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24/4/2009

A Momentary Fantasy

Scaramouche Gallery (old location), New York

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a cura di David Everitt Howe

''Ci sono anche, probabilmente in ogni cultura, in ogni civiltà, luoghi reali - luoghi che esistono e che si formano nello stesso fondamento della società - che sono qualcosa di simile ai contro-siti, una sorta di utopia effettivamente emanata in cui i siti reali, tutti gli altri luoghi reali che possono essere trovati all'interno della cultura, sono rappresentati, contestati e invertiti contemporaneamente.” - Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces

Ampliando l'osservazione di Daniel Defert sulla teoria del filosofo Michel Foucault:
“il letto dei genitori evoca, come prima figura di Eterotopica, il luogo che i bambini amano penetrare per il piacere della trasgressione e del loro sogno ad occhi aperti”, “A Momentary Fantasy” ritiene la casa come una rete di contro-siti: spazi per le crisi biologiche e le sue proprie transizioni.

Tramite opere Site-Specific, installazioni, performance e lavori interdisciplinari, i giovani artisti New Yorkesi: Natalie Beall, Jonathan Van Dyke, Carla Edwards, Jessica Segall, and Jeremy Wagner, realizzano un'astrazione del concetto di “casa”. Descritto come un efficace spazio utopico, un luogo che riforma le convenzioni sociali, Foucault definisce l'eterotopia come “altrove” e “altro”— aperta emarginazione, periferica e isolata. Adottando lavori domestici, oggetti, simboli e spazi per creare costruzioni mitologiche, ''A Momentary Fantsy'' presenta uno scenario psicologico identificato ma fuoriluogo , uno spazio liminale tra decoro e utilita', tra realta' e surrealta'. Qui, la casa e' considerata una fantasia eterotopica, momentanea, disillusoria.

Opening: Sabato 25 April, 2009, 6-8 PM
(la Performance di Jess Segall alle 7 PM)

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Curated by David Everitt Howe

''There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilization, real places - places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society - which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.''

-Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces

Expanding on Daniel Defert’s observation that philosopher Michel Foucault “evoked the parent’s bed as the first figure of heterotopia, the place that children love to penetrate for the pleasure of transgression and the reverie of origins,” “A Momentary Fantasy” considers the home as a network of counter-sites: spaces for crises and transitions. Through site-specific installation, performance, and interdisciplinary work, the artists Natalie Beall, Jonathan Van Dyke, Carla Edwards, Jessica Segall, and Jeremy Wagner abstract the home—Beall industrializes domestic decoration by turning escutcheons into a ceiling trim of non-functioning vents; Van Dyke constructs a small closet with a translucent door dribbling paint from its absent doorknob; Edwards coils branches with pink string, and stacks them in a transparent wood grate as if in a fireplace, and she further plays with tropes of “home” by quilting a cross of American flags died black; Segall composes live and projected narrative songs, duets, and scenes enacted in the rooms of a house; with rust, Wagner etches the imagery of an elaborate chandelier into a metal sheet.

Described as an effective utopic space, a place reformatting social conventions, Foucault defined a heterotopia as “elsewhere” and “other”—marginalized, peripheral, isolated yet also open. Adopting domestic crafts, objects, symbols, and spaces to orient them as mythological constructs, “A Momentary Fantasy” presents a psychological scenario, a liminal space between decoration and utility, real and surreal, placed and placeless. It considers the home a heterotopic fantasy—a momentary one, disillusioning.

Opening: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6 - 8 pm, with a performance by Jessica Segall at 7 pm

Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli
53 Stanton St - New York
Gallery hours: 11a - 6p Wed. - Sun. and by appt

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