ENACTING POPULISM IN ITS MEDIÆSCAPE Curated by Matteo Lucchetti February 18 – April 22, 2012 Press conference: Thursday February 16 at 11 am at Kadist Art Foundation Opening reception: Friday, February 17 from 6 to 9 pm. Alterazioni Video, Heman Chong, Luigi Coppola, Danilo Correale, Foundland, Nicoline van Harskamp, Steve Lambert, Oliver Ressler, Anna Scalfi Eghenter, Société Réaliste, Jonas Staal, Superflex. with a screening program curated by le peuple qui manque a public conversation with Ernesto Laclau (Thursday February 9, 7-9 pm) Kadist Art Foundation is pleased to present Enacting Populism in its mediaescape, an exhibition curated by Matteo Lucchetti, following his residency at the Foundation. Enacting Populism is an on-going project on the possible relationships between art practices and the populist mediascape that connotes the current political zeitgeist of Europe. At Kadist Art Foundation this project will develop into an exhibition that will take place during the last two months of the presidential elections campaign in France. The space here is interpreted as a sui generis political bureau, immersing the exhibition in an ambivalent environment where the works can be seen as elements belonging to a political party office where a campaign is being prepared. The show is focusing on the European populism that has heavily influenced the public imagery on politics for the last twenty years. Its leaders and agitators understood at an early stage the shift that occurred both in portraying the figure of the politician and in the role of the political discourse in the mediascape. In fact, when political ideologies ceased to give shape to the political agendas, with the end of the Cold War, the Western parties started to progressively mirror this ending with the flattening of their positions in the public debate, starting to respond only to a general capitalism discourse about a global market that needed to find its way. From that point the political action softened the natural antagonism of democracy, thus creating a lack of opposite and distinct political projects. This situation left space for a popular frustration to arise and consequently demagogues articulated it. Therefore those who understood how the space of politics worked slowly moved from being representative to openly playing with its representation in the media. Ernesto Laclau was one of the first to acknowledge to populism a dimension inherent to any democratic regime, looking at it through a historical perspective and not just as a right wing party phenomenon. As Laclau states,“democratic politics requires the construction of a ‘people’ on the basis of one or more empty signifiers as well as an antagonism between ‘us’ and ‘them’ “ . In order to create alternative, cheap and fictional feelings of belonging, or rather in order to ‘construct’ that empty signifier that is ‘the people’, the visual strategies that take place on a daily basis in the media might not only be seen as completely distorted productions of our times. Instead, they can also be considered as materials that can be easily deconstructed, so as to offer a clearer vision on what democracy looks like today. The process of enacting populism, to make the aesthetic strategies embedded in the creation of a visible consensus, comes together with interferences put at play with the mediascape. Here, the artistic projects find new potentialities to impact the contemporary imagery on politics as seen in the works produced for the show. Moreover, developing a historical perspective on the idea we have on populism, generates tools through which an awareness is created. Read an extended version of this text here.
