Erica Bailey, Yumi Janairo Roth, Nadine Wasserman Exhibitions

Smack Mellon

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Smack Mellon presents Erica Bailey’s multimedia installation Its memory, the memory of its ribs, its knees, its shoulders, and Yumi Janairo Roth and Nadine Wasserman’s collaborative project ArtSourced: Call Center.

Detailed 1/12 scaled dioramas housed within Erica Bailey’s three-room installation allow viewers to experience intimate rooms from the artist’s past, in both life-size scale and in miniature. Fragments of her adolescent bedroom in rural Ohio and her recently vacated Harlem studio apartment are presented as emptied, transient spaces alongside a disorienting view of Smack Mellon’s imposing interior architecture. Large video projections outside the elevated structure shift the scale once again in this uncanny architectural collage.

Inspired by global call centers, Yumi Janairo Roth and Nadine Wasserman transform the back gallery to functions as exhibition, performance, social sculpture and active call center for artists. On March 14, viewers are invited to call into a Philippines-based call center, manned by Filipino artists working with 98B COLLABoratory, for customer/technical support with artistic difficulties. In contrast to the typical call center experience with an anonymous disembodied voice, ArtSourced: Call Center subtly explores the dynamic between client and agent, questioning an accustomed relationship often filled with unspoken cultural assumptions.

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from March 14, 2015 to April 19, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-03-14 from 17:00 to 20:00

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