Make sure to check out James Kalm's walk through tours of some of the best of the NYC scene!.
A quick moment of reflection:
how would you, as an artist, feel about someone walking through your installation with a camera. A further question: what is lost in seeing an installation in a mediated format (i.e. on a computer scene as opposed to in person)?
To me, as an artist, an installation is to remind us of the primacy of sight in real life over that in a mediated experience. I am absolutely convinced (and I don't think this is controversial) that the mediated experience lacks in some way or other when compared to an unmediated experience.
It takes away an artist's right to surprise or to keep the viewer guessing. Think of anytime you have gotten angry at someone for telling you the ending of a movie without first giving you a "spoiler alert."
That being said, there are positive effects of Kalm's videos.
Celebrity. People know what you look like because James makes sure to talk to you in the video.
Exposure. Given the reality that most people find out about art shows/ artists through the internet they risk the possibility of having missed some free exposure (which installation art is really in need of)/ building a base for your art
$$$. Increased exposure means an increased base for your work.
Consider, finally, the following about installation art when considering the role of a funding base for installation art:
if you make installation art 1) you are not selling something immediately commodifiable and 2) it is necessarily resource heavy (7 rooms for two months in new york plus living expenses of two artist also dwelling in NYC).
What is an artist to do?
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Deitch projets
Deitch Projects is pleased to present Black Acid Co-op, the third collaborative project of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Their first installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh), commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, consisted of a labyrinthine assemblage of rooms, hallways, closets and observation platforms. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to The Station in Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman and produced by Eleanor Cayre, where it was installed in a duplex apartment. Their new piece continues the themes of previous versions specifically that of alchemy in a modern context and community, ritual and psychosis.
Black Acid Co-Op is the moniker for a counter-culture enclave embedded in the metropolis. In this incarnation, the artists shift the focus from the production of illegal drugs to sites of sub-cultural groups and how they are situated in the larger urban environment. The installation will expand on the notions relating to the connection between counter-culture and industrial society resulting in a spatial collage that extends itself into a vast architectural setting.
Despite the strong contrast of scenes, the entire installation will feel as if it is a unified system of spaces, interconnected and functioning together. Ducts, wires and tubes traverse rooms creating a semblance of an organism: architecture as body, electricity as capillaries, and volumes as organs. And the intended use of many of the sites will feel transformed or hybridized: factories have become homes, kitchens are used as drug labs, the radical chic living room is frozen in a museum, the high-rise is carved into makeshift maze to evade the law.
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January 11 - March 22, 2009
In Practice Winter '09
Carey Ascenzo, Becket Bowes, Tyler Coburn, Wojciech Gilewicz, Samara Golden, Rachel Mason, Amy Patton, Peter Simensky
Samara Golden, Yes no party, 2009. Foam-core, photographs, lights, mirrors, mixer, closed-circuit video. Dimensions variable
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The works in this exhibition are commissioned through SculptureCenter's In Practice project series, which supports the creation and presentation of innovative work by emerging artists. The projects are selected individually and reflect the diversity of approaches to contemporary sculpture. The exhibition will be on view January 11 - March 22, 2009.
Carey Ascenzo: Care, 2009
Ascenzo offers a love letter with strings attached in the form of a swap. Allocating her installation budget toward a gift to the organization chosen by the staff, Ascenzo requires in exchange a form of labor that will test the staff's comfort levels. Under the artist's supervision and coordination, SculptureCenter employees and its Executive Director will learn a song to be performed to be performed as part of SculptureCenter's public program "It's All Yours Now", March 15, 2009, at 4:00 pm. Inverting the usual relations of power and support within a museum to produce a collaborative performance, Care addresses the permeable boundary between artwork and non-artwork, and the potent combination of vulnerability and optimism in front of an audience.
Thanks to Paul J. Ascenzo and Ten Minute Turns (tenminuteturns.com)
Very special thanks to Sarina Basta, Mary Ceruti, Adrienne Garbini, Alexandra Lane, and Nickolas Roudané.
