"September 27th – December 1st: Yve Laris Cohen and Park McArthur" Exhibition
Recess
This event has ended.
This fall, Yve Laris Cohen and Park McArthur will work as part of Recess’s signature program, Session. Session invites artists to use Recess’s public space as a studio, exhibition venue, or grounds for experimentation. Laris Cohen and McArthur will use Recess as a space to work on individual and collaborative projects concerning the politics of inclusion, the inconclusive boundaries of subjectivity, and the aesthetics of care. Their efforts will consider the pressure that bodies barred from or refusing correction apply to the rehabilitative turn in contemporary art, as well as the generative consequences of delay in times of insistent, unrelenting presentness.
The artists’ lived realities in the studio workspace—negotiating physical accessibility, negotiating the conditions of storefront display—will generate aesthetic material. Born of their existing involvement in each other’s lives, Laris Cohen and McArthur’s artwork will engage the asymmetrical and layered relationships of bodies and objects: body to body, body on object, objects across bodies. Rather than taking a strictly phenomenological approach to temporality, degeneration, and coordination, the artists will present surfaces, textures, and residues as central platforms of activity and support.
Processes and procedures of art production and care work exceed and exhaust representation. By listing all of the people who have carried and lifted her body, for example, or by cataloging all of the surface imperfections made to his sculpture during construction and exhibition, both artists attempt to track genealogies. It is likely that, due to their incompleteness and overabundance, Laris Cohen and McArthur’s inventories only ever create left over material as they come into being.
[Image: "Hesitation Change" (ME 2012) Video still, Itziar Barrio - Videographer]
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Schedule
from September 27, 2012 to December 01, 2012
November 15th 9:00 PM - Yve Laris Cohen and Park McArthur Performance
Closing Reception on 2012-11-29 from 19:00 to 21:00