Two exhibitions
dal 15/2/2002 al 16/3/2002
Segnalato da
Bettina Allamoda
Dave Allen
Lucio Auri
Daniela Brahm
Paschutan Buzari
Ceal Floyer
Jürgen Mayer H
Mathilde ter Heijne
Isabell Heimerdinger
Sofia Hulten
Jeroen Jacobs
Christoph Keller
Ulrike Kuschel
Mathieu Mercier
Angelika Middendorf
Jonathan Monk
Olaf Nicolai
Kirsten Pieroth
Miguel Rothschild
Les Schliesser
Yuan Shun
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Barbara Trautmann
Susan Turcot
Anke Westermann
Warren Neidich
April Elizabeth Lamm
15/2/2002
Two exhibitions
De Chiara Gallery, New York
The Berlin Files: Punk, rock, country, soul, most good art doesn't fit into bite-sized categories. The same may be said of the artists in this group show, an appetizer-Documenta of artists living in Berlin in the year 2002. In the Project Room: Warren Neidich: Conversation Maps. In the world which has been transformed by cyberspace and cyberculture the notion of how we understand the body has changed as well. The body as it exists the lines that define curved space time relations becomes disincarnate.
The Berlin Files:
curated by April Elizabeth Lamm
Punk, rock, country, soul, most good art
doesn't fit into bite-sized categories.
The same may be said of the artists in
this group show, an appetizer-Documenta
of artists living in Berlin in the year
2002. As the fearless German saying
goes, "Ich lasse mich nicht in eine
Schublade stecken" (I don't let myself
be put into a drawer). Nevertheless,
these artists were willing to create a
work for us to be displayed in drawer,
tongue-in-cheek, under a very tight
deadline (a month) in a very tight space
(129 x 102 x 7 cm).
Ready and willing to participate were
Bettina Allamoda, Dave Allen, Lucio
Auri, Daniela Brahm, Paschutan Buzari,
Ceal Floyer, Jürgen Mayer H, Mathilde
ter Heijne, Isabell Heimerdinger, Sofia
Hulten, Jeroen Jacobs, Christoph Keller,
Ulrike Kuschel, Mathieu Mercier,
Angelika Middendorf, Jonathan Monk, Olaf
Nicolai, Kirsten Pieroth, Miguel
Rothschild, Les Schliesser, Yuan Shun,
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Barbara Trautmann,
Susan Turcot, and Anke Westermann.
This show marks the curatorial debut of
April Lamm, an American living in Berlin
since 1998. She writes for Frieze, Tema
Celeste, and ARTnews.
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In the Project Room:
Warren Neidich: Conversation Maps
In the world which has been transformed
by cyberspace and cyberculture the
notion of how we understand the body has
changed as well. The body as it exists
the lines that define curved space time
relations becomes disincarnate. On the
internet all we see are words which
shroud the body from its nature. Black
or white, young or old, tall or short,
feminine or masculine each body adopts a
secret identity.
Warren Neidich's "Conversation Maps" are
inspired by the networks of
conversations which occur at any time
all across the internet and are encoded
in mathematical equations and referred
to as conversation maps. This work
shown for the first time in New York
displays the magic illuminations of a
loosley choreographed dance of deaf
individuals signing to each other during
a banal and everyday concerning their
plans for the Thanksgiving weekend. What
the viewer witnesses and is entranced
by are lights attached to the fingers of
the participants which make molecular
patterns in the air.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 16, 2002 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00-6:00 pm
De Chiara Gallery
521 West 26th St., New York City 10001
t.212.967.6007
f.212.967.1604