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Free Money at Editions Artists Book Fair 11/6-11/8
I’ll be doing a Free Money performance and launching a new book as part of Vendorbar at the Editions|Artists Book Fair.
Free Money Performance: Saturday 11/7, Noon – 1pm at the Vendorbar Booth
More about Free Money at moneyactions.org
Editions|Artists Book Fair
Location: X Initiative/Formerly Dia.
548 West 22nd Street, Between 10th & 11th Avenue.
FREE to the Public: Friday – Sunday, 6 November-8 November 2009.
Hours: 11 AM – 7 PM Friday & Saturday; 11 AM – 4 PM Sunday.
VENDORBAR
VendorBar is part of an ongoing series of itinerant exhibitions and interventions, organized by Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn, in which art is presented to the public that is either free, with no copyright, or sold inexpensively. The goal is to open up direct lines of communication between artists and the public in order to make ideas and artwork more accessible. Past projects include Free Show, Disappearing Act, Holiday Shopping, Copiacabana, Copilandia and To Market to Market. For E/AB’09 VendorBar is inviting artists to directly engage the public by presenting actions, exchanges and services that result in the production and distribution of artists editions made specifically for the event. Participating artists will include ARTifariti-Western Sahara Collective, Mike Bidlo, Gaye Chan & Nandita Sharma, Kirby Gookin, Geoffrey Hendricks, Nancy Hwang, Robin Kahn, Amanda Keeley, Alison Knowles & Alan Bowman, Cary Leibowitz, Larry Miller, Ken Montgomery, Peter Nadin, Yoko Ono, Tom Otterness, Sal Randolph, Showpaper, and Elaine Tin Nyo.
3 Pieces performance at P.P.O.W. October 22
I’ll be reading aloud from a series of new language “drawings” on October 22 as part of “3 Pieces” at P.P.O.W.‘s Hostess Project. I’ll be presenting along with keiko uneshi (o.blaat) and Amanda Curreri & Erik Scollon.
P.P.O.W Gallery
511 W 25th ST, Rm 301
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Presentations 7–8:30 PM
3 Pieces is a series of evening presentations of three new pieces of sound, image, text or movement from local and visiting artists. Presented by Roddy Schrock and Deric Carner in various locations.
THE HOSTESS PROJECT is a new entity designed to serve as a starting point and platform to enable artists within all fields to present their work and increase their audience through one night events. All events are FREE and take place at P.P.O.W Gallery unless otherwise noted.
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The language “drawings” are texts made with a manual typewriter on long rolls of paper. As a kind of spontaneous “drawing practice” the words on these scrolls are free to follow one another according to an evolving set of principles including sound, shape, semantics, syntax, repetition, punning, play and association. ÝConceptual structures appear and disappear. Narrative and rhetorical argument are avoided and fragmented. These are intended to be texts without result, the residue of a practice that takes place unobserved: daily, meditative, noninstrumental. Read out loud they become an experiment in ambient language, a field of senses and sounds that slip in and out of consciousness, alternately instigating and interrupting trains of thought.
Art In Odd Places October 1-26, 2009
Would you leave money in the street for strangers to find? Try it and see. I’m seeking participants for Art in Odd Places this October. We’ll meet in small groups in parks along 14th street, and I’ll give each participant specially prepared dollar bills to place in public spaces at eye level. Meetings will take place Oct 10, 11, 17 & 18, 2pm. To participate, please RSVP to info [at] moneyactions [dot] org.
I’ll also be doing money actions on and around 14th street throughout the month of October – follow these on Twitter at twitter.com/moneyactions
Art in Odd Places 2009: Sign is the 5th Annual NYC festival featuring tours, performances, interventions, installations, video and more in public space. This year’s festival takes place along 14th Street in New York, October 1-26, 2009.
OPENING PARTY: October 1, 6-9pm, Theaterlab 137 14th Street.
More info and festival map: Art in Odd Places 2009: Sign
Summer 2009: P.P.O.W & Glowlab shows in NYC
I have work in two great shows this August in NYC.
First up: the wonderful Hope Hilton selected my Library of Art for inclusion in Young Curators, New Ideas II at P.P.O.W Gallery (Aug 6-28, 511 West 25th St. Room 301).
The Library of Art appears as part of Cleopatra’s Reference Library & Library
“Cleopatra’s invited a long list of friends, colleagues, and peers to participate in the formation of our Reference Archive and Library. Each cultural producer was asked to make a contribution of a book of their choice – something that reflects their personal curatorial, philosophical, theoretical, and aesthetic practices. At the conclusion of the exhibition at PPOW, the library will be moved and permanently installed at Cleopatra’s storefront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This ever-expanding bookshelf, which will function as an open resource to the public that will be built upon over time with thoughtful contributions by colleagues, mentors, and friends of all disciplines within the arts.”
A brief write-up by Art in America’s Andrew Capetta
And Time Out’s New York Your Perfect Weekend
And here are some pictures from the opening of Glowlab’s X: The Muliples Exhibition where I have some street stickers both inside and outside the gallery.
Glowlab (July 30-August 30, 30 Grand Street, btw Thompson & 6th Ave.).
Free Money at Figment, June 13, 2009
I’ll be giving a talk and handing out a bit of free money at the Figment festival of participatory art this Saturday.
Details:
4.15 PM at Pershing Hall, Governor’s Island, New York
Saturday, June 13, 2009
->Getting to Governor’s Island
->Finding Pershing Hall
Come on out for the afternoon – the festival has a zillion things going on, and there’s a great lineup of talks in Pershing Hall including Eric Sanner, Larry Harvey (founder of Burning Man), Tim Hwang, Wooster Collective and LoVid (also check out the Sunday lectures which include the inimitable Steve Lambert).
