September 6 - October 14, 2006
neo-con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art
Organized by Cristiana Perrella (curator, Rome,
Italy)
Artists: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Jonathan Monk, Yoshua
Okon, Joao Onofre, Mario Garcia Torres, Francesco Vezzoli
Re-enacting (with a twist)
famous conceptual works, the artists in neo-con level and humanize,
by quirky humor and down-to-earth
sensibility,
the key principles of Conceptualism like the favoring of ideas
over object-making, the dematerialization of the art object,
the production
of work in collaboration and often without a studio. Beneath
this playful, ironic take on art making is a serious scrutiny of
the
very idea of art, its status, appearance and market value, as
well as
the myth of the artistic genius.
October 18 - November 25, 2006
Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing
Organized by Andrea Grover (founder of The Aurora
Picture Show, Houston, TX)
Artists: Jeff Howe, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, Aaron Koblin,
Allison Wiese, Davy Rothbart, and others
Phantom Captain explores art collaboration that involves
amateur groups of individuals responding to “crowdsourcing” initiatives
created by artists. The term crowdsourcing was coined by Jeff Howe
and Mark Robinson of Wired Magazine and describes “user-generated
content,” or outsourcing labor to armies of amateurs. Crowdsourcing
is the methodology behind websites like Wikipedia, Threadless, Ebay,
Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, etc., where without the user, all that
exists is the conduit for sharing media. User reviews and recommendations
are the driving force behind websites like Netflix and Amazon. While
crowdsourcing is becoming common practice in business (see Howard
Rheingold’s Smart Mobs), its potential is also being harnessed
by artists to create communal artworks.
November 29, 2006- January 6, 2007
Thanks: Returning the Favor
Artists: Felipe Arturo, Nayia Frangouli, David Greg Harth, Vandana Jain, Matt Keegan, Kambui Olujimi, Lisi Raskin, Paul Wirhun, Joe Scanlan, Alejandra Villasmil
Whether a gift for a superior, an inferior, a partner, family member
or friend, issues of intent and meaning are part of the wrapping.
This exhibition reconsiders the relationship of philanthropy, hidden
meaning and gift giving. Ten local artists have each been commissioned
to produce a "gift." A present for someone they don't
know. The only restriction given was that it had to fit in the
gift box we provided, otherwise we would show whatever they gave
us, with no censorship.
January 10 - February 17, 2007
Let Everything be Temporary, or When is the Exhibition?
Organized by Elena Filipovic (curator, Brussels, Belgium)
Artists: Michel Blazy, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Gabriel Kuri, Oksana Pasaiko, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Joelle Tuerlinckx
This exhibition brings together the work of artists that explore "temporariness" or,
more specifically, the possibility of temporal instability in the
work of art. It will include works that are premised on their own
fleetingness, instability and, at times, on their own destruction.
February 21 - April 14, 2007
Quick! Pull My Animated Finger!
Organized by Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser (creators and executive producers of Comedy Central's animated
series Drawn Together)
The
two Jews from L.A. who bring you Drawn
Together present the people that help write and
draw the series in an “art” exhibit. Artists from Rough Draft
Studios show unpublished, unaired, uncensored and mostly unseen stuff.
May 1 - May 12, 2007
The Theme of Violence
ABACA exhibition hosted by apexart
May 16 - June 23, 2007
The Museum of Crime and the Museum of God
Organized by Luc Sante (writer, New York)
July
7 - August 11, 2007
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