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20/10/2006

Christian Jankowski

The Kitchen, New York

Us and Them

Curated by Matthew Lyons and Debra Singer

Best-known for involving a range of non-artists -such as televangelists, psychics, and theorists- in the creative development of his works, Christian Jankowski presents new and recent videos, films, photography, and sculpture that question traditional ideas of artistic authorship and experiment with commercial filmmaking conventions. Exploring in particular the genre of "horror," the works in this exhibition suggest how cinematic visions of monstrosity and violence can also communicate broader notions of transformation, revenge, and redemption. Angels of Revenge (2006), for instance, is a new video and series of photographs for which Jankowski asked participants at a horror film conference to recount acts of betrayal and tell stories of imagined retribution. Other featured works include Lycan Theorized (2006), a video intermixing excerpts from an upcoming straight-to-DVD werewolf movie with alternate scenes devised by Jankowski; and a new 16mm silent film titled Playing Frankenstein (2006).
Exhibition programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo: Bob DeVito. Production still from Christian Jankowski, Playing Frankenstein, 2006, 16mm film. Courtesy of the artist, maccarone inc, Klosterfelde, and Lisson Gallery.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 21 6-8pm

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An evening with Esopus
Tuesday, October 24 7pm

In conjunction with the release of its seventh issue, the biannual non-profit arts magazine Esopus organizes an evening of readings and live music by past and present contributors. The evening’s theme--creative collaboration--is approached from four different angles by the four collaborating groups. For this event, film production designer Therese Deprez (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Dark Water) and cinematographer Ellen Kuras (I Shot Andy Warhol, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), who have collaborated on three films, discuss the process of working together to create the look and tone of a feature film. Christopher Durang stages and co-performs a reading of a short parody of Medea that he co-wrote with Wendy Wasserstein in the late 1990’s. Finally, in "Autographs," an audio-visual presentation recorded exclusively for this event, actor/filmmaker Jennifer Jason Leigh reads a series of short poems by Vincent Katz, accompanied by projections of never-before-seen drawings by his father, artist Alex Katz. (The entire suite of 12 drawings and poems is published in Esopus 7). The evening ends with a performance by Charles Bissell and Kevin Whelan of the Wrens, an independent band which contributed a track to an Esopus-themed CD.
Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street - New York
Exhibition Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm
Free admission

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