through September 8th 2012
Ryan Lauderdale, Owen Kydd, Ignacio Torres, Chloe Wessner, Constant Dullaart, Andrew Pomykalski, Juliette Bonneviot, Ann Hirsch, Kevin Kelly, Aude Pariset, Artie Vierkant, and Sarah Faux.
Curated by Matthew Flaherty
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Ghost in the Machine - group show - New Museum - NYC
through September 20th 2012
International in scope, the exhibition spans more than fifty years and incorporates works by contemporary artists. The works assembled trace the complex historical passage from the mechanical to the optical to the virtual, looking at the ways in which humans have projected anthropomorphic behaviors onto machines that have become progressively more human. In place of a traditional, chronological approach, “Ghosts in the Machine” is conceived as an encyclopedic cabinet of wonders: bringing together an array of artworks and non-art objects to create an unsystematic archive of man’s attempt to reconcile the organic and the mechanical.
Friday, August 10, 2012
HAUSRAT / HOUSEHOLD ASSETS - ALEXANDRA BIRCKEN - Hamburger Kunstverein - Hamburg
through September 2nd 2012
The title of the exhibition, Hausrat, meaning "household assets" or "household objects", can be taken literally. The assortment of objects filling the exhibition space all have to do with household and home in one way or another. Many are plucked straight from the domestic environment – such as ironing boards, sledge runners and carpets – while others play on associations of domesticity or convey the sense of "home" as something offering cover and shelter. Detritus that would generally be regarded as refuse is given a new, modified form: Sweepings are permanently preserved in latex and shrivelled fruit and dried leaves are arranged into still lifes to produce what might be called "inventory snapshots" of domesticity frozen in time. Fittingly, one of the pieces featured in the show is entitled "Accumuli", while another is called "DNA" (both from 2012).
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi - Jikken Kobo / EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP - Gisela Capitain - Cologne
through August 31st 2012
At the end of World War II, Japan was left in ruins and a relative cultural void. There was a great need to redefine the various artistic fields. During this period, information on new cultural developments through books and journals was largely only available to the public through the library of CIE (Civil Information and Education section) set up by the Allied Occupation authority. Their weekly record concerts played the latest releases and also functioned as a meeting place.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Laura Vitale - White Sands - Recess - NYC
through September 15th 2012
Laura Vitale will begin work on White Sands, as part of Recess’s signature program, Session. Session invites artists to use Recess’s public space as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation. For White Sands, Vitale will create a research laboratory for testing the audio-visual properties and material behaviors of gypsum plaster. Vitale will also work with collaborators and interested visitors to undertake these investigations through various methods of performance and recording.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Charlotte Prodger/Jason Loebs - Essex Street - NYC
through August 19th 2012
An anonymous YouTube user posts domestic videos through the username Nikeclassics, documenting various acts of adoration and destruction to his pristine collection of trainers. The ritual of destruction and itssharing seems almost sacrificial in function, like a kind of sportswear potlatch. In his video nike air prestige high 13 the process of cutting the trainer down the middle and pulling it apart can be read as desire to see every part of the adored object, exposing in doing so the commodity as pure matter - a fetishism opposing part to whole.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Deep Space - group show - Francois Ghebaly Gallery - LA
through August 18th
Dan Bayles, Neil Beloufa, Darren Banks, Robert Fry, Sayre Gomez, Shawn Greenlee, Joel Kyack, Anthony Lepore, Candice Lin, Jory Rabinovitz
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Ulrike Oettinger - Sammlung Goetz/Base 103 - Munich
through October 6th 2012
Ottinger explores cultural phenomena and rituals that may often appear exotic to western eyes, taking us to remote, faraway places that reflect both the beauty and the harshness of human life. Her ethnographic portraits of landscapes and communities frequently possess a fairytale quality that almost imperceptibly blurs the distinction between reality and orchestration.
The 8-channel video installation is complemented by further video works and photographs by Ulrike Ottinger.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Jo Spence - Work (Part II) - Studio Voltaire - London
through August 11th 2012
Jo Spence (1934 – 1992) emerged as a key figure in the mid 1970s from the British photographic left, crucial in debates on photography and the critique of representation. Her work engaged with a range of photographic genres, from documentary to photo therapy, and responded to the prioritisation from the late 1970s onwards of lens-based media in art-critical discourse.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Bruce Lacey Experience - Camden Arts Center - London
through September 16th 2012
Bruce Lacey (born 1927) is one of Britain's great visionary artists. His lifetime pursuit of eccentric ‘making and doing’ has been a cathartic working-through of his experiences. This survey of a rich and diverse artistic production is a celebration of both his vibrant life (which includes working with Spike Milligan, The Beatles and Ken Russell) and his art which reveals telling links with the visual culture of the last 60 years. Co-curated by artist Jeremy Deller and art historian Professor David Alan Mellor, the exhibition charts Lacey’s artistic development in a career encompassing painting, sculpture, robotised assemblages, theatrical performances and installations, as well as community arts and ritual action performances.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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