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Enacting Populism opens Feb 17th in Paris
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Group show at Beacon Arts Building: Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism
Saturday, January 28 – Sunday March 11, 2012 Beacon Arts presents Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism, curated by Jennifer Gradecki and Renée Fox, which presents a selection of artwork and writing chosen for its clarity in questioning, exposing and reflecting upon various aspects of the current global economic crisis and neoliberal global capitalism. The exhibition features writing, video, sculpture, participatory and interactive installation, performance, painting, photography, and posters by Critical Art Ensemble, Gregory Sholette, Holly Crawford, Andrea Fraser, Noam Chomsky, Martha Rosler, Team Colors Collective, Occuprint, Derrick Jensen, Steve Lambert, Nicolas Lampert, Bask, Alex Schaefer, Cake and Eat It, Flora Kao, Jody Zellen, Meleko Mokgosi, Mira Rychner, Bob Golub, Marc James Léger, Matt Greco, Daniela Comani and Stih & Schnock, Aaron Burr Society, Dara Greenwald, Derek Curry, Ackroyd & Harvey, Pete Yahnke Railand, Lori Nelson, Dehlia Hannah and TWCDC (Together We Can Defeat Capitalism). Capital Offense opens Saturday, January 28, 2012, and runs through March 11, 2012. Exhibition special events include an opening reception on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 6:00 – 9:00pm, an evening of entertaining and thought provoking performances on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 6:00 – 9:00pm with award winning Stand-up comic Bob Golub at 6pm and a Salon hosted by Cake and Eat it at 7:30pm. The exhibition closes on Sunday, March 11 from 1:00 – 4:00pm, with an engaging panel discussion including some of the participating artists and guest speakers (to be announced). Beacon Arts is located at 808 N. La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90302. Regular gallery hours are from 1:00pm to 6:00pm Thursday through Saturday, Sundays 1:00pm – 4:00pm. For additional information please call 310-419-4077 or visit http://www.beaconartsbuilding.com
Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism Curator’s Statement: Since the global economic crisis began in 2008, our economic situation has become all the more urgent to understand and discuss. Social unrest is on the rise as time passes and nothing changes. Artists, intellectuals, and non-specialists alike are growing increasingly concerned with aspects of the global economic order, including: the destruction of the planet as a means to profit, the exploitation of artists and other workers as a means to economic and cultural capital, the deception of the populous (through fear tactics and disinformation) to maintain the status quo, the impact of gentrification and an unregulated housing market on affordable housing, the increasing power of corporations over people, and the effects of the recession on everyday life, to name just a few. Artists, intellectuals, and concerned citizens of the world are engaging in various tactics to initiate social and economic change: analyzing the financial sector, illustrating the consequences of economic policies, illuminating relationships between the art world and the world of economic power, democratizing knowledge from specialized spheres, revealing the impact of the economy of fear, questioning capitalist systems of value, and organizing to find solidarity after years of atomization, again, to name a few. As the disparity in wealth continues to grow, so does public interest in understanding and changing the social order that allowed for it. It is necessary to consider our own complicities in the impact that global capitalism is having on the world and its inhabitants. Please join us and add your voice to this important conversation. Beacon Arts – Housed within the iconic Beacon Arts Building, the venture offers innovative art programming to enrich the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. Its primary directive is to provide and maintain the integrity of an exhibition space for contemporary fine art by Southern California artists working in all media, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art. Works by both emerging and established artists are presented in an effort to provide a variety of ideas in different forms that both challenge and inspire. The endeavor seeks to enrich public understanding and appreciation of contemporary fine art by creating conversations through special events, lectures, symposia, and panel discussions with intellectual commentary on exhibitions. Beacon Arts is now over a year old, having completed its successful inaugural Critics-as-Curators series – consecutive shows conceived and curated by art writers and critics. This series ran for the first year of the space, from October 2010 to October 2011. The gallery plans to continue programming into 2012 with Prince at the Forum curated by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson March 24, 2012 – May 6, 2012 and a series of shows in the summer featuring our favorite artists (TBA), peppered with summer night video screenings. Beacon Arts Building – The 32,400-square-foot Beacon Arts Building is an iconic four-story, solid reinforced concrete structure located in the heart of the burgeoning Inglewood Arts District. Having stored inanimate items for close to sixty years, originally as the legendary Bekins Moving and Storage Company, this dramatic 1951 edifice has now transformed into a springboard and “beacon” for artistic expression. In addition to ground floor gallery and retail spaces, the building offers a gorgeous New York warehouse-style environment for professional artists, with spaces in various sizes up to 6,000 square feet with 11’6” ceilings. It has a high rear loading facility, large freight elevator, WiFi availability, and sprinkler system throughout. Beacon Arts Building sits prominently on La Brea Avenue, just South of Centinela, located only 11 minutes south of the 10 Freeway (I-10). Free parking is available in the on-site lot or on La Brea. For further information about availabilities in the Beacon Arts Building, please contact Scott Lane at 310-576-3543 or scottlaneco@yahoo.com. For more information, images, and interviews please contact Caroline Meer @ impulse2impact@gmail.com
