“The Cardboard Lover” Exhibition
American Contemporary
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The Cardboard Lover explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor. As it has shifted from a factory assembly line based model to nomadic networks of immaterial production, post-Fordist work privileges affect, flexibility, and agility, and is marked by an unstructured slippage between roles. Cultural theorist Sianne Ngai’s 2012 book Our Aesthetic Categories offers the term “zaniness” to index the aesthetic characteristics of this contemporary mode of production. Qualified as performance that is responsive and continuously adapting to its situation, ambiguously positioned between labor and play, careening through impersonations, and responsible for many registers of affect simultaneously, “zaniness” is an aesthetic of precarity.
The works featured in The Cardboard Lover variously assume the vernacular of the “zany” aesthetic. Here, works slide around or provoke the indexical limits of a medium, acknowledge their status as incomplete (the probability that they will be consumed as a jpeg, or via textual description), or directly confront how corporeal, social, and political histories become inscribed differently due to the destabilizing effects of zany labor. This exhibition encourages a reorganized mode of engaging with the object, in which its participation in forms, behaviors, or discourses of strain, excess, risk, desire, and duration are foregrounded.
—Curated by Annie Godfrey Larmon
Alisa Baremboym (born 1982, Moscow, Russia) lives and works in New York. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at The Vanity, Los Angeles (2013), and 47 Canal, New York (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Cookbook at Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris (2013), Speculations on Anonymous Materials at Fridericianum, Kassel (2013), Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again at castillo/corrales, Paris (2013), ProBio at MoMA PS1, New York (2013), and A Disagreeable Object, Sculpture Center, New York (2012).
Peter Brock (born 1986, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Milton Avery School of art, Bard College (2015). His work has recently been featured in exhibitions at Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn (2012), Fredericks & Freiser, New York (2012), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn (2011), New York Studio School Gallery, New York (2010), and in The Brucennial, curated by Vito Schnabel and the Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York (2010).
Alex Da Corte (born 1981, Camden, New Jersey) lives and works in Philadelphia. He graduated from the Yale University School of Art in 2010. He has recently presented solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine (2013), ARTSPEAK, Vancouver (2013), and Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York (2012). His work has been presented at the deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (2013), the Artist’s Institute, New York (2013), Rod Barton, London (2013), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2012), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), and MoMA PS1, New York (2009). He was named a 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts.
Aleksandra Domanovic (born 1981 in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include …Was ist Kunst?…, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (2013), Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel (2013), The Future Was at Her Fingertips, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2013), A Different Kind of Order, ICP Triennial, New York (2013), Liam Gillick: 199A-199B, CCS Bard Hessel Museum (2012), Remote Control, ICA, London (2012), In Practice, SculptureCenter, New York (2012), based in Berlin, n.b.k., Berlin (2011), Imagine being here now, The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway (2011), and Free, New Museum, New York (2010). She is a co-founder of the VVORK platform (www.vvork.com).
Joel Holmberg (b. 1982 in Bethesda, MD) lives and works in New York, NY. He has previously exhibited at the New Museum, New York, NY; Outpost, Norwich, UK; The Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY; The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN, W139 in Amsterdam, NL, The Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, Espace Gantner, Belfort, FR, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK. His work is in the collection of the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. He is a member of the web based collective Nasty Nets and studied at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Owen Kydd (born 1975, Calgary, Alberta) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has recently presented solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2013), Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver (2013), and Document, Chicago (2013). His work has been featured recently in group exhibitions at Thomas Zander Galerie, Cologne (2013), L.A. Louver, Los Angeles (2013), CSA Space, Vancouver (2012), Kansas Gallery, New York (2012), and Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea (2012). His work will be in the upcoming exhibition What is A Photograph? at International Center of Photography, New York (2014).
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Schedule
from January 16, 2014 to February 16, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-01-16 from 18:00 to 20:00