A Prism When in the Shade
A Prism When in the Shade
by Temporary Agency
chashama 855
855 Wyckoff Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
October 24 - November 9, 2014
(Artist conversation and screening to be announced soon!)
In June of 2014, the kidnapping of 3 teenage boys living in an Israeli settlement sparked a fever of militarized panic that resorts to massacre. Hundreds of Palestinian homes were raided unannounced by the Israeli Defense Force. Interrogation, incarceration, and the killing of Palestine citizens ensued – with a mention or two in a few major US and European news outlets.
What is done in the arts community to acknowledge such deplorable reiterations of legitimizing violence? A recent exhibition in New York clumped artists together as the "Arab World," basing it on a Godard film - only to find itself carrying the very syndromes that Godard had warned against. "A Prism When in the Shade" is a show of artists, living in Palestine and elsewhere, who make work that speaks to understanding composition, tenderness, and metalogic in ways we may not know how to know. It is neither a show of victimizing affect or all-inclusive utopias, but a show of phantom architectures and researches unfinished.
Dave Whelan conducts research and site interactions that invite inquiries into larger issues surrounding social power and biographies. Mohamed Abusal is an photographer based in Gaza City, Palestine. Samir Harb works with forensic design architecture to unearth political meanings within structures of dispossession. Juan Cisneros produces soundscapes and remixes images often derived online.
About the curators:
Temporary Agency is a cooperative art space initiated and operated by artists Kiran Chandra, Dominika Ksel, Amanda Pohan and Natalee Cayton. Temporary Agency brings exhibitions, screenings, lectures, performances and ideas outside of general institutional ideologies and capitalist frameworks to a public platform, collaborating with artists and community members to nurture a sustainable space of education, information and creativity.
Check out the Temporary Agency Facebook page here.
by Temporary Agency
chashama 855
855 Wyckoff Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
October 24 - November 9, 2014
(Artist conversation and screening to be announced soon!)
In June of 2014, the kidnapping of 3 teenage boys living in an Israeli settlement sparked a fever of militarized panic that resorts to massacre. Hundreds of Palestinian homes were raided unannounced by the Israeli Defense Force. Interrogation, incarceration, and the killing of Palestine citizens ensued – with a mention or two in a few major US and European news outlets.
What is done in the arts community to acknowledge such deplorable reiterations of legitimizing violence? A recent exhibition in New York clumped artists together as the "Arab World," basing it on a Godard film - only to find itself carrying the very syndromes that Godard had warned against. "A Prism When in the Shade" is a show of artists, living in Palestine and elsewhere, who make work that speaks to understanding composition, tenderness, and metalogic in ways we may not know how to know. It is neither a show of victimizing affect or all-inclusive utopias, but a show of phantom architectures and researches unfinished.
Dave Whelan conducts research and site interactions that invite inquiries into larger issues surrounding social power and biographies. Mohamed Abusal is an photographer based in Gaza City, Palestine. Samir Harb works with forensic design architecture to unearth political meanings within structures of dispossession. Juan Cisneros produces soundscapes and remixes images often derived online.
About the curators:
Temporary Agency is a cooperative art space initiated and operated by artists Kiran Chandra, Dominika Ksel, Amanda Pohan and Natalee Cayton. Temporary Agency brings exhibitions, screenings, lectures, performances and ideas outside of general institutional ideologies and capitalist frameworks to a public platform, collaborating with artists and community members to nurture a sustainable space of education, information and creativity.
Check out the Temporary Agency Facebook page here.
