September 6 - October 4, 2003
Atteqa Ali, independent curator, PhD
candidate, Austin, Texas
Playing
with a Loaded Gun: Contemporary Art in Pakistan features
work by artists who explore the dichotomy of
life in Pakistan, taking the nation's most
difficult social, cultural, and political issues
and examining them in beautiful and playful
artworks. Artists: Imran Qureshi, Saira Wasim,
Rashid Rana, Reeta Saeed, Alia Hasan-Khan,
Ambreen Butt, Risham Syed, Hasnat Mehmood.
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited
Proposal Program]
October 11 - November 8, 2003
Pablo León de la Barra, artist
and curator, London
To
be Political it has to Look Nice presents
a series of intersections and distinctions
in current contemporary cultural production
from Latin America. The exhibition does not
seek to represent a totality of artists, but
rather looks at and liberates stereoptypes
of Latin American art. Artists: B-Lo, Stefan
Brüggemann, El Chino Ediciones, Eduardo
Consuegra, Day to Day, Galeria Chilena, Mauricio
Guillen, Helena Producciones, Larregui-Laguerre,
Olho Sao Paulo, Papi Paga Productions, Sebastian
Ramirez, Pedro Reyes, Los Super Elegantes,
Javier Tellez, El Vicio and others.
November 12 - December
20, 2003
What, How and
for Whom, curatorial
collective, Zagreb, Croatia
(Ana Devic, Natasa
Ilic, Sabina Sabolovic
and Ivet Curlin)
Looking
Awry deals
with aspects of repetition,
re-actualization, re-staging
and re-enactments (as
a form of change and
a source of knowledge),
in relation to both history
and contemporary political
investments of everyday
life and popular culture.
The accent is on repetitive
and performative elements
and re-enactments are
not based on sheer automatism
of repetition and appropriation,
but on the potential
of re-actualizing certain
actions, performed with
minimal and inevitable
shifts. Artists: Igor
Grubic (Croatia), Adrian
Paci (Albania), Maja
Bajevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
and Aydan Murtezaoglu
(Turkey).
January 7 - February 7, 2004
Craig Buckley, independent curator,
NY
While architecture and planning have often been privileged as sites
for utopian projection, the potential of small scale adaptations has
remained largely overlooked. Adaptations looks
at small-scale forms of independence and the context in which they
have emerged in order to get a better sense of the potentialities they
hold and the limits they encounter. Artists and collectives: Kim Adams
(Toronto), The Arnait Video Collective (Igloolik, Canada), Gardar Eide
Einarsson (Berlin), Nils Norman (London), Ocean Earth (New York), Michael
Rakowitz (New York), Raqs Media Collective (Delhi), Stealth Group (Rotterdam/Belgrade),
Oscar Tuazon and Dick Fishbeck (New York)
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited
Proposal Program]
February 11 - March 13, 2004
Janine Antoni, artist, NY
Treasure
Maps is an exhibition of images that
represent visual language in its broadest sense. Highly
specialized technical illustrations (DNA extraction,
matrix and vector space) will appear alongside ambiguous
drawing-like records of physical movement, allowing us
to explore, and in many cases invent, the internal logic
of each image.
March 17 - April 17, 2004
Stephen Wright, International Editor, Parachute magazine,
Paris, France
The
Use Value of Art Today: The future of the
reciprocal readymade and other art-related
practice. Anyone who really believes
that art, in any conventional sense of the
term, by "questioning", "investigating" or
otherwise "depicting" some socio-political
issue, actually empowers anyone to do anything
about it, is actively engaged in self-delusion.
Yet art continues to make such promises – using
its institutions to lend them not only a largely
unchallenged semblance of truth but the all
trustworthiness of convention – only
to immediately break them. Artists and collectives:
Bureau d’études, ®™ark,
AAA.Corp, Stalker
April 21 - May 22, 2004
Black
Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
May 26 - June 26, 2004
Peter Noever, Director, MAK Center for
Art, Vienna, Austria
O.K.,
America! aims to initiate a process
of reflection on the ambivalent meaning of
the "fingerprint" as a symbol of
modern society. The featured artists articulate
their position between the contrasting poles
of control and surveillance, identity and the
freedom of artistic expression. With artists
and collectives: Kendell Geers, Elke Krystufek,
Raymond Pettibon, Oscar Muñoz, Luo Brothers,
Rosangela Renno, Daniele Buetti, Ghazel, Jelena
Kowylina, Escape Group, and The Blue Noses
Group.
June 30 - July 31, 2004
2004
Summer Program - An invited writer, Cay Sophie
Rabinowitz, Senior US Editor, Parkett Publishers,
New York, has selected two gallerists - Henry Urbach,
New York and Brian Butler, Los Angeles - to each choose
two artists whom they do not represent for a group exhibition,
with the writer contributing a text.
Henry Urbach has selected Paul de Guzman and Wade Guyton.
Brain Butler has selected Efrat Shvily and Liliana Moro.
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