i will hopefully be attending soon!), and the show at CCA, as well as the upcoming show at the Yerba Buena Arts Center on Mexican Sign Art.
I actually just went to an amazing show at the California Museum of Photography titled "Ruby Satellite;" in Riverside. I definitely recommend you check out the website! www.cmp.ucr.edu
it's an incredibly charged show, which a lot of work dealing with power, social corruption, change, etc.
unfortunately, many of the exhibitions that happen in Riverside go unnoticed; but at the same time, it allows these small venues to really be experimental and daring when it comes to the type of shows they curate and what they show...
Do you think you'll be able to meet Yoko Ono?!
this is fab, stephanie! congrats!
Went to see this today. Thanks for the heads up. Congratulations!
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