March 2010 Archives

New Project Announced Today:


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DRUGSTORE BEETLE (Sitodrepa Paniceum), organized by David Horvitz, features:

Marley Freeman 
Paul Branca 
Mary Walling Blackburn 
John Sisley
Miranda Lichtenstein 
Annegret Kellner 
Emilie Halpern  
Barbara Ess 
Daniel Gustav Cramer 
Alex Klein 
Sarah Rara Anderson 
Graham Parker 
Suzie Silver 
Marijke Appelman 
Jon Pestoni 
Josh Kit Clayton 
Amy Lam
Luke Fischbeck 
Michael G. Bauer 
Avalon Kalin 
John Pena 
Santos Vasquez 
Zach Houston 
Michelle Blade 
Graham Anderson 
Steve Kado
Ken Ehrlich

An edition of 30 exhibitions were made, containing small works by the 27 artists. They were all bound in a four-flap, an archival enclosure used in libraries for the purpose of shelving loose prints. An ISBN was purchased for the exhibition. Meta-data was also inputted into WorldCat, the cataloging database librarians use to input and retrieve a publication’s information. With the exhibition’s meta-data existing in two digital databases, all thirty of them were sent to libraries around the world through the transaction of a book-donation (they were all made to exist, initially, as gifts, and only as gifts). The idea was that, since they were already legitimately placed in the two widely used digital systems, that they would slip with ease into the respective library’s collection. If accepted, they become subject to the rules and regulations of the library. Some may circulate, some may be held in special collections that are only accessible by appointment (where they can be handled with white gloves and looked at in the surrounding silence of the library). Some libraries may allow them to go on loan, making them an exhibition-ready-to-be-checked-out-and-displayed. Or, in the cases where they may be refused admittance, they may disappear, like the used-book with no place to go that one finds in the discarded-pile at a library sale.

I'm in this new show:

http://animmaterialsurveyofourpeers.tumblr.com/

In "Chicago."

An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers presents installation images of an exhibit that never physically took place. Using digital compositing techniques, we have re-imagined the process of browsing through a Google Reader by adding art to images of the Sullivan Galleries’ empty walls. This presentational gesture of conflating scrolling with strolling is meant to question the ongoing tendency to believe material interaction with art is mandatory despite living in an age of utter dependency on the digital image as an informational source. Like the Argentinean Communication Media artists before us, we have cut out the middle-man (objects) and inserted the image as our final product, aware that the documentary media art receives plays the most pivotal role in defining its public discourse anyway. To expedite this process of media exposure, An Immaterial Survey is simultaneously being debuted online in addition to its projection in Chicago, confusing the boundaries of when and where the exhibit took place.

It is an intentional choice to offer no objects and no work of our own as our final display at SAIC. This is in part a tribute to the decentralized network of artists who comprise An Immaterial Survey. To present art online is an act of selflessness; the creator forfeits stringent control over their work’s meaning in favor of allowing the most generous opportunity for global viewership possible. For this we are thankful and indebted to the names that comprise our list of participants. We choose not to present sellable goods because we are fully aware of the irony of the BFA Exhibit itself; four years of a Feminist-Marxist education culminating in a grand celebration of luxury goods and the willful commodification of artist identity brands (best exemplified by the entire shelving units dedicated to freshly printed business cards). It is our intent to use this opportunity not for our own market assimilation, but for the praise of others and the criticism of art’s hierarchy of material value still present in our digital age.

JOGGING
Aaron Graham
Abigail McGuane
AIDS-3D
Andreas Banderas
Arielle Gavin
Anna Mack
Ben Schumacher
Brad Tinmouth
Brenna Murphy
Brian Khek
Kevin Caldwell
Chris Collins
Chris Coy
Daniel Everett
David Horvitz
Derek Frech
Elina Minn
Esteban Schimpf
Hanna Terese Nilsson
Hermonie Only
Iain Ball
Ilia Ovechkin
Israel Lund
Ivan Gaytan
Jamie Felton
Jason Lazarus
Jeff O’Brien
Jennilee Marigomen
Jon Rafman
Jordan Rhoat
Kari Altmann
Katy Heinlein
Lili Huston-Herterich
Manny Mireles
Martijn Hendriks
Martin Kohout
Maryanne Casasanta
Matthew Green
Micah Schippa
Mitch Thar
Natalie Rognsoy
Nick DeMarco
Parker Ito
Rachael Milton
Ryan Barone
Samara Golden
Timur Si-Qin
Travess Smalley
Zach Shipko

For sets of the 24 photo-prints for Kiosk:

(Firstly, I recommend that you reproduce the exhibition prints via a photo kiosk near you with the downloadable files)

However, if you would like a set of prints made from the Rossmann photo kiosk nearest to Golden Parachutes (where the prints hung in the gallery were made), they are available here. The gallery will make the prints at the kiosk and mail them to you.

