April 2010 Archives
I am in the FAX show at Burnaby Art Gallery in Vancouver. I don't have a fax machine in New York, so I asked my mom to fax this in yesterday for me (the time of Vancouver's sunset for that day).
FAX
Second floor gallery
Through May 23, 2010
FAX Exhibit Talk with exhibition curator, João Ribas
Saturday, May 8 3:30-5pm
http://www.burnabyartgallery.ca/Home/Exhibitions/CurrentExhibitions.aspx
David Horvitz
Artist Talk, Tuesday, April 27th
Fillip and the Or Gallery are pleased to co-present a talk with Brooklyn-based artist
David Horvitz this Tuesday at 7pm at Fillip’s Vancouver office.
A prolific, and incredibly diverse artist, Horvitz’s practice incorporates photography, publishing, performance, and mail art, often through collaboration with friends and strangers. Many of his projects are completed through ASDF, a collaborative entity formed Mylinh Trieu Nguyen in 2007. Recent projects have included The Wikipedia Reader (2008–09), One Hundred $1 Grants (2009), and Songs for the Arctic Ocean (2009).
Following up on his visit to Vancouver last spring, Horvitz will present recent and upcoming projects, including Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum), a bound exhibition set containing works of 27 artists that were mailed out as gifts to various international libraries. This project operates through a sense of generosity and open distribution that are at the forefront of his practice.
Admission is free. Given space limitations, visitors are encouraged to arrive early to guarantee a seat.
- Fillip
- 305 Cambie Street
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- V6B 2N4 Canada
- 604.781.4417
- www.fillip.ca
An interview I did with Jenny Borland for Bomb Magazine's blog went up today:
http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=9872
Photograph from Jenny's cell phone. Korean green tea... Mmmmm...
I thought it was very necessary to make this post, even though I don't normally use my blog as a "blog."
The above photograph is my grandmother in Colorado. She is standing in the small town of Lamar, close to the Kansas border - the site of the Amache camp - one of the 10 camps that existed in the United States (other camps existed elsewhere) during the the Second World War to intern Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals living on the west coast of the United States (there were also camps in the US that interned Japanese descendants living in South America). My Grandmother was interned at Amache when she was a teenager. This photograph is from a camp re-union. Later, while I was an undergraduate student, I took her back to the camp with my mother, following the same train lines that she would have taken, and photographed the journey. (Those are stored away somewhere at my mother's house in California). The reason why I am writing this now is that my Great Grandfather, who I never met, who died in camp, had built an obutsudan (a Buddhist shrine) while in camp. Currently on view at the Smithsonian in Washington DC is an exhibition featuring objects that were made in camp by internees. This obutsudon is currently on exhibit there. If you happen to go, look for the name "Kawase."
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
March 5, 2010 – January 30, 2011
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/gaman/
Some of you know I used to tour with the band Xiu Xiu and do photo-projects with them on the road.
On their tour now (which I am not with them on), they are doing fund raising for At The Cross Roads, a San Francisco based community organization that supports local homeless youth.
For one of the donation options, for $50, they will send you a collection of Xiu Xiu photographs that I have taken.
See their web-site for more details: http://xiuxiu.org/