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2012 deCordova Biennial
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Capitalism Works For Me! True/False is included in the 2012 deCordova Biennial. The show will be up in Lincoln, MA from Jan 22nd – April 22nd. The sign will be at the museum, and we’ll be taking it to locations around Boston around late March through mid-April – details on those trips to be announced. From the deCordova website:
The 2012 deCordova Biennial is a survey exhibition focused on emphasizing the quality and variety of work rather than any single or overarching theme. Highlighting artists from across New England, the exhibition displays a diverse range of approaches to media and content. The exhibition is co-curated by deCordova Curator, Dina Deitsch and Independent Curator and former owner/director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, Abigail Ross Goodman. The 2012 deCordova Biennial features 23 artists and collaboratives and will occupy almost the entirety of the Museum and beyond—reaching into the park, Boston, and nearby communities through several public, off-site projects. The 2012 deCordova Biennial Artists: Antoniadis & Stone Caitlin Berrigan Taylor Davis Jo Dery Kim Faler Matthew Gamber Jessica Gath Jonathan Gitelson Eric Gottesman Corin Hewitt Lauren Kalman Steve Lambert Mary Lum Megan and Murray McMillan Ann Pibal Matt Saunders South End Knitters Chris Taylor Ven Voisey Anna Von Mertens Joe Wardwell Cullen Bryant Washington, Jr. Joe Zane For The 2012 deCordova Biennial Deitsch and Goodman invited Ian Berry, Curator, Tang Museum at Skidmore College; Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and Denise Markonish, Curator, Mass MoCA to participate as Advisory Board contributors. The 2012 deCordova Biennial will be accompanied by an 88-page, color catalogue featuring essays by the curators and a guest essay about public art by Gavin Kroeber.
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This Space Available Documentary Premiers Nov 5
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I did an interview for the film, “This Space Available: The Grassroots Movement Against Visual Pollution” and it’s premiering at IFC Center in New York next month. Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign is also in the film. This Space Available A documentary film directed by Gwenaelle Gobe Executive Producer: Marc Gobe/Emotional Branding World Premiere at IFC Center/ New York Saturday November 5th Time: 7:00 PM Tuesday November 8th Time: 1:15 PM THIS SPACE AVAILABLE: Press Release
Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. But is a movement taking shape to reverse this trend? In This Space Available, filmmaker Gwenaëlle Gobé says yes. Influenced by the writing of her father, Marc Gobé (Emotional Branding), this new director brings energy and urgency to stories of people around the world fighting to reclaim their public spaces from visual pollution. From 240 hours of film, 160 interviews and visits to 11 countries on five continents, This Space Available charts a fascinating variety of struggles against unchecked advertising and suggests that more than aesthetics is at stake. If Jacques Attali once called noise pollution an act of violence, is visual pollution also such an act? Should we also consider, as one Mumbai resident says, “which classes of society can write their messages on the city and which classes of society are marginalized?” Gobé offers a canny generational analysis of visual pollution, laying blame not just with the advertising juggernaut but also an entire generation of Baby Boomers, whose consumption-based culture has implicated them in the environmental fallout. She argues that it’s her generation, left to do the cleaning up, that is now leading the fight back. But the filmmaker also recognizes the history and politics behind this fight. Turning to such legislation as the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, Gobé shows how the enforcement of this landmark law, designed to regulate outdoor advertising on America’s roadways, has steadily eroded. And today, public space activist Jordan Seiler faces harsh penalties for covering illegal outdoor ads with art, while officials turn a blind eye to illegally erected billboards. Still, the film strikes a hopeful tone. A standout interview features Gilberto Kassab, the popular mayor of Sao Paulo, who threw a stone into the quiet pond of the billboard industry by successfully banning outdoor media in his city – the eighth largest in the world. The move is not without precedent: Houston’s 1980 billboard ban was also a deliberate tactic to improve its flagging image, economic competitiveness, and quality of life. In the end, This Space Available challenges audiences to recognize that aesthetics and beauty go hand in hand with responsibility. Gobé asks why brands continue to ally themselves with an industry that cuts down trees, hogs energy, and spends its profits in courts and statehouse lobbies, especially while younger consumers push for improved corporate citizenship? And is everyone equally to blame for enabling the spread of visual pollution, while other humble individuals show that it’s possible to reverse it? The film navigates these issues without promoting a universal solution. Gobé instead weaves together stories reflecting diverse local responses to an increasingly global condition. This Space Available compels audiences to consider these stories long after the film ends, or at least to remember them each time we speed by a billboard.