 

Shipping Location

inside EUROPE €20.00 outside EUROPE €25.00

(NOTE: Any profits made from these purchases will be donated to the Amache Preservation Society, a high school-run organization preserving the site of the Amache Camp for Japanese Americans, where my grandmother was interned during the Second World War. Ordinarily, the profits would be split equally between the eight artists, myself, and the gallery. This decision was made because we wanted to sell the prints at approximate production and shipping cost, and any profit would not be significant enough to split between ten people. )

I organized an exhibition/project at Golden Parachutes in Berlin.

It features: Haris Epaminonda, Marius Engh, Vlatka Horvat, Charlotte Moth, Kristina Lee Podesva, Lisa Tan, Oraib Toukan, and Lucy Raven.

Direct download link to the:

- Images (at printable size)
- Reader

Press release:

In Farsi, کوشک (pronounced kušk), refers to an object that protects or is a shade maker. The kiosk has a history in the Middle East that spans over seven centuries. A word that was originally used to designate a place in the shade, or in the case of the Turkish kösk, a summer residence for the wealthy, has changed over time to encompass not only shaded vendors and newspaper stands, but also parking-lot ticket dispensers and photo printing machines.

Golden Parachutes is pleased to present Kiosk, a project organized by the American artist David Horvitz, and featuring Haris Epaminonda, Oraib Toukan, Marius Engh, Vlatka Horvat, Kristina Lee Podesva, Charlotte Moth, Lisa Tan, and Lucy Raven.

As a physical space, the non-electronic kiosk functions as a quasi-outpost in both urban and non-urban spaces. Both inside and outside at once (kiosks are usually makeshift structures and seldom proper buildings), the kiosk offers shade to the vendor, as well as possibilities for sustenance and communication for the passerby. While a ticket machine is not a shade maker, a photo kiosk returns to the etymological origins. Using a camera, a literal box of darkness (coming from camera obscura, darkened chamber), as a way of producing images, the photo-kiosk becomes a reproducer of images-literally from the shadows.

Twenty-four 13 x 18 cm prints will be exhibited at Golden Parachutes. These photographs, printed from a photo-kiosk at the German drugstore, Rossmann, will be available for open reproduction at the cost of printing (unless shoplifted by the visitor). Upon request, visitors from the gallery will receive the twenty-four image files, and can walk to the nearest Rossmann 0,8 km away to reproduce the exhibition. The image files will also be available to download from Golden Parachutes' website for those not in Berlin. The photographs, dispersed from Golden Parachutes, will become a kind of "traveling show" through diffusive reproduction.

Horvitz has assembled a group of international artists whose practices explore various ideas of travel. Lisa Tan's photographs were all shot in foreign cities, while Kristina Lee Podesva's focuses on the global nature of contemporary North American life. A trip to Japan is the source of Lucy Raven's photographs. For Oraib Toukan a juxtaposition on political art tourism: a man photographing the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, all within the frame of her own photograph. These images then, make their own "travel," through open reproduction and distribution via consumer available technology.

A supplementary reader will accompany the exhibition that will include texts chosen by the artists. Included will be John Berger, Joan Didion, Homi K. Bhabha, Werner Herzog, Italo Calvino, George Bataille, among others. This will also be available as a PDF download.

The image files and PDF reader will be available to download March 3, to coincide with the opening of the exhibition.

David Horvitz was born in Los Angeles in 1982, and currently resides in New York City. He has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, most recently with Light and Wire (Los Angeles), Sign (Gronigen), and Brown Gallery (London). A flip-book ofHorvitz's Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film was published by 2nd Cannons. With Mylinh Trieu Nguyen, David hosts collaborative projects under the auspices of ASDF, including A Wikipedia Reader, commissioned for the 2009 New York Art Book Fair, and For a Brief Time Only..., an exhibition of 24 artists distributed through drug-stores world-wide, which was the foundation for Kiosk.

For further information about the exhibition or to order a set of prints, please contact Jesi Khadivi: jesi@goldenparachutes.net or + 49 (0) 30 86 45 22 22.

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A different project happened last year, which can be seen as a "root" to this.