$1 Left At Eye Level, February 12, NYC
In the late afternoon on February 12 I’ll be leaving $1 bills at eye level in lower Soho and environs. Each dollar bill will be rolled together with a free rubber stamp multiple. You’re invited to come and find them.
The action is part of Glowlounge a gallery show and series of evening artists talks at Glowlab’s 30 Grand Street location throughout February. If you’d like to come to that evening’s Glowlounge event (Feb 12, 7-9pm at 30 Grand Street, NYC) please RSVP early (rsvp @ glowlab.com) as space is quite limited – I’d love to see you there!
Vote Change Write-in at Glowlab Oct 23-Nov 11 NYC
Vote Change Write-in will be part of Glowlab’s first show at their new Soho Space. Pick up free stickers at the gallery during the opening on October 23 (7-10pm) and after while supplies last.
“Vote Change Write-In” is a pair of street stickers. One says “What do you vote for?” and the other, “What do you want to change?” Each has a large write-in box for public comment.
They are simultaneously a celebration and critique of electoral politics, a prod to vote and an invitation towards imagination and participation that go beyond a few minutes at the ballot box.
Stickers will be installed in outdoor spaces throughout the neighborhood. You’ll also be able to pick up free stickers and sharpies at the gallery. Put them up yourself, or pass them around to friends. Add your own comments, or leave them blank for public write-ins.
More about the show:
“For “Thirty Grand,” Glowlab presents new prints and silkscreen works on panels by Jason Cantoro and Alice Jarry, two artists from Montreal who share a studio space and offer works rich with texture and densely layered with collaged imagery gathered from sources ranging from old cityscapes to vintage airplanes, motorcycles and roller coasters. New York artist David Kesting’s wall drawings and works on paper offer a timely and often humorous look at street culture, with a particular focus on the current economic stresses impacting daily city life. Beka Goedde’s recently completed small multimedia works on paper examine the delicate balance of structures in the built environment. Sal Randolph’s latest project includes a series of free stickers and an invitation to express one’s opinion about voting both inside and outside the gallery space.”
Glowlab is also the instigator of the annual psychogeographic Conflux.
Exhibition dates: October 09-November 11, 2008
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: 30 Grand Street between Thompson Street and 6th Avenue
Travel info: A/C/E train to Canal Street
Glowlab
Library of Art in New Orleans Oct 11 - 27
I have a show of very new work, “Library of Art, opening next week at (October 11) at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans.
“Library of Art” is an eight volume set of books: “Material,” “Process,” “Structure,” “Action,” “Situation,” “Duration,” and “Color,” each contain words or sentence fragments that can be combined to form an almost infinite number instructional artworks. An eighth book, “Participation” is left blank for anyone to record the works they create.
The beginning of an already-futile attempt to contain the world, the Library of Art looks at language as a magic trick – out of the immateriality of language you can make realities and then realities can collapse back into language. The thing and the name of the thing: we know they are from fundamentally different orders of being. And yet! Presto change-o! We can go from one to the other in an instant.
The Library of Art is inspired by algorithms and recipes, by Fluxus event scores, instructional works and the legalistic descriptive captions of conceptual art (the work of Barry, Cage, Kaprow, Knowles, Lozano, Ono, Weiner and others). By reanimating instructional art in the form of a library of possibilities, the hope is to open up authorship and let art be a game that everyone plays.
This exhibition of “Library of Art” was instigated by Austin Thomas of Pocket Utopia in collaboration with Christine Catsifas.
Appearing concurrently at Good Children Gallery will be Territories, a solo exhibition by Christine Catsifas. The exhibition features collage-based work in which image and text are reassembled into incommunicable, internal landscapes.
Good Children Gallery
Christine Catsifas
Pocket Utopia
Good Children Gallery
4037 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
http://www.goodchildrengallery.com
email: info@goodchildrengallery.com
ph: (504) 975-1557
Exhibition dates: October 11- 27, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday October 11, 6pm – 9pm
Gallery Hours: 12pm – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday
Postcard Image with the text of “Process”
Democracy Soup and Free Money in NYC Sept 26
I’ll be making soup and presenting free money as part of inCUBATE’s program at Creative Time’s Democracy in America at the Park Avenue Armory, Friday Sept. 26.
I’ll be serving an open source, user configurable lentil soup from 6-9pm and giving away some Free Money c. 8pm. Those present will receive a sum of money and a choice.
Creative Time’s Democracy in America Convergence Center will be going on all week (9/21-9/27) at the Armory — tons of great performances, talks, programs, artist groups will there, so it’s definitely worth a stop.
Democracy in America is open from noon to 10pm daily
643 Park Avenue, between 66TH and 67TH Streets
(New York)
inCUBATE (Institute for Community Understanding of Art and the Everyday) from Chicago will be serving soup all week as part of their Sunday Soup Granting program – proceeds from soup sales go to fund an art grant, and everyone who buys soup can vote on who gets the grant.
Program for soups and presentations: SoupProgram.pdf
Exchange Rate in Thailand July 7 - 31
I have a piece called “Exchange Rate” in the Chonburi International Art Exhibition at the Eastern Center for Art and Culture at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.
Exchange Rate is a new piece in the Free Money series. It consists of a platter of Thai and US currency with instructions in English and Thai:
If you have money, give some.
If you need money, take some.
The show, curated by Edith Abeyta and Jessada Kongsommart, includes Marshall Astor, H. Mathis, Merry-Beth Noble, S. Ian Song, Matthew Thomas and Hague Williams.
> Blog & pics from participating artist Marshall Astor