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Capitalism Works For Me! at SPACES through October 21st
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Opening Reception August 26th More on the Spaces website
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A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World
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Dread Scott invited me to be a part of this exhibition at the Harlem Stage on Monday to celebrate the publishing of Bob Avakian’s new book. Dread says “times like these demand a joyous celebration of the possibility of a radically different future.” and I agree. The show includes artwork by: Derrick Adams, Wafaa Bilal, Richard Duardo, Emory Douglas, Skylar Fein, Kyle Goen, Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Steve Lambert, Wangechi Mutu, Dread Scott, SEN ONE UZN and Hank Willis Thomas. “These artist span generations, work in different media, employ different conceptual and aesthetic strategies, come from different countries and show everywhere from major museums to street corners. The exhibit includes photography, screen prints, video and painting. Some of the works starkly confront a world scarred by war and oppression. Other works encourage viewers to imagine how it could be radically different.” –Dread Scott Monday, 7pm Harlem Stage. For more info or to buy tickets: revolutionbooksnyc.org And if you’re still not sure if you should attend, Dr. Cornel West thinks you should:
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A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World
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Dread Scott invited me to be a part of this exhibition at the Harlem Stage on Monday to celebrate the publishing of Bob Avakian’s new book. Dread says “times like these demand a joyous celebration of the possibility of a radically different future.” and I agree. The show includes artwork by: Derrick Adams, Wafaa Bilal, Richard Duardo, Emory Douglas, Skylar Fein, Kyle Goen, Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Steve Lambert, Wangechi Mutu, Dread Scott, SEN ONE UZN and Hank Willis Thomas. “These artist span generations, work in different media, employ different conceptual and aesthetic strategies, come from different countries and show everywhere from major museums to street corners. The exhibit includes photography, screen prints, video and painting. Some of the works starkly confront a world scarred by war and oppression. Other works encourage viewers to imagine how it could be radically different.” –Dread Scott Monday, 7pm Harlem Stage. For more info or to buy tickets: revolutionbooksnyc.org And if you’re still not sure if you should attend, Dr. Cornel West thinks you should:
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If These Walls Could Talk – Los Angeles Exhibition
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I’ve been working away at 2 new pieces for If These Walls Could Talk a concurrent exhibition at Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon. These are new signs that are lined with aluminum. I’ve wanted to use this technique for a year, but just now was able to get everything together to make it happen. I’m quite proud of how these new signs turned out. It was exhausting work but I can stand back and say “I can’t believe I actually made this.” I will have photos up as soon as I can. In the meantime, please come (or send your friends) to these openings: Santa Monica Reception Saturday Feb 12, 2011 6-9pm <– I am flying out for this one Marine Art Salon, Santa Monica Chinatown Reception Saturday Feb 19th, 2011 7-10pm Charlie James Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles If you are in Los Angeles, please come! If you know people in Los Angeles, please invite them!
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False Documents and Other Illusions at Portland Art Museum
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False Documents and Other Illusions, looks at the various ways in which contemporary artists approach the idea of trompe l’oei, lillusion, or fooling the eye. It runs in conjunction with a traditional 19th-century trompe l’oeil painting show on view in another gallery called John Haberle: Master of Illusion. The New York Times Special Edition will be included in the show. Portland Museum of Art Seven Congress Square Portland, Maine 04101 October 30, 2010—January 2, 2011.
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Short Term Deviation at EFA
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I will have work in this show…
Short Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper September 23 – October 23, 2010 Opening event: Thursday, September 23, 6 – 10 pm The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts | 323 West 39th Street 3rd Floor NY NY 10018 (212) 563 5855 | info@efanyc.org Installations by: Catharine Ahearn, David Berezin, Grayson Cox, Charles Harlan, Steve Lambert, Francisco Marcial, Nadja Verena Marcin, George Pfau, Poster Company, Chris Rice, Borna Sammak.
