Anxious Spaces
dal 4/7/2015 al 25/7/2015
Segnalato da
4/7/2015
Anxious Spaces
Knockdown Center, New York
Installation as Catalyst is Clocktower's annual performance and installation festival. The 2015 exhibition brings a dynamic selection of artists to Knockdown Center's dramatic compound.
Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst is Clocktower’s annual performance and installation festival. The 2015 exhibition brings a dynamic selection of artists to Knockdown Center’s dramatic compound for a month of on-site development, kicking off the exhibition with a celebration of the work and its fluid transformation from environment to stage.
The opening event on July 5 features a special set by Aurora Halal in the backyard ruin, Lucas Abela playing glass with his face, and Prince Rama activating their zen waterpark in the outdoor patio. The evening with culminate in a 24-person improvisation with Abela’s IV drip drum machines.
Clocktower presents the second annual group exhibition Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst, featuring a collection of artists whose work incorporates dynamic and time-based elements, ranging from robotic interactivity to performance events to social intervention. Knockdown Center’s vast expanses and mysterious sub-chambers create a dream environment for site-specific and installation art. Taken together, the architecture and the artworks transform the space into a surreal bazaar of curiosities for the adventurous.
Will Ryman presents Cadillac, a life-sized, 1958 Eldorado Biarritz convertible fabricated entirely out of resin and Bounty paper towels. Molly Lowe installs Growth, a sound/video piece and “garden” environment where the miraculous minutiae of plant life becomes alien and sinister. Lucas Abela‘s installation is made from medical intravenous drip equipment forested together and wired to audio gear to generate overlapping complex surround polyrhythms, turning into an instrument/drum machine orchestra to be performed en mass by attendees. Tim Bruniges presents Normalize (the pull of the earth) in collaboration with SIGNAL, a site-responsive sound installation engaging material tension and acoustic resonance within the architecture of Knockdown Center. Aurora Halal takes over a subterranean annex where a floating video is projected onto transparent screens, cloaking the mysterious cave in holographic effects. Prince Rama present Fountain of Youth 11:11, a water installation in the backyard’s roofless ruin. Audra Wolowiec‘s Concrete Sound is a modular series of cast concrete forms based on the geometric shapes of sound foam used in recording studios and anechoic chambers, installed as a wall relief.
Image: Motherboard Cockpit installation by Molly Lowe
Opening: July 5 (5-10pm) features a special set by Aurora Halal in “The Ruin”, Lucas Abela playing glass with his face, and Prince Rama activating their zen waterpark in the outdoor patio. The evening with culminate in a 24-person improvisation with Abela’s IV drip drum machines.
The exhibition will be on view Saturdays and Sundays from 2-6pm and by appointment.
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave, New York
Sat - Sun 2pm to 6pm