March 2008 Archives
On the way to dinner I found a trampoline. I decided to have fun with it on the short walk. I then left it outside the restaurant hoping someone else would take it away and play with it.
I have a show in San Francisco right now. Everyday I send emails to the gallery that get printed and put up. And everyday I mail in photographs, that show up a few days later through the postal mail. The show ends tomorrow. This is my second to last email:
I
sent you the beginning of dusk. Today I will send you the middle of
dusk. And tomorrow, the last day of this exhibition, I will send you
the end of dusk.
Do you remember when I started this with dawn? I will end it with dusk, prolonged over three days.
Do you know what balloon mail is? It is mail sent by unguided balloons, usually sent under politically unstable situations, where one might not have access to the outside world.
I think that tomorrow I will send you the end of dusk when the sun goes down where you are by balloon.
At 7:31pm tomorrow the sun will set. At 10:31pm in New York I will release a balloon into the sky with the last photo marking the end of this exhibition.
I wonder if it will get to you?
- d
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Do you remember when I started this with dawn? I will end it with dusk, prolonged over three days.
Do you know what balloon mail is? It is mail sent by unguided balloons, usually sent under politically unstable situations, where one might not have access to the outside world.
I think that tomorrow I will send you the end of dusk when the sun goes down where you are by balloon.
At 7:31pm tomorrow the sun will set. At 10:31pm in New York I will release a balloon into the sky with the last photo marking the end of this exhibition.
I wonder if it will get to you?
- d
I just wrote this and printed it out and put it in an envelope and sent it to my show in San Francisco. It will get taped in the window and people walking by the window in the street will hopefully do it. Or, maybe you will print it out and put it somewhere and someone walking by will see it and do it. I am attempting to initiate a small moment of interruption.
I will look up random fax numbers on the internet for places really far away from me and then fax this to them using free online faxing.
I took a train to the Staten Island Ferry. I took the Staten Island Ferry to Staten Island. I got on the train. I got off at the last stop. I walked to the water.
THE LAB 101 SPACE Presents;
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PRESS RELEASE
The LAB 101 Space is pleased to present Here Is Where You'll Find Me, an exhibit of small photographs by Ashley Tibbits and David Horvitz. Here Is Where You'll Find Me opens March 22, 2008, at The LAB 101 Space (8539 Washington Blvd in Culver City) and remains on view through April 23, 2008. Opens March 22 from 12pm – 10pm.
The images of Ashley Tibbits and David Horvitz extend well beyond the limitations of their modest sizes. As photographers, both artists chose small scale, opting for images that are intimate and personally sacred, which beg for closer inspection and thus require further interaction with their viewer. Despite their different agendas, both Tibbits and Horvitz create work that engages with issues of memory and representation. Using Polaroid photography as their means of expression, the artists relay a sense of nostalgia and offbeat romanticism.
Tibbits digitally manipulates her "faceless portraits" to create character studies of women, both real and fictional, where only the subject's legs (in a variety of humorous and compromising situations) are available to hint at buried narrative. Concerned with elements of femininity yet fully aware of the backlash of such a label, her resulting photographs are as girlish as they are naughty, seductive as they are exploitative.
The photographs of David Horvitz are a physical manifestation of complex, imaginative projects. Much of his work documents his own actions and "small gestures." For example, Horvitz enables interested parties to receive an image of the sky for every day in 2008 through his website, davidhorvitz.com. Horvitz coaxes action from the viewer, inviting participation with his work. A photo, in which he is shown kissing a Moon Tree, is accompanied by a list of the locations of all other Moon Trees to encourage viewers to replicate his activity. Horvitz' work feels private and conveys a sense of complicity with each person who experiences it. Like anonymous love letters or messages in a bottle, the photographs offer the opportunity to share in a beautiful moment with anyone willing to play.
'Here Is Where You'll Find Me'
Small Photographs by
Ashley Tibbits and David Horvitz
March 22 - April 23, 2008
Opens: Saturday March 22, 12pm - 10pm
New Location: 8539 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
T. 310 945 5974 http://www.thelab101.com
images: Ashley Tibbits / David Horvits
The LAB 101 Space is pleased to present Here Is Where You'll Find Me, an exhibit of small photographs by Ashley Tibbits and David Horvitz. Here Is Where You'll Find Me opens March 22, 2008, at The LAB 101 Space (8539 Washington Blvd in Culver City) and remains on view through April 23, 2008. Opens March 22 from 12pm – 10pm.