Special four-part print series of Showpaper featuring new work from: Borden Capalino, Katja Mater, Arthur Ou, and Grant Willing, Curators: Jie Liang Lin, Exhibition; Jesse Hlebo, Print Series and Zine Library For up-to-date information on this project, check out the tumblr page. EFA Project Space announces Short-Term Deviation. Beginning mid-September, this collaboration with the print publication Showpaper, is a month-long exhibition, publication, video and music event. Bringing the spirit of Showpaper—which crossbreeds music, art and D.I.Y. culture—to full incarnation, the gallery space will be transformed into a combination artist-crafted performance space, zine library, and video screening room.
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Short Term Deviation at EFA
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Short Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper September 23 – October 23, 2010 Opening event: Thursday, September 23, 6 – 10 pm The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts | 323 West 39th Street 3rd Floor NY NY 10018 (212) 563 5855 | info@efanyc.org Installations by: Catharine Ahearn, David Berezin, Grayson Cox, Charles Harlan, Steve Lambert, Francisco Marcial, Nadja Verena Marcin, George Pfau, Poster Company, Chris Rice, Borna Sammak.
Special four-part print series of Showpaper featuring new work from: Borden Capalino, Katja Mater, Arthur Ou, and Grant Willing, Curators: Jie Liang Lin, Exhibition; Jesse Hlebo, Print Series and Zine Library For up-to-date information on this project, check out the tumblr page. EFA Project Space announces Short-Term Deviation. Beginning mid-September, this collaboration with the print publication Showpaper, is a month-long exhibition, publication, video and music event. Bringing the spirit of Showpaper—which crossbreeds music, art and D.I.Y. culture—to full incarnation, the gallery space will be transformed into a combination artist-crafted performance space, zine library, and video screening room.
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Headlands Center for the Arts Open House
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Headlands Center for the Arts Open House Summer Open House Sunday July 11, Noon – 5PM Headlands campus | Mess Hall Café Open | FREE Admission Open House provides a once-in-a-season opportunity to interact with Headlands’ Summer 2010 AIRs, Affiliates, and Graduate Fellows. View works-in-progress in artists’ studios, witness performances and readings, and explore Headlands’ campus situated in a National Park. Artists in Residence Katie Faulkner, Dance / Choreography, California Jeffrey Gibson, Painting, New York Kevin Haworth, Writing, Ohio Kühne / Klein, Visual, Switzerland Steve Lambert, Interdisciplinary, New York Richard Maloy, Visual, New Zealand Farid Matuk, Writing, Texas Mariele Neudecker, Installation, United Kingdom Brooke Singer, Photography, New York Allison Smith, Interdisciplinary, California Ola Ståhl & Kajsa Thelin, Interdisciplinary, Sweden Hadi Tabatabai, Visual, California 2010 – 2011 Graduate Fellows Miguel Arzabe, Interdisciplinary, University of California, Berkeley Johanna Barron, Visual, University of California, Davis Luke Damiani, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute Chris Fraser, Installation, Mills College Jamil Hellu, Photography, Stanford University Josef Jacques, Photography, California College of the Arts Scott Polach, Photography / Mixed Media, San Francisco Art Institute Tournesol Award, 2010 – 2011 Jack Leamy, Painting Affiliate Artists, 2010 Sarah Barsness, Visual Leo Bersamina, Visual Colette Campbell-Jones, Visual Christy Chan, Visual Tyrone Davies, Visual Christopher Gray, Visual Robin Johnston, Visual Julie Lara Kahn, Visual Pawel Kruk, Film / Video Helen Lee, Visual Tucker Nichols, Visual Megan Pruiett, Writing Kristina Quinones, Painter Sarah Rosenthal, Writing Kimberly Rowe, Painter James Sansing, Visual Joshua Short, Visual Wayne Smith, Visual / Music Michele Theberge, Visual Staff Holly Blake, Painting
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Just Art 2010 – benefit for NYCLU
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Twenty-two contemporary artists were chosen to participate in Just Art 2010. The Exhibit is curated in four clusters of work, each representing one of four issues central to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)’s work in 2010: Censorship, Privacy and Surveillance, Immigration Reform and Reproductive Rights. Each artist created artwork speaking to one of these four issues. While the show is eclectic in media and style to please almost any visitor, each cluster is cohesive; held together by a common medium or theme. Buy your Just Art 2010 tickets for the June 24 event here before they sell out! via Tinca Art – Home.
