Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus

An exhibition about the passage of time perceived through materials, sounds and spaces. It examines how culture marks and sustains deeply personal connections with past moments. Taking its title from the 1984 album by British pop band Love and Rockets, the exhibition explores the way life is consumed by an underlying awareness of time through physical, aural and visual transformations from the old to the new.

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curated by James Voorhies

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven is an exhibition about the passage of time perceived through materials, sounds and spaces. It examines how culture marks and sustains deeply personal connections with past moments. Taking its title from the 1984 album by British pop band Love and Rockets, the exhibition explores the way life is consumed by an underlying awareness of time through physical, aural and visual transformations from the old to the new.

An obsession with the past is influenced by the commodities that come to represent experiences and define entire epochs, collectively and individually. Material culture (cassette tapes, vinyl, Polaroids, printed matter), actions (dancing, surfing, skateboarding, bicycling), environments (neglected urban cores and safe suburban peripheries) and sounds speak to the social relations and styles of each generation.

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven is about the implications of continual cultural transformation, of always making it new. When a style, sound, image or object ceases to be produced it tumbles somewhere into the past, into a state of gestation to be revered from a distance. Dependent on the degree of authenticity at its time of zenith, it can become a classic and recycled later, dug up and made relevant to another era. Its degree of classic-ness determines how intensely it is fetishized. And, its fetishization accounts for an eventual rise into contemporary culture.

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven investigates these ideas within discourses of modernism, postmodernism and current theories on our hyper-pervasive contemporary culture, a culture in which everything is immediately available and always accessible. Does anything disappear long enough today to become a classic?

ARTISTS Guy Ben-Ner, Joachim Brohm, Gerard Byrne, Malcolm Cochran, Peter Dayton, Ben Kinsley, Lara Kohl, Jeremy Kost, Mark Leckey, Mary Lum, Dennis McNulty, Timothy Nazzaro, Johannes Nyholm, Pipilotti Rist, Cassandra Troyan, Jeffrey Vallance, Alejandro Vidal

Image: Johannes Nyholm, Andreas Nilsson, Bo Melin, The Knife: Heartbeats, 2002
digital video, 3:55 minutes
courtesy of the artists

MEDIA CONTACT
Brenda Tucker (415) 336-7528 brenda@bureauforopenculture.org

OPENING RECEPTION Jan 27, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Jan 27, 8:00 p.m.
Artist Ben Kinsley and psychic Larry Copeland
Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Avenue

AFTER PARTY Jan 27, 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
Seven Dreams at Skylab Gallery
57 East Gay St., 5th Floor (BYOB)

Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH

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IN ARCHIVIO [2]

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
dal 26/1/2011 al 11/3/2011