The images of Ashley Tibbits and David Horvitz extend well beyond the limitations of their modest sizes. As photographers, both artists chose small scale, opting for images that are intimate and personally sacred, which beg for closer inspection and thus require further interaction with their viewer. Despite their different agendas, both Tibbits and Horvitz create work that engages with issues of memory and representation. Using Polaroid photography as their means of expression, the artists relay a sense of nostalgia and offbeat romanticism.
Tibbits digitally manipulates her "faceless portraits" to create character studies of women, both real and fictional, where only the subject's legs (in a variety of humorous and compromising situations) are available to hint at buried narrative. Concerned with elements of femininity yet fully aware of the backlash of such a label, her resulting photographs are as girlish as they are naughty, seductive as they are exploitative.
The photographs of David Horvitz are a physical manifestation of complex, imaginative projects. Much of his work documents his own actions and "small gestures." For example, Horvitz enables interested parties to receive an image of the sky for every day in 2008 through his website, davidhorvitz.com. Horvitz coaxes action from the viewer, inviting participation with his work. A photo, in which he is shown kissing a Moon Tree, is accompanied by a list of the locations of all other Moon Trees to encourage viewers to replicate his activity. Horvitz' work feels private and conveys a sense of complicity with each person who experiences it. Like anonymous love letters or messages in a bottle, the photographs offer the opportunity to share in a beautiful moment with anyone willing to play.
Media Contact:
Zoey Mondt, zoey@thelab101.com
Zoey Mondt, zoey@thelab101.com
please save this image to your computer and forward it in emails to your friends, and tell them to forward it to their friends. i want this idea to circulate around. even if it is not possible, i still want the idea to permeate!
I just shot a polaroid and sealed it in an envelope before it started developing. Whoever opens the envelope will see it for the first time.
I have this idea for a new work. I call it "Today and Yesterday." Two
pieces of paper: one has written on it: This is today's sky. The
other has written on it: This was yesterday's sky. Next to each
paper is a corresponding small photograph (today's sky goes with
a photograph of today's sky, yesterday's sky goes with a photograph of yesterday's sky). This work
will only be true for one day. I think that is why I like it. After
the day it becomes false. It becomes about a very specific
small moment.
I can make one of these everyday if I wanted to. But if I mailed you one, by the time you get it it will be false. If you want one of these, I have to give it to you in person. I will sell them for $20, but they have to be handed off.
I can make one of these everyday if I wanted to. But if I mailed you one, by the time you get it it will be false. If you want one of these, I have to give it to you in person. I will sell them for $20, but they have to be handed off.
Over the course of however many days, you will find me on Roosevelt Island reading Anna Karenina until I am done.
I thought I'd post today's email for today's sky:
A rainy day sky from somewhere in New Jersey.
3/7/08
Is it a Borges story where someone tries to put themselves in the exact same condition as a certain author to write an exact replica, word for word, of a certain novel by that author? My browser just crashed as I was writing this email, and as I re-write it I wonder if I will rewrite it exactly the same. But then thinking about it too much makes me force myself to re-write it the same, and not express myself honestly at a certain moment.
- david
A rainy day sky from somewhere in New Jersey.
3/7/08
Is it a Borges story where someone tries to put themselves in the exact same condition as a certain author to write an exact replica, word for word, of a certain novel by that author? My browser just crashed as I was writing this email, and as I re-write it I wonder if I will rewrite it exactly the same. But then thinking about it too much makes me force myself to re-write it the same, and not express myself honestly at a certain moment.
- david
On March 7, 2008 I kissed a moon tree in Philadelphia. I want to find all of them. I mean, I will find all of them.
Tonight I repeated a gesture from yesterday. The same thing, the same place, a different day, a different sky, different people (some the same). Another small act of infiltration.
On my web-site I am offering to think about you for $1. It's a stupid idea to ask people for money to think about them. But, since it is people I don't know, I think it's OK. It makes it a fun gesture. Today my friend in Portland had a biopsy and she asked me to think about her for a minute during that time. I told her to send me a text when she went in, and a text when she left, and I would think about her for the entire time. I don't remember when it was exactly, but at some point in the past 5 years there was an exact moment when I became fascinated with the idea about thinking about other people. Maybe because the idea of thinking about the idea of somebody who isn't there is so interesting. The idea of occupying your own mind with the idea of somebody else. It's all about ideas. The next time you think about somebody become self-conscious that you are thinking about them.
Tonight I will hand out 30 prints of today's sky with the date stamped on the back to random people at the opening of the Whitney Biennial.
This is printed on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. I will mail you a copy if you want one, but I think you can make your own version.
