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2/5/2003

Enter Intercessor

Raid Projects, Los Angeles

between remediation and the self, some negotiations

Curated by Carrie Paterson

MAY 3 PERFORMANCE EVENT KICKS OFF ART EXHIBIITON

FOCUSING ON ‘MEDIATION’ AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

ENTER INTERCESSOR is a group exhibition that opens with a performance event and film screening on Saturday May 3, 2003 from 7-11 pm at RAID Projects, 602 Moulton Ave. (at The Brewery), Los Angeles. The show will run through Sunday, June 1 and includes performance-based artists from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Denmark, Britain and New Zealand. Gallery hours are 12-5 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and by appointment by calling the gallery at 323-441-9593.

Artists in the show include Lida Abdullah, Gustavo Artigas, Hadleigh Averill, Raúl Cordero, George B. Domantay, Morten Goll, Vinzula Kara, Carole Kim + Jesse Gilbert, Marcos Lutyens, Amitis Motevalli, Ellie Shoja and Joel Tauber.

The exhibition will present live performances and durational actions, documentations of performances, and hybrid works which use or reference a variety of media. Alongside the staples of video and photography are also presented drawing, conversation, turntableism, sculpture, film, hypnotism and streaming media.

ENTER INTERCESSOR examines media and "mediation" in two contexts at the same time – one, related to the documentation of performance-based art and the other, to negotiation. The artists in the show work within increasingly complex social networks of people, performers and recording media bodies. In their reference to multiple media simultaneously, they triangulate social positions that are neither static nor idealistically fluid, but continually performed according to will or due to historical and economic circumstance. In each case, the artists are engaged in actively repositioning themselves amid the ideological and technological forces of ‘mediatization’ – a hybrid term which can be best used to express the current outward expansion and consolidation trends of corporate-interest media as a kind of parallel to the ongoing colonization of minds and consolidation of national, ethnic, racial and gendered identities via the information in which corporate media traffics.

As artist-reporters ‘embedded’ in their communities, the artists selected for this exhibition offer a constructive approach to re-visioning dominant states of perception via works imbued with humor, instruction and interaction. Each attempt reclaims territories of representation, opening the way for an equal-opportunity exchange of meaning between participants while the position of spectator is constantly confused, undermined, complicated or refused.

The basis and possibility for critique lies in the way that media, in the hands of people rather than commercial or governing bodies, has the potential to correct a fault or deficiency in the term itself: while ‘media’ suggests something that allows for passage, too often this meaning travels only in the direction of power and monied interests, of dominant representations or stereotypes, or entrenched modes of thinking. ENTER INTERCESSOR announces the gathering of a new force of cultural production, one that has many heads and no central body, that goes forward and backward simultaneously, and in so doing can remediate the otherwise one-way processes of history itself.

A panel discussion with select artists from the show, moderated by Allan de Souza, will take place at RAID on Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 pm on the topic “From Feedback to Blowback – on Mediation as Social Praxis.”

“CONFORMED_BITS”, a one-hour improvisational performance using streaming media by Carole Kim and Jesse Gilbert, will be presented on closing weekend - Saturday, May 31 at 7:30 pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE CURATOR: Carrie Paterson is an artist, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches at UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Lida Abdullah was born in Kabul, Afghanistan 1973, and lived in Germany before coming to the US. She graduated from the University of California at Irvine with an MFA (2000) and has since exhibited both in the US and abroad. She has produced works in many types of media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance.

Gustavo Artigas b. Mexico City 1970, has shown his work at the San Diego Museum of Art (2002), P.S.1 in New York (2002), the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2002), at the Aperto of the Venice Biennial (2001), at the 7th Havana Biennial (2000) and inSITE 2000 project (San Diego-Tijuana) among others. His current works stage the social tension and extreme behavior present in games and disaster situations.

Hadleigh Averill is a performance artist and painter from New Zealand who now lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His performance works focus on audience responses to experiences that are more real than either logic or materialism. His works attempt to suspend the viewer’s conscious intellectual act and place him/her in a state conducive to direct experience.

Raúl Cordero b. Cuba 1971, internationally exhibits media works that infiltrate high technology with low tech strategies and solutions. Recently included in the VII Havana Biennial and Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, Holland, he is currently participating in the exhibition "Away from Home" at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. He lives and works in Havana.

George B. Domantay is a Los Angeles-based artist who is invested and engaged in producing installations and performances that continue the discourse and criticism of power relationships. Domantay’s incorporation of consumer products within architectural spaces are recontextualized into events where social concerns are addressed. He has performed and exhibited in numerous solo and collaborative exhibitions including Capital Art, Track 16 (2001); Irrational Exhibits 2, Track 16 (2003); the bear and the coconut, LACE (1998); and Posing as Andy Warhol Looking for Extraterrestrials and Two-Headed Llamas, in collaboration with Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lima, Peru (2002).

Morten Goll b. 1964, is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles who recently infiltrated the EU summit (Copenhagen, December 2002) with a press pass to mediate the conference as a plein air painter. His activities, as part of the grassroots media organization “More People Mediate,” generated a number of international news stories about the failure of the corporate press to address the concerns of the masses. He has exhibited widely in Europe and Los Angeles. For Goll, “art is communication, which to be meaningful requires that the involved parties exchange not only information but also identities. That is, one has to be a listener as well as a speaker.”

Vinzula Kara is a LA-based musique concrete composer of sonic fragments who uses turntables and audio-visual feedback loops in live performances to jog the memory and create an audio-scape of sound symbols and sonic glyphs. He is also known throughout the underground as the Fragmenteur Echoiste, The Trainwrecker, or, One Noisy Mother Fucker.

Carole Kim + Jesse Gilbert create improvisational new media performances and immersive environments for live events. They began collaborating in 2001 with FLOOD, a performance/installation presented at LA MoCA that used a streaming media feedback loop. Carole is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary focuses are on performance-based installations using live video and on the spatial/architectural potential of video projection. Jesse is a composer, software engineer and sound designer. They are both based in Los Angeles.

Marcos Lutyens is an intermedia artist who exhibits and conducts workshops internationally. His projects seek to build bridges between the digital, analog and neural worlds by projecting visitors into a vortex that interfaces their deepest levels of unconscious with the space around them. Projects in April and May include interventions at the University of Central England, & Fierce! performance festival, UK, FarSight, Mexico DF, "the [Unscene]" at CalPoly SanLuis Obispo, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects project room, "Candle Opera", Austin, Texas, and "Psicopolis", Cagliari, Italy.

Amitis Motevalli is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and community activist whose works attempt a visual desegregation of cultures and philosophies by infusing a traditional Islamic and pre-Islamic aesthetic into Western pop culture. She is strongly influenced by the diverse Los Angeles community where she resides and works - exhibiting, curating, teaching art and organizing around civil rights. See the story of her work with the Locke High School Student Union at http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/12/features-ehrenreich.php

Ellie Shoja was born in Iran but spent the majority of her life in Turkey and Germany. She moved to the United States in 1996 and has been living in California ever since. Her experimental performance and video works commute the energy of live bodies to media which disperse, fragment, multiply and disintegrate the possibility of an originary source.

Joel Tauber is a LA-based artist whose film "Searching for the Impossible: The Flying Project" chronicles his comic saga of bagpipe-powered flight underneath 40 large helium balloons over the Mojave Desert (2002). Tauber’s preoccupation with flight has been a long-time influence on his work. This is not at all surprising when we consider that the root of his last name, Taube, means dove or pigeon in German and that the first Tauber, who lived in Germany in the 17th century, raised doves for a living.


Raid Projects
602 Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: 323/ 441-9593

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