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17/3/2006

Mind the Gap

Smack Mellon Gallery, New York

Group show

Curated by Eva Diaz and Beth Stryker

Artists: Azra Aksamija, Jan Baracz, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Elizabeth Felicella, Stephen Hilger, neuroTransmitter, Kyong Park, Graham Parker, Marjetica Potrc, Michael Rakowitz, Doris Salcedo, Ines Schaber, Lise Skou and Lasse Lau, Sancho Silva and John Hawke, bAlex Villar

Mind the Gap examines the residual spaces of cities: spaces left over as a result of zoning, unclaimed spaces that are taken over for use by marginal communities, "dead zones" deemed un- or underdeveloped by master planners who intend to take over common grounds, and the spaces between spaces that are the unintended by-products of urban and architectural design. This exhibition presents work by artists that considers these residual spaces and so-called "urban voids" as places of particular interest, as sites for invention and do-it-yourself intervention. Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and urban-scale architectural interventions, these projects amplify and animate the urban void as a space for renegotiating the increasing circumscription of the public sphere.

Recent debates in New York City and elsewhere about the governmental use of eminent domain in annexing public land for private use have pointed to the diminished public control over broad swaths of urban centers. The artists included in this exhibition exacerbate this tendency by occupying, altering, or otherwise testing the motivations and conflicting interests behind urban planning: they ask who formulates such plans and who benefits from them. Hosted by Smack Mellon Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn, Mind the Gap is located on one of many waterfront areas in which cycles of deindustrialization, blight, and gentrification patterns in which dead zones feature prominently have been enacted and challenged. Mind the Gap foregrounds such contestatory practices.

A free catalogue which includes essays by each of the curators will accompany the exhibition.

Support for the exhibition is provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and HSBC.

Directions to Smack Mellon:
F Train to York. Exit to the right and walk downhill on Jay Street, towards the water. Make a left at the next block, Front Street. Make a right on Washington Street. 92 Plymouth is 2 blocks down, on the corner. AC Train to High Street. Take Fulton Street exit to Cadman Plaza W. Walk down to River Cafe and take right on Water Street. Walk down 3 blocks to Washington Street. Take left on Washington to Plymouth Street. 92 Plymouth is at the corner. B61 Bus to York and Gold Streets. Walk down York. Take right on Washington Street and walk to end at park to Plymouth. 92 Plymouth is at the corner.

Smack Mellon receives generous support from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York Community Trust, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Inc., The Rodney L. White Foundation, The Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation and the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society. Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management.

Daytime Reception: March 18, 4-7pm

Performance: by Graham Parker in lower Manhattan, Sunday, April 2, 2pm

On Flexible Architecture, workshop with Michael Rakowitz, Sunday, April 30, 2pm

Frequency, performance by neuroTransmitter, Sunday, April 30, 5pm

Outdoor film screenings, Brooklyn Bridge Park facing Smack Mellon, Sunday, April 30, 7:30pm

Smack Mellon Gallery
92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn - New York
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12- 6pm
All events are free

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