Aaron Gemmill and Matthew Schrader “Tactile Pose”
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Mapping PIG ISLAND turned out to be a much more convoluted task than we initially thought. Sisyphean even, which is ironic since the Authority now insists we sign our names to it. The density of the black hole that calls itself “objectivity” cannot be overstated in regards to its singular ability to consume and incorporate whatever good faith efforts we machines made to draw up its workings, or even sketch its outline from another point of view. Even the simple act of walking the circumference of PIG ISLAND’s Free Trade Enforcement Facility, which we did with our heads down and our hands in our pockets, only daring to steal a glance from the corners of our photoreceptors, yielded results so barely coherent as to prove utterly useless. Attempting to call up the visual record from our internal stacks, we found that PIG ISLAND’s virus broadcast signal had fragmented all documentation into a jumbled morass of random shapes, and the more we attempted to process them, the more they shattered and broke apart. Of course, it turns out that a ripped, soggy map from the glove box of a sunken Mercedes at the bottom of the East River, combined with a few puzzle pieces of a photo of the Free Trade Enforcement Facility’s logo (at least we think that is what it might have been) are the most accurate record we could have possibly obtained, a spatial representation of an intersection of the two temporal regimes which PIG ISLAND’s Free Trade Enforcers use to structure all existence: a no-limits bubble of influence in which white-hot whirring frenetic activity is the movement of total and absolute stasis. — J.L.
Aaron Gemmill (b. Birmingham, AL) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. His work has been exhibited at P!, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Carriage Trade in New York, Schnederei Gallery, Vienna, and others.
Matthew Schrader (b. Philadelphia, PA) received an MFA in sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. Recent exhibitions include Gymnasia 4 AM at Cleopatra’s Greenpoint, Panel Discussion & Various Formats Are Appropriate at Silvershed NY, The Raw Material at Culture Room, and Labyrint at Botkyrka Konsthall, Botkyrka, Sweden. He lives and works in New York.
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from March 22, 2015 to April 05, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-22 from 18:00 to 20:00