What Time is this Place
What Time is this Place
a video + performance series curated by Hope Hilton
June 6 – June 23, 2007
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
FREE and open to the public.
Why do you act? Why are you watching the clock?
Beginning June 6, "What Time is this Place" presents works by visual and performance artists in a 3-week series designed to investigate ideas of intervention, politics, poetics and anarchy. Considering social, political and cultural constructions, the artists invited are influenced by the unknown and the absurd, as well as by the examination of culture and what can be done within it to provoke and celebrate. The title was inspired by a video piece by Susana Gaudêncio of the same name, expressing ideas of conflict and wonderment between what is real and impermanent and what is constructed.
Program of events
June 6-9: Susana Gaudêncio will present "Inciting Agent", a 2-channel video that will run from 11am-8pm each day. Meant to parody stereotypical behaviours, Gaudêncio is interested in "more political notions of how the individual affirms or challenges the validity of social conventions, and how psychological states interact with the world, via fantastical/supernatural adjustments or interventions."
a video + performance series curated by Hope Hilton
June 6 – June 23, 2007
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
FREE and open to the public.
Why do you act? Why are you watching the clock?
Beginning June 6, "What Time is this Place" presents works by visual and performance artists in a 3-week series designed to investigate ideas of intervention, politics, poetics and anarchy. Considering social, political and cultural constructions, the artists invited are influenced by the unknown and the absurd, as well as by the examination of culture and what can be done within it to provoke and celebrate. The title was inspired by a video piece by Susana Gaudêncio of the same name, expressing ideas of conflict and wonderment between what is real and impermanent and what is constructed.
Program of events
June 6-9: Susana Gaudêncio will present "Inciting Agent", a 2-channel video that will run from 11am-8pm each day. Meant to parody stereotypical behaviours, Gaudêncio is interested in "more political notions of how the individual affirms or challenges the validity of social conventions, and how psychological states interact with the world, via fantastical/supernatural adjustments or interventions."
Opening reception June 6 from 8-9pm.
June 11-15: Tim Laun will present "The Atlanta Cyclorama", a panoramic video portrait of the world's largest painting. This work investigates the Battle of Atlanta during the Civil War and is premiering June 10 from 8-9pm and every evening between 7-9pm.
Closing reception June 16 from 8-9pm.
June 17-23: Nat Slaughter + invited guests will present public interventions in the form of music and sound, walking tours, parties, public installations, picnics, newspapers, sporting events, healings and informative gatherings. The schedule will be posted in the window.
Closing reception June 23 from 6-9pm.
About the Artists
About the Artists
Susana Gaudêncio was born in and has had solo shows in Lisbon, Portugal and participated in group shows in the Netherlands, Barcelona, New York City and Liverpool. The recipient of the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation Research and Specialization Grant, Susana is currently pursuing her MFA at Hunter College in New York City, USA.
Tim Laun has exhibited work in solo shows in New York and Glasgow, Scotland, and group shows in New York, Glasgow, Barcelona, Paris and Frankfurt. In 2005, Laun curated an highly acclaimed exhibition at the Bertha and Carl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, "Upon Further Review: Looking at Sports in Contemporary Art." He is currently preparing for a solo show at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, opening in August 2007.
Nat Slaughter is a composer, artist and curator from Atlanta, Georgia. He has exhibited in London, Beijing, Atlanta, Athens, Los Angeles and New York. He is collaborating with Hope Hilton on a worldwide performance scheduled for September 2007.
Hope Hilton is an artist, curator and co-founder of the artist collective Dos Pestañeos. As an artist, Hilton curates, collaborates, designs, writes and walks.
www.dospestaneos.com
www.dospestaneos.com