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Hollywood MerchmART at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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PUBLIC INTEREST: THE SUMMER CYCLE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 21 June 2010 – 26 September 2010 EMMA GRAY: HollywoodMerchmART! Curator Emma Gray will transform LACE’s storefront space into an artist-created souvenir shop. HollywoodMerchmART! aims to engage, confuse, and delight summer tourists on Hollywood Boulevard with works by both local and international artists. Ranging from postcards and maps to t-shirt and mini-sculptures, the store inventory draws inspiration from social-media and internet trends, as well as local objects found in nearby souvenir shops, thus speaking the language that is Hollywood. Prices will range from $1 to $200! Participating artists: Emily Joyce, Ashley McPeek, Collective Field, Richard Lidinsky, Brian Bress, Carolina Caycedo, Matthieu Laurette, Anthony James, Max Maslansky, Micol Hebron, PLUS the LA Vajazzlers, Kathryn Garcia, Kirsten Stoltman, John Kilduff, John Knuth, Steve Lambert, John Bucklin, and Zoe Crosher. In a brave attempt to multitask outside HollywoodMerchmART! John Kilduff of Letspainttv.com will jog on his treadmill on the Walk of Fame, while performing various mundane and creative activities (from eating chicken and blending drinks to painting portraits) for a modest fee. Kilduff will be performing on various occasions throughout the summer.
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Text Show opening at Park Life June 11th
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this is the book I have written for you A text-themed group show at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco June 11, 2010 through July 18, 2010 Opening Reception Friday, June 11th 2010. 7 – 10 pm. This exhibition will showcase work by emerging and established artists who deal with semiotics and whose use of type and language is a reoccurring part of their artistic vernacular. The work in this exhibition will both conceptually driven, purely abstract, or may use type expressionistically. The Artists:
Stephanie Brooks Dana Dart Mclean Michael Dumontier Karen Flatow Neil Farber Ed Fella Tom Friel Jeff Gabel Jason Jagel Steve Lambert Bob Linder Tucker Nichols Nigel Peake Mike Perry Jason Polan William Powhida Nathaniel Russell Michael Scoggins Josh Shaddock David Shrigley Zoe Strauss Wendy White
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June 23rd Senior Fellows Farewell at Eyebeam
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Senior Fellows Ayah Bdeir, Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse, and Michael Mandiberg are moving on from Eyebeam: come join us for a bon voyage party! Note: Event requires RSVP, you can do so at this link. As a token of our appreciation for their time with us, we're planning to hold a farewell reception the evening of June 23, 6:30 – 9:00, including presentations of their work while at Eyebeam, and their exciting plans on the horizon. Come drink a toast to their illustrious careers and bright futures. The event will take place in conjunction with our spring exhibition, RE:GROUP: Beyond Models of Consensus. If you’re interested in Eyebeam, this is a great way to learn more about the Fellowship model at the core of our mission and the artists, hackers, coders, engineers, and other creative technologists that make Eyebeam such an inspiring and energetic organization at the nexus of art and technology. via Senior Fellows Farewell | eyebeam.org.
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Palling Around with Socialists at U.Turn Art Space
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Palling Around with Socialists: a group exhibition June 5th – 26th, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm Cincinnati, OH—Since its inception, U·turn Art Space has sought to facilitate discourse towards imagining questions about the methods and practices of a functional society. In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component to an equitable community. Our nation presently finds itself in a culture war, where language is traversing outside the bounds of denoted definitions: words like socialist, fascism, tsar and terror are volleyed around public debates. While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater risk of misarticulating the perceived conflicts with which we are faced. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control. “The question of social change and art becomes then a problem of discovering the manner in which a new content modifies the conventional manner of expression: the manner in which purely aesthetic changes, occasioned by social changes, modify content to accord with newer forms. But insofar as the formal change may be socially conditioned, we must distinguish between those social changes that operate on the artist directly and those that operate indirectly.” –Meyer Schapiro in his essay “Art and Social Change” U·turn Art Space is located at 2159 Central Avenue in Brighton. Gallery is free and open to the public, with street parking in front of the space and on nearby streets. Regular gallery hours are on Saturdays, 12-4 pm, and by appointment.