Becket Bowes: Social Isolate Club, 2009
Composed of a desk, a library, and a collection of objects, Becket Bowes will be inaugurating a new wing of the Social Isolate Club. The mission of the club is to define the nature of human isolation and decay through the lens of behavioral science, information theory, and a number of irresolute doctrines. The club will present a musical exploration into the meaning of the tragic death of Alan Turing, the great American computer scientist and theorist stigmatized for his sexual orientation in the 1950s; another incarnation of the Ship of Theseus; and some thoughts on logical structures. Throughout the duration of the club's inaugural exhibition, members of the Social Isolate Club can fill out the exhaustive web-based survey on human putrification at www.sicipedia.org.
Tyler Coburn: Medium No. 1 (Manhattan), 2009
Performance, technology, and urban poetics join together in Tyler Coburn's Medium No. 1 (Manhattan). Beginning on the first day of the year, Coburn will transmit improvisatory monologues and conversations recorded on walks across Manhattan to a thermal roll fax machine in SculptureCenter's basement. These daily transmissions will read as a continuous scroll, along a 25-foot long triangular structure, producing an eighty-two day portrait of a city through the interfaces of machine and mind.
Wojciech Gilewicz: In Practice, 2009
A series of oil paintings by Wojciech Gilewicz will be installed outside the SculptureCenter building. The surfaces and forms of the canvases are designed to make them appear completely invisible while they are on site. A documentation of the process of placing the works in their environment will encourage visitors to explore the periphery of the building. Using a map prepared by the artist, visitors are invited to search for the hidden paintings in the surrounding city space. Gilewicz is primarily interested in challenging visitors' perception of space, reality and their surroundings.
Samara Golden: Yes no party, 2009
This installation by Samara Golden is constructed out of found objects, photographs, mirrors, and live video. The piece includes a video camera that broadcasts live images to a monitor at its base. A spectator observing the sculpture is captured by the video camera, and is then able to view an altered version of himself or herself on the monitor. By using combinations of technology and traditional art processes, Golden presents the viewer with multiple ways to see and enter the work. She creates an endless circuit of transmitting and receiving between sculpture, monitor, and viewer.
Rachel Mason: Holy Empire of The Jaw, 2007-2009
Holy Empire of The Jaw is a portrait gallery of important figures in Rachel Mason's life. The portraits are made out of dental molds of the individuals' teeth inset into objects that relate to their life or temperament. The inspiration for the project comes from portraits of the Habsburgs, Holy Roman Emperors in Europe from the XIIV century onwards. The Habsburg Jaw, of particular interest to Mason, is a genetic underbite and enlarged jaw that is a developed trait of this dynasty, and became a celebrated symbol of power as represented in numerous portraits. Mason has taken the Habsburgs as a theme in previous sculptures and performances. In this project, Mason creates her own royal family in the setting of an alternative Holy Empire.
Amy Patton: Hairpin Magic Wand, 2008/2009
In this video by Amy Patton, two actresses are seen performing a single monologue written in response to an ambiguously labeled ancient Egyptian artifact on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mysterious voices chime in, and, through the privileges of prosopopeia, allow the hairpin/magic-wand to speak. Drawing on the conception of an echo chamber, Patton's work explores nonlinearity of time, and conceptual leaps that can lead to the dematerialization of the art object. Produced and performed in the lower level gallery space at SculptureCenter, the work was developed as part of a year-long collaboration with curator Christina Linden. Additional elements of the project will be presented in an exhibition opening April 19 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Peter Simensky: CONSULTING MEDIUMS. Finding meaning(s) in uncertain times., 2009
Peter Simensky's installation places divination rods within the lower level gallery space. The forms of these rods are based on the artist's research into the use of divining mediums. Simensky will use this knowledge to trace the space of SculptureCenter's basement, searching for objects of value hidden below the floor. Simensky's piece explores how artistic gestures create potential value, and how these sets of relations might find a form of translation within objects that combine the functional, the decorative, and the symbolic.
Olafur Elliasson "The Weather Project"
Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist, noted for his exhibition The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. That same year, he also represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale.
Here is a link to his extensive, continually compelling, exhibit at MOMA NY.
Olafur Elliasson "All is Full of Love"
To really check out his stuff, here is his website.
