“Microscopic Eyes Detective Minds” Exhibition
VACATION
This event has ended.
Organized by Joeun Kim Aatchim
Welcome to Café Anxiety Drawing Club International. Nothing to be anxious about.
Out of the blue, I sent a video invitation via mobile message to artists I met in different parts of the world, saying that I somehow believe we’re standing together on the same latitude of thought span regardless of where we are now. Those who accepted my absurdly romantic invitation have entered this metaphorical café (in a mobile group chat). There they share their moods, clues, and anecdotes using only their drawings and other forms of images, virtually every day, without any verbal interaction.
I believe drawing is an individual ––sometimes too skeptical that it feels like a funny and is a melancholic business but sharing it shouldn’t be such. We’re drawing-athletes—image-wrestlers. This can be a Tinder for drawings to meet (i.e., you can respond or skip your turn for someone else to respond), and we’re comrade-muses in each other’s pockets.
The rule is simple: to share a drawing in our café chat, one must refer to someone else’s drawings/ images in the current thread with a microscopic observation regarding the resemblance of marks, narrative thread, or any other clues. Easy glance and clicking “Like” are prohibited in our café. One need only respond with his/her own image if the other’s image is appreciated. The members have created their own image, interlocking algorithm and culture —one even better than I envisioned in my invitation statement:
“I want this to be healthy kind. No selfish “SPAM” shall be on this table. Quick, immediate responses with exquisite humor and wit shall make us laugh; laughter is the healthiest organic supplement one can choose.
Or slowly fermented responses and growth of our own “culture”
—may help us digest our images and thought-span.
Gut health, gut instinct.”
CURRENT MEMBERS & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Liz Ahn
Sagie Azoulay
Jonathan Chacón
Nicholas Heskes
Layet Johnson
Jungah Kim
Wednesday Kim
Peter LaBier
Elsa lama
Asif Mian
Rocío Olivares
Kei Ota
Ana Rivera
Bryan Mcgovern Wilson
jianling zhang
I am thrilled to present the first physically traveling iteration of our daily image thread in New York City, July 3–7, 2019, at VACATION, New York (24 Orchard) This event is held in conjunction with the closing ceremony of my solo exhibition, eye jailed eye. (May 3 - July 1) These two exhibitions are inevitably connected:
In recent years, I not only lost my interest/ability to paint my own images due to trauma from an eye surgery, but as an obvious result of it, I poorly appreciated and passively overlooked images that others created. To sabotage my bad habit, I initiated this drawing club as my manifesto of how I will never go back to the apathetic past: my brand-new statement of how I will cultivate kind and keen observation as a collective daily practice & rescue.
Fifteen artists from nine different time zones (ever updating) have mailed their physical drawings that were originally shared on our phone screens. I have gathered the best telepathic, interlocking image- moments from our chat and from among the near-thousand images we shared. Now we are presenting some original works from our current moods: Microscopic Eyes & Detective Minds.
Please join us. I hope you will witness this rare chance to take a peek at what’s happening in Café Anxiety daily. We would love to share our moods, clues, and anecdotes with you.
JOEUN Kim AATCHIM
Founder and Romantic (Ruthless) Recruiter of C.A.D.C.I.
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Schedule
from July 03, 2019 to July 07, 2019
Opening Reception on 2019-07-03 from 19:00 to 21:00