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Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus
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Thursday, June 10 – Saturday, August 7, 2010 Exhibition opening: Thursday, June 10 Curators Talk: 5PM | Reception: 6-8PM Breakfast with the Artists: Friday, June 11, 10AM-12PM Eyebeam 540 W. 21st St (btw 10th and 11th Aves.) Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, in collaboration with Upgrade! NY and Not An Alternative, is pleased to presentRe:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, an exhibition which examines models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism. Re:Group proposes that with participation now a dominant paradigm, structuring social interaction, art, activism, the architecture of the city, and the economy, we are all integrated into participatory structures whether we want to be or not. The exhibition showcases work that subverts existing systems or envisions new alternatives to the ways in which individuals can take part, or choose not to take part, in social and cultural life. Re:Group opens to the public on Thursday, June 10, 2010, with a curators talk at 5PM and a reception at 6-8PM. The curators talk will be moderated by Beryl Graham of UK-based new media curatorial research institute CRUMB. Please note: The public opening is preceded by a benefit & private viewing on Tuesday, June 8, 6:30-9:30PM. For ticket information, visit eyebeam.org. The opening week continues with a “Breakfast with the Artists” reception & talk on Friday, June 11, 10AM-12PM, moderated by Re:Group curators and featuring exhibiting artists Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Christopher Robbins, and Giana González. Re:Group features work by thirteen artists, designers, hackers, activists, and collectives exploring both the potential and limitations of participation, networked collaboration, and distributed labor. From the “crowdsourced” projects Ten Thousand Cents and White Glove Tracking to the tactical media art of The Yes Men and Ubermorgen, from the urban interventions ofJohn Hawke and The Institute of Infinitely Small Things to the open platforms of Ushahidi and MakerBot – the exhibition represents a diverse range of critically and socially engaged work that rethinks the institutional practices within urban planning, civil engineering, transportation, industrial design and production, relief work, and the news media. Re:Group will include a full complement of public programs, organized as part of Eyebeam’s annual Summer School program. Eyebeam Summer School offers a lively mix of master classes, free public lectures, hands-on workshops and skillshares, and youth programs. Visit eyebeam.org for a complete schedule of activities. The exhibition not only presents completed work through gallery installations, but also functions as a platform for new collaborative work. Through workshops, master classes, and discussions led by the exhibiting artists, the processes and methodologies behind the work are opened up to gallery visitors and invited communities, providing an opportunity to extend and reinterpret the artists’ ideas in new and unexpected ways. Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus is curated by Upgrade! NY, the New York node of the international network, Upgrade!, founded in 1999 by media artist Yael Kanarek. The curatorial team is Eyebeam program manager Paul Amitai,writer/activist, Marco Deseriis, Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones of Not An Alternative, Eyebeam education coordinator Stephanie Pereira, and designer/educator Mushon Zer-Aviv. Participating Artists: John Ewing, Christopher Robbins & Carmen Montoya – Ghana Think Tank Giana González – Hacking Couture John Hawke – Mandatory Minimum: We Have Moved! The Institute for Infinitely Small Things – Corporate Commands Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima -Ten Thousand Cents Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings – Wish You Were Here: Postcards from our awesome future MakerBot Industries – MakerBot Christopher Robbins – Work Projects Administration 2010 Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth – White Glove Tracking Ushahidi – Crisis Map of Haiti Ubermorgen.com – [V]ote-Auction The Yes Men – Good Cop 15 YoHa (Yokokoji, Harwood) – Social Telephony
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Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich May 29-July 17
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Subject sitting in darkened room is told to watch a dot of light and draw a record of its movement on paper. Dot is actually stationary. But to most normal people it seems to move around, describing a wandering, irregular track. Drawings curated by Marcel van Eeden, with Maria Forde, Johan Gustavsson, Steve Lambert, Charlie Roberts, Rebecca Shapiro, Nedko Solakov, Stephan van den Burg, Porous Walker May 29 – July 17, 2010 Opening Friday, May 28 from 6 – 8 pm
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Lower East Side Printshop Residency Exhibition
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This reception and exhibition will show some of the work I did at the Lower East Side Printshop Special Editions Residency last year. LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP – EDITIONS ‘10: CATALOGUE LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION Reception for artists and catalogue launch party on Wednesday, May 26, from 6 – 8 pm Featuring: Karlos Carcamo Cammi Climaco Steve Lambert Enoc Perez William Powhida Catalogue essay by Sarah Kirk Hanley. Exhibition on view May 17 – July 3, 2010 Hours: Weekdays from 10 am – 6 pm, and weekends from 12 pm – 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Click here for directions. The Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to announce the Editions ‘10 catalogue launch and exhibition, with a launch party and reception for artists on Wednesday, May 26. With a catalogue essay by independent print curator, advisor, and appraiser Sarah Kirk Hanley, the publication and exhibition will feature new works created by recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions Residencies: Karlos Carcamo, Cammi Climaco, and Steve Lambert, and recipients of the Printshop’s Publishing Residencies: Enoc Perez and William Powhida.
