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Showing in Story Tellers: II Review of International Video Art

December 4, 2007 at 11:06 pm · Filed under Exhibitions

Story Tellers

(translated from Italian)

Opens on 1 of December at 19,00h, the contemporary video art exhibition STORY TELLERS care of Dores Sacquegna, in the Primo Piano LivinGallery in Lecce (Italy). The exhibition springs up as an identify-exchange between national and international artists, who were invited to discuss about the changeable system of the contemporary society looking for a cultural identity that always and everywhere was discussed.

A voyage through everyone experiences, memories and passions; people crossed by a physical and spiritual sense faculties. A guide to discover the study of the Story Tellers and relationship with art and society.

Artists and video-maker are the representatives of this new era, everyone with his own background and professional experiences, trying to put the Story Tellers’s doubleface together.
The exposure it’s composed in four art session: UTOPIC RESEARCH, THE SECRET OF EMOTIONAL MIND,ANIMATED POEMS AND TABLEAU VIVANT, STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
with the best video of :
BEATRIZ ALBUQUERQUE, ALINA & JEFF BLIUMIS, RABEA EIPPERLE, GRUPPO SINESTETICO, ANNIE ABRAHAMS, GABRIELA MORAWETZ, AES+ F GROUP, RUTH BAETTIG, KARINA SMIGLA-BOBINSKI, MAURIZIO ELETTRICO, LIUBA, DEBORA PRADO, TIMOTHY PICKERILL, PAUL GLENNON, MICHAEL GREATHOUSE, DONNA STACK, GIOVANNA PASTORELLI, ANGELA MOBLEY, IVO MIRAGLIA & LUCA SCORNAIENCHI, FANIS LOGOTHETIS, ANDREW KAUFMAN, SILVIA DE GENNARO, NICOLE ANTEBI, DANIELA STEINSAPIR, RABEA EIPPERLE, CHRISTOPHER BECKS.

On contemporary time will be presented alls videos (n.6 artists) presented during Bac!Festival 2007 to CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporanea Barcelona (Spain). www.bacfestival.com www.cccb.org

Artists: Grimanesa Amoros, Liuba, Elena Rossella Lana, Arena m-eats Corpicrudi, Karini, Silvia De Gennaro.

INFORMATIONS
Dates : O1 - 12 DECEMBER 2007
Visiting hours: every day from 17.00 to 21.00

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Face Forward Text

August 4, 2007 at 11:50 pm · Filed under Exhibitions

Joao Ribas, curator of The Drawing Center, wrote the essay for Face Forward.
You can find the front image of the card here with a couple of images from my video Mother.

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Showing in “Face Forward”

July 13, 2007 at 7:50 pm · Filed under Exhibitions

Face Forward

An exhibition featuring
Jesse Alpern, Charles Fre´ger, Andrew Guenther, Shaun Krupa, Summer McCorkle, Angela Mobley, Suzanne Opton, Tiffany Pollack, Tony Tasset

July 10 – September 10 2007 / Opening reception Wednesday, July 18, 6 - 8 pm

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THE LOBBY GALLERY AT 31 WEST 52ND STREET
31 W. 52nd Street, NYC 10019, between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas

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THE LOBBY GALLERY AT 31 WEST 52ND STREET showcard

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Recipient of a Now Art Grant

July 13, 2007 at 4:59 am · Filed under Grants, Public Art

Received a Now Art Grant for Truth Cards a project to be completed by November 2007.

Below is a description of the project. A website will accompany the project and is being produced in collaboration with my website designer Krystian Kochanski.

Truth Cards

In the ritual of utilizing a generic sentiment to give grandma on her birthday or a co-worker for her new baby, we use the greeting card-a combination of non-specific image and text. What is it about these flat words surrounded by pastel flowers on a piece of paper that continues to take us back to the store to look for another? Why do we choose this paper medium to state the things gone unsaid? How can a card be used to state difficult truths and explore  undercurrents in our relationships?  As an artist, I’m most interested in works that can shift one’s daily experience by encasing something challenging in an everyday known object—in this case, the greeting card.

Most recently I’ve been buying cards from stores, scanning them in, retaining the image and font and shifting the wording only slightly. The cards are then returned to the original site and placed among the originals. Using social spaces where cards are sold, allows anyone looking at greeting cards the access to these “truth” cards. Humor is an element to this body of work, as I am interested in giving the power to the card giver. For example, cards to a “Special Sister”” and “Terrific Father” are slightly altered to a “Competitive Sister” or a “Terrible Father”. The inside text is shifted minimally, just enough to change the cards meaning.

For the Now Art project, I would like to open this work up to other artists who would like to participate as card makers. I believe there are endless possibilities for the appropriation of the greeting card as an instrument for exploring and revealing familial, social and political truths.

Please contact me if you are interested in participating and being shown on the Truth Cards site. Each artist will have a page devoted to their card, a description of their work and a link to their individual website.

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