The opening of Swoon’s Swimming Cities from Switchback Sea at the studios of Deitch in Long Island City was incredible!. Party was really fun thanks to the marching band, the super weather and the incredible installation by Swoon, which features different sort of cityscapes made of abandoned objects, cardboard, ladders and many rescued materials. There is somehow a mexicanish feel in Swoon’s drawings and papercuts that i kind of like a lot. And well, the rafts are something really amazing!… Seeing them drift on the East River in contrast with Manhattan was something kind of beautiful for me.
Abstract, mechanical beetle-like creatures, made of recovered and recycled consumer electronics and discarded materials, pick and forage their way through piles of trash which have gathered in the corners of the city’s streets:
ppndr-s is a work about a kind of new fauna that use to live in the large city context, specifically in the remainders generated by the city. In some places of Mexico’s downtown one can find mounds of consumption technology remainders where these smalls robotic beings achieve diferent kind of works such removing and expanding the garbage.
I’m pretty excited about going back to a city where artists make psyco tirol machines!
OTHER OPTIONS is a series of exhibitions and programs that have been happening across the United States since Oct. 2007, which investigate ways in which artists are dealing with the current climate of support for cultural production. By increasingly incorporating new models of resource allocation, community building, funding structures and forms of exchange as part of their artistic production, these artists are creating new possibilities for the role of contemporary art in an everyday context.
OTHER OPTIONS: NEW YORK includes projects by:
Forays (New York): http://www.forays.org
Josh Greene (San Francisco): http://www.josh-greene.com
Material Exchange (Chicago): http://www.material-exchange.org
Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR): http://www.kmikeym.com
Phill Orr & Ryan Thompson (Urbana, IL): http://www.joinre.com
Robin Hewlett & Carolyn Lambert (Pittsburgh, PA): http://robinhewlett.com/
Geraldine Juárez (Mexico City/NYC): http://www.tandatanda.org
Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY): http://www.jsfoundation.org
Public Programs: Artist as Foundation: Giving it Away
September 19, 7 PM
Panelists: Josh Greene, Service Works; Geraldine Juarez, Tanda Foundation; Joanna Spitzner, JS
Foundation. Moderated by Abigail Satinksy and Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE Sunday Soup Granting
Program. Followed by Anti-Advertising Agency/Foundation for Freedom (Steve Lambert & Anne Elizabeth Moore) 2008 Award Ceremony. Screening of FOOD + talk by Nato Thompson
Oct. 4, screening 4 PM, talk 5pm
FOOD (Gordon Matta-Clark, 1972, 43 min.) is a film documenting the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists’ cooperative, and will be introduced by Robert Kushner (employee/manager, ʼ72-ʼ74). This will be followed by a talk with writer and Creative Time curator Nato Thompson.
(RE) auction + Closing Reception
Oct. 11, 5 PM, closing reception: 6 PM
(RE) auction is an alternative RED campaign that aims to: raise awareness for AIDS in Africa, encourage conscious consumption, and provide a means of involvement for those unwilling or unable to buy (Product)
Red products.
OTHER OPTIONS: NEW YORK is hosted by Eyebeam and sponsored in part by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Sunday Soup Granting Fund, and others.
