(projects at this location co-curated by Eugenie Perret of Minima) The exhibition space at 47 North Second Street, across from the Arden Theatre between Market and Arch, has been jointly curated for In:View by InLiquid.com and Minima (118 N. Third Street). Two floors of this currently vacant building will be home to installations by the following artists: Jennifer Butler-Kaler; William Cromar; Edward Dormer; Tristan Lowe; Sharyn O’Mara; Kevin Reay; Jeanne Scandura (Scan-Design); Jeannie Yip; and a multi-media installation by a Turkish collaborative, gad architecture. The building will be open during most evening and weekend Fringe performance hours, as well as additional hours (to be announced). Jennifer Butler-Kaler explores ideas concerning body perception, physical contact, and human sexuality through the influence of ironic humor. Her sculptures, which take their shape from such materials as latex, soap, nylons, human and synthetic hair, sand, surgical tubing, air sources, and various noise makers, aim to provoke the viewer's response by tempting and promoting physical interaction; sculptures that do not require touching can communicate ideas regarding the body and sexuality through scent and/or visual observation. The shapes are influenced by her observations of the human body, and often appear to have qualities from both sexes. A graduate of the University of the Arts, Butler-Kaler recently returned to her first love, sculpture, after several years working in graphic design. William Cromar will install 200207_puc[w], an "implicit volumetric figure" created by a containment area of tensioned wires and light, which will challenge the visitor's perception of space as they move around and within the piece. This piece is a variation on a work entitled 199812_puc[s], presented at the Fleisher Art Memorial in 1998. Cromar describes his primary medium as being space, which is defined by material structure used as an armature to reveal the immaterial "space image." A former architect and animated filmmaker, he holds an MFA from University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Fine Art; he has been a lecturer in printmaking, computer graphics, and architectural design at Penn’s Graduate School of Fine Art and at Philadelphia University. He currently lives in Virginia. Edward Dormer's In:View installation, MINEFIELD, directly confronts a wide range of scientific and political influences, bringing attention to our contemporary urge to control and propensity for self-reflection. Located in a deteriorated room, intentionally void of cultural references, MINEFIELD frames a shared metaphysical space across cultural lines. The physical combination of sugar, anthracite-dust, egg, and laser-excited protons is elegant and potentially volatile. Associative thoughts come to mind and overlap, regarding life cycles, energy consumption and modern warfare. Dormer’s site-specific installations have been seen in the US and Europe, in locations that are often dynamic in nature and loaded with subtext. They serve as both physical infrastructures and historic research centers that ultimately shape the context for each installation. Ideas generated, manifested in both indoors and outdoors work, all share common threads questioning our physical placement and interpretations of history within a contemporary political framework. gadarchitecture’s exhibition shows us new ways of designing projects with the changing times and, unlike many other architectural exhibitions, they make it with DVD films, which shows the process from thinking to constructing. At the same time they examine the question: "does the book and media kill the architecture?" gadarchitecture is an Istanbul and New York-based architectural office, founded by Gokhan Avcioglu. Ozlem Ercil and Durmus Dilekci are gad’s other partners. (gad is also an acronym for "global architectural development".) They have won numerous national and internation awards for their projects, which encompass buildings, interiors, renovations, as well as furniture and objects. Their Boxer Café and chan_ga restaurant projects were published Interior Design and Wallpaper magazines, and their Flooded House was featured in Monument magazine in July 2002 and in the September-October 2002 edition of Dwell magazine Kevin Reay is an expatriate conceptual artist from Northern England. His work recontextualizes the vocabulary of British pop-culture and contemporary art into the American landscape. Having studied painting at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Reay took what he learned to the Philadelphia, challenging his own cultural heritage and bringing new perspective to the city’s often parochial world-view. This new work, based on an early photo sculpture by British art duo Gilbert and George, will discuss issues of cultural identity, class struggle, and ingrained behavior. Reay is also co-founder and co-curator of currently address-less Pogo Gallery, which most recently presented a multi-venue exhibition of work by young artists, New Hormones. Tristan Lowe's enormous, inflated pink "Dumbo" elephant is a portion of a piece originally installed in the Pete and repete exhibition at the Dumbo Center for the Arts in New York in 2001. Much of Lowe's work deals with adulthood and childhood, and the polarities of each as they exist in our collective unconscious; he often uses fairy tales and myths to explore these topics in a less threatening way. This piece presents the dream side of what might be a dark subject, the magic and innocence of a fairy tale seen through a child's eyes. Lowe has shown extensively in Philadelphia, most recently in Cathartic-Gestalt-Disgust at the Project Room. In 2001 he was the first recipient of the Lois Fernley Award for excellence and innovation from Arcadia University, which will include the publication of a monograph on his work. In 1998 he was an Artist in Residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and in 1994 was recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Sharyn O'Mara's "untitled field (grid extension)" exists at the intersection of field and city grid. Fiber optic strand takes the form of a linear field of ethereal glass grasses that both define and subvert the city grid. Comprised of one of the most high tech communications materials, fiber optic strand and light, "untitled field" references the land that was before the city that became. O'Mara is a sculptor whose work for the past few years has explored the relationship the mapping of land (roads create lines, intersections, and grids) and the mapping of experience through written language (grammar and composition). Structure imposed on the topography of the land acts as a metaphor for the organization and division of language, and thus of the territories of experience. With the advent of literacy, communicating experience became limited by and an understanding of language itself; a fundamental connection to the land was lost. O'Mara earned a BA in Fine Arts from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is Chair of the Foundation Program and an Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art / Temple University. Funding for O’Mara’s project was funded in part by a grant from Temple University; fiber optics were generously donated by Corning, Incorporated. Jeanne Scandura will present Warp Three: An Interactive Installation of Video and Space, a multimedia work that explores the positive relationship and possibility of "nearness" between time and the spatial experience, the physical body and the virtual body through the use of video, architecture, and sculpture as organized by technology, materiality, and light. The installation builds upon research done during previous projects, including life-size paintings and raw video produced during the 2000 Fringe Festival, and manipulated video created during the 2001 Fringe Festival; this year, Warp Three explores our knowledge of the inhabitable world through the virtual disembodiment of a building facade. A practicing architect for eight years, Scandura has headed her own firm, Scan-Design, since 2001, practicing a holistic approach to design, landscape architecture, architecture, and interior design. She recently co-founded a new furniture/manufacturing company called Float (www.floatland.com). Scandura holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and is an adjunct faculty member at Philadelphia University’s Department of Architecture. JeannieYip’s multi-media sculptural works are tied together by the common language of dissecting and deconstructing, returning to an attempt to revive, resurrect, and reassemble. Through her constructed visual narratives, she probes the constantly shifting lines between memory and identity, fiction and truth. Yip’s untitled video installation for In:View documents her process of slowly unweaving a length of raw crimson-dyed fabric, stripping it apart thread by thread, leaving a luxurious mound of silk threads which are then put through countless cycles of washing and bleaching to remove the red dye, returning it eventually to its natural hue. The video of this process is projected upon the resulting ‘relic,’ a heap of tangled threads which Yip has combed and separated to prepare for the reweaving. Yip is a recent (2001) BFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.