"Short-Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper" Exhibition
EFA Project Space
This event has ended.
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.
In conjunction with "Short-Term Deviation," Showpaper will run a four-part print series featuring new work from Grant Willing, Katja Mater, Arthur Ou, and Borden Capalino. With musical notation in mind as metaphorical framework, the artists were asked to respond to photos of the empty EFA Project Space— allowing these to serve as the initial ‘notation.’ Each issue is printed monochromatically in one of the four standard offset printing colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), in homage to the composition of the printed object.
Dividing EFA Project Space into two distinct rooms, the varied installations in the performance venue and the library/screening rooms explore concepts of the material and immaterial through tone and ambiance, and to pose interventions. Events scheduled every Thursday consist of video screenings and musical and artistic performances that play with the concepts of structure and noise. In the performance space, Nadja Marcin creates a mobile installation to provide the framework for other performances in addition to her own, which she willperform weekly using ventriloquism to explore the “Four Poles of Assumed Truths.”
Travess Smalley and Max Pitegoff present new work based on their collaborative work as Poster Company. Borna Sammak creates an installation for a video landscape pieced together from captured footage. Catharine Ahearn fabricates a light-piece consisting of treated and layered found coupons.
The zine library/screening room will feature, "Fans", a dual-fan installation by Charles Harlan; “Hot Tubs”, an interactive silk-screened floor-piece by Grayson Cox; and projected video installations by George Pfau and David Berezin. The screening program will feature works culled from the genres of sci-fi, horror, and street intervention, rendering psychological spaces of stylistic and behavioral deviation. Videos include works by Ulu Braun, Hayley A. Silverman, Circular File (Josh Kline and Anicka Yi), Andres Laracuente, David Matorin, Dafna Maimon, Liz Magic Laser, and more. The zine library will feature a mixture of thirty commissioned and pre-existing artists books and publications: The Holster, Medium Rare, Alana Celii, JSBJ, _Quarterly, David Potes and many more to be announced.
[Image: David Berezin "My Nightmare," video still]
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Schedule
from September 23, 2010 to October 23, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-23 from 18:00 to 22:00