The Typhoon Continues and So Do You
dal 31/3/2011 al 30/4/2011
Segnalato da
Vahap Avsar
Hector Canonge
Joseph DeLappe
Patrick Dintino
Nick Fevelo
Yevgeniy Fiks
Gregory Green
Harvey Loves Harvey
Pablo Helguera
Colectivo Mishima
Yael Kanarek
Kristian Kozul
Julia Kul
Elizabeth Larison
Brian Leo
Paolo Pedercini
Public Studio
Ryan Roa
Christopher Robbins
Sayeh Sarfaraz
Aida Sehovic
Matthew Sleeth
Elizabeth Larison
Douglas Paulson
Ginger Shulick
Chen Tamir
Christina Vassallo
31/3/2011
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You
Flux Factory, New York
Artists' responses include a video featuring a repentant Milosevic, an eerily playful floor installation that will illustrate America's involvement in armed conflicts around the world, competing recruitment videos in the style of Civil War reenactments, and a series of plays that reinterpret Subcomandante Marcos' actions through the text of Japanese revolutionary Yukio Mishima. The exhibition is accompanied by a reader with commissioned texts that also respond to the "artifacts" of war.
Curated by Elizabeth Larison, Douglas Paulson, Ginger Shulick, Chen Tamir, and Christina Vassallo
Flux Factory is pleased to announce 'The Typhoon Continues and So Do You', an exhibition of new works through which artists contemplate four specific “artifacts” of war and how their original purposes are transformed through integration into larger society.
Armed conflict leads to unique forms of expression that pervade contemporary culture in myriad ways both visible and invisible, tangible and abstract. Deciding on objects and images that were originally intended for use by various institutions or political movements and that later experienced a re-appropriation by larger society, we considered how they came to occupy a different meaning in daily life. They are: (1) Transcript of the Milosevic war crimes trial at The Hague, (2) Balaclava face mask, adopted as a symbol of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (3) US Army recruitment video game, and (4) North Korean Hell March video and the ensuing discussion posted on YouTube.
Artists’ responses include a video featuring a repentant Milosevic, an eerily playful floor installation that will illustrate America’s involvement in armed conflicts around the world, competing recruitment videos in the style of Civil War reenactments, and a series of plays that reinterpret Subcomandante Marcos’ actions through the text of Japanese revolutionary Yukio Mishima. The exhibition will be accompanied by a reader with commissioned texts that also respond to the “artifacts” of war.
Participating artists include Vahap Avsar, Hector Canonge, Joseph DeLappe, Patrick Dintino, Nick Fevelo, Yevgeniy Fiks, Gregory Green, Harvey Loves Harvey, Pablo Helguera & Colectivo Mishima, Yael Kanarek, Kristian Kozul, Julia Kul, Elizabeth Larison, Brian Leo, Paolo Pedercini, Public Studio, Ryan Roa, Christopher Robbins, Sayeh Sarfaraz, Aida Sehovic, and Matthew Sleeth.
Reader contributions by Rodney Dickson, Pauline Julier, Biko Koenig, Nick Kolakowski, Carin Kuoni, Morgan Meis, Catherine McMahon, Gregory B. Moynahan, Oliver Ressler, A.E. Souzis, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor.
Related presentations, screenings and performances:
Saturday, April 9th, 6pm. Objects of War and Their Reappropriations. Performance by Pablo Helguera & Colectivo Mishima and presentation by Anya E.V. Liftig.
Thursday, April 14th, 8pm. Geographical and Social Landscapes of Conflict, Both Real and Perceived. Short film by Owen Mundy and documentary by Jayce Salloum, to occur in conjunction with Flux Thursday, Flux Factory’s monthly potluck dinner and arts salon.
Sunday, May 1, 3:30pm. Knowledge Creation and Propagation: Justifying Choices in War and Reparation. Short film by Nadia Awad and presentation by Maxwell Neely-Cohen.
Preparations for Existing in and Surviving through Zones of Conflict. Short film by Alana Kakoyiannis and a short film by Oliver Ressler.
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Materials for the Arts; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.
Image: Pablo Helguera & Colectivo Mishima, Confessions of Another Mask, 2011
Opening reception: April 1, from 6 pm on
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101-3707
Hours: open weekends, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment (closed Easter Sunday)