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Opening reception: First Friday, June 4, 6 - 11 pm
Yes, Yes I am happy, aber glücklich bin ich
nicht.
The best art is like an iceberg. Cold and impenetrable, diffident
and austere—inhuman, an immense glass-eye whose dull and
lifeless gaze contemplates the abyss. The work’s vacant
stare forms a frigid surface that’s illegible, resistant
and indifferent to its imminent destruction as well as the currents
that buoy and shape its silent migration toward doom. Dreaming
of wreckage, corroded by external forces, and wracked by hidden
fissures and internal weaknesses, the immensity of its form is
inseparable from the process of its dissolution. If society thinks
in gold, as M. Teste once remarked, art thinks in ice—a
currency that melts in your hands and proves rather useful in
chilling a glass of whisky. The exhibition includes work by Ludwig
Fischer, James Johnson, Jacque Liu, Kirk Loubier, and Dustin Sparks.
Ray Studios Presents…
The second gallery features the collaborative effort of several
New York and Philadelphia based artists whose work revolves around
the fictional artist Ray. Ray's work addresses issues of transition
and conflict between the "primitive" and "cultured"
self. Ray Studios' objective is to act as a platform for thought
and reflection on these matters. Ray Studios Presents... is an
interactive installation within which the viewer has the opportunity
to participate in a simulated personal drama and be applauded
for his or her efforts. Included in this piece are an instructional
video; a small-scale theatre with stage, curtain, and seating
for up to a dozen visitors; custom moist towelettes; golf pencils;
sheet music; and more. Complimentary coffee will be served.
Meredith Nickie, This is Going Down
The fourth gallery will feature Meredith Nickie's This Is Going
Down, a new series of works that explore scenes of subjugation–full
of unrest, yet alarmingly still. Works titled after anthems of
protest, Strange Fruit and Waltzing Matilda allude to lynched
and drowned figures through entangled forms of race and class
struggle where the marked body is laid bare. In Nickie's exhibition,
the figure is made absent and represented by elements from the
domestic interior and the public sphere in sculptural constructions.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Moira Teirney, American Dreams #4
Tierney's work is engaged with post-colonial means of expression–as
the Haitian poet Rene Depestre put it, the profession of hybridization–by
which ex-colonized societies fuse their different historical influences
to create their own voice. As well as an experimental documentary
filmmaker, Tierney is a founding member of SOLUS, an independent
film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm
and DV. The group was formed in Dublin in 1998 with the dual aim
of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international
short and avant-garde films in Ireland.
SCREENING
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy
After three years of exhibitions in our Chinatown gallery, Screening
is proud to present its final exhibition: Organic Honey’s
Visual Telepathy, by groundbreaking multi-media artist Joan
Jonas. Known for uncompromising experiments that fuse her knowledge
of art history, modern theater, dance, sculpture and performance
art, as well as Kabuki and Noh theater, Jonas has produced a singular
body of work. These influences are on display in her 1972 videotape
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, all filtered through what
was, at the time, the newly accessible technology of video production.
Jonas’ performance-for-camera is part ritual, part magic
show, exploring the possibilities of the female image through
alter egos and technological transformation. More information
at www.screeningvideo.org.
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