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San Francisco Fine Art Fair
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I am exhibiting with Charlie James Gallery at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. All my hometown friends, please stop by and say hello to Charlie. There’s 4 pieces in the show including DO IT and It’s About Power. May 21-23, 2010 Festival Pavilion Fort Mason Center San Francisco, CA San Francisco Fine Art Fair – for tickets
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Steve Lambert at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art
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I’ll be showing work with Charlie James Gallery at the NEXT Exhibition in Chicago this year. Location: alongside Art Chicago at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago Cost: Adults: $20 daily or $25 multi-day pass | Seniors, Students or Groups: $15 multi-day pass | Children 12 and under are free. Dates: April 30 – May 3, 2010 About NEXT: More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations–galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world. more information: http://www.nextartfair.com
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New Work at Pulse New York Fair
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I’ll be showing some new sign work with Charlie James Gallery at Pulse New York. I don’t have pictures because I’m working on it now… Pulse New York General Admission $20, Students and Seniors $15 330 West Street Thursday, March 4 – Press and VIP Private Preview – 9am – 12pm Thursday, March 4 – Open to public – 12pm – 8pm Friday, March 5 – 12pm – 8pm Saturday, March 6 – 12pm – 8pm Sunday, March 7 – 12pm – 5pm
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“You Are Still Alive” solo feature at IMPULSE/Pulse Miami
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Charlie James Gallery presents “You Are Still Alive” at Pulse Miami 2009.
Steve Lambert will be featured at Impulse with Charlie James Gallery at the Pulse Miami Art Fair from December 3 thru 6, 2009. Selected works from Lambert’s “Everything You Want Right Now!” solo show will be featured, as well as the debut of his Arrow Sign print editions. This solo project will be entitled “You Are Still Alive” and is organized around the idea of the liberating power of simple truths.
Steve Lambert has been working as an artist and provocateur for over ten years now, disrupting the stream of corporate-driven communication that showers down on us 24-7, and more importantly empowering regular people to Think Different, and not in the way of those old, fairly vacuous Apple computer ads, but by actually causing it to happen through his work. For an example of Steve jamming the corporate communication system, we can look at his newest edition of prints. Steve bought a large, lighted arrow sign on a stand and put it up around LA with non-corporate and sometimes personal messages on it: You Are Still Alive pointing at a cemetery, for example. Funny, definitely, but poignant as well. Using the techniques of commercial signage, Steve will make for PULSE Miami light-box marquees that take commercial speech to its logical conclusion: Park & Spend, Money Laundered; Everything You Want, Right Now! Steve’s signs tell baldly, as if it were the truth, the lies that hide behind commercial signage: endless abundance, endless choice, consumption with joy. For his solo project at IMPULSE Miami, Steve will present a combination of lighted signs, hand-painted signs, and new print work in an installation organized around the idea of the liberating power of simple truths.
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$100 Drawing at The Arts Guild of New Jersey
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Moolah: An Exhibit About Money November 13th – December 11th Reception: Sunday, November 15th, 1-4 PM
The Arts Guild of Rahway 1670 Irving Street Rahway, New Jersey 07065
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