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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.
Chapman University
Guggenheim Gallery
February 1-March 12, 2010
Monday-Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm
**Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:30pm**
The Page
Curated by Karin Lanzoni & Rachelle W. Chuang
For this survey exhibition, over thirty artists from a broad range of
studio art practices were asked to submit one page (in the original or
poster format) from their artists’ book to mount on the walls of the
gallery. Accompanying original books or facsimiles will be on display
for viewing in a unique reading area designed by several Los Angeles
architects. Guest curators Rachelle W. Chuang and Karin Lanzoni
selected these artists—painters, photographers,sculptors, graphic
designers, printers, performance artists, and book artists—each
employing distinctive artistic strategies and techniques.
Artists include:
Rheim Alkadhi
Michael Asher
Kim Beck
Stephen Berens
Sarah Bryant
David Bunn
Robin Cameron
Carolee Campbell
Macy Chadwick
Rebecca Chamlee
Colin Cook
Harrell Fletcher
Christine Forsythe
Dan Goodsell
Nancy Jo Haselbacher
Deborah Hede
Margaret Honda
David Horvitz
Steven Hull
Amos Kennedy
Mark Robert Lewis
Steve Miller
Susan Porteous
Sue Ann Robinson
Moira Roth and Slobodan Dan Paich
Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Sumi Ink Club
Katie Lewis Underwood
Susan Viguers
Susan Weintz
Michelle Wilson
Jenny Yoshida
Reading Area Designed by Linda Chung and Daniel Herman
Chairs by:
Renee Dake Wilson and Brian Wilson (Dake Wilson Architects)
Tim Durfee
Pierpaolo Granata
Tom Marble (Marble Architecture)
Chris Puzio
Nathan Swift and Gloria Lee (Swift Lee Office)
Warren Techentin with Nima Payan and Machine Histories
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Chris Warren (WORD)
11 December 09 - 30 January 2010
Markus Amm, Otto Piene, Fritz Köthe, Marc Bijl, Nick Oberthaler, Evan Gruzis, Jen DeNike, Marcus Knupp, Daniel Keller & Nik Kosmas (Aids-3D), Chris Succo, LangundTroia, Dave McDermott & The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Screening: I Am Getting So Far Out One Day I Won't Come Back At All
14 January 2010, from 7 pm
screening starts at 7.30 pm
with films by Jen Denike, Guido Van Der Werve, David Blandy, Ola Vasiljeva, Lucky Dragons, David Horvitz, Joel Holmberg, Aldo Gianotti & Stefano Giuriati, Pilvi Takala, Teresa Abboud & Carlos Pello,Michelle Naismith, Daniel Devlin.
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Contemporary Art in the Bard College Stevenson Library
Paul Branca
Dawn Cerny
Lukas Geronimas
David Horvitz
Eric Legris
Lee Puckett
Curated by Allison Simpson
December 6- December 16, 2009
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
In Into the Archive, seventeen works (sixteen digital reproductions and one artist’s book) by six contemporary artists are integrated into the Bard College Stevenson Library collection. They are bound and shelved alongside the texts according to the subjects that inspired or informed them. Each piece is assigned a call number and is temporarily annexed into the library’s online catalogue. (library.bard.edu)
The discrepancy between the well-organized, strategic arrangement of knowledge in a library comes into contrast with the vastness of the work, allowing it to stand in relief against the concrete subjects that frame it. Marked by conceptual rather than aesthetic landmarks, the works of Into the Archive span all four floors of the library, enabling a more active viewing experience. The contemporary is juxtaposed with the historical, the lone star with a constellation of knowledge.
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