"Transport" Exhibition

Proteus Gowanus

poster for "Transport" Exhibition

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Recent economic chaos has laid bare the tentative framework that supports America’s culture of consumption. The auto industry, the quintessential symbol of the pioneering American spirit, has all but collapsed. The imminent scarcity and desperate search for new sources of oil, the essential nutrient of our economy, has raised the specter of poverty and social conflict on a global scale. Meanwhile, much of the U.S. populace is staying home, ordering in and watching reality TV. These developments lead us to ask where we – as individuals, as a nation and as a species – are going? Are we stuck? How does one get from one place to the next, anyway? And most importantly, perhaps, where exactly do we hope to arrive? These concerns set the stage for this year’s theme at Proteus Gowanus.

Please join us for TRANSPORT, an exploration through art, artifacts, books and events of How We Get There in the never-ending journey toward our destinations. From September through June, our thematic roaming will range from an experimental computationally-driven car network to meditation practices seeking transport through stillness or movement; from a modular sculpture made of transport palettes to subway sketches and space ship documentation.

We open our Transport theme with a demonstration of artist David Mahfouda’s social transportation experiment, WEeels, a project whose continuing development will take place throughout the year at the gallery. To participate in the project – and get a free ride to the opening, contact www.WEeels.org on the evening of the opening to make arrangements.

Further transportation options will greet you when you arrive at the gallery: Conveyor, a site-specific performance created for our opening night reception, offers our guests a new way of arriving. Paul Benney, one third of the performance collective TRYST, borrows from the group’s signature piece, “Assisted Street Crossing”, to transport you down the alley into the gallery.We encourage you to procure your own transport during the coming year to view our revolving exhibit and ongoing events.

Our 2009/10 TRANSPORT co-curator is David Mahfouda.

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