WHITE BOX - SIX FEET UNDER - MAKE NICE
fifth week, curated by Norman Kleeblatt (see below)
the curator with the artist: wearing: War on Terror and "freedom fries" t-shirt (homeland security fashion)...
note, the FBI and Homeland Security have their New York head quaters next door...:they have to pass by everyr day!
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9/11, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
AlQaeda, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
War on Terror, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inchesr
Evil Doers, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Axis of Evil, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Afghanistan, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Operation Enduring Freedom, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Enemy Combatant, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Homeland Security, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Patriot Act, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Weapons of Mass Distruction, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Old Europe, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Freedom fries, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Shock and Awe, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003/2004, work on paper, 11 x 14 inches
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Carolee Schneemann
here some "fundamentalists"... : Juan, AA Bronson - General Idee, my spiritual fathers - his friend, the artist in patriotic anit-terror uniform
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the empty spots in this set of 12 sent and 12 empty postcards are due to the fact that the US postmaster has not delivered all post cards with the special edition stamps made by the artist.
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some postcards are machine stamps.. with a horrizontal strip code, some arrive even wihtout that stamping - may be the US postmaster'sl way to say NO
soime are hand stamped in an expressive way.
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here, by mistake a card was printed up side down. here the mechanical vertical machine stamps are clearly visible.
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WEEK FIVE: RAINER GANAHL
(VIDEOBOX) Arthur Zmijewski
AUGUST 3rd -AUGUST 7th
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 4th 6-8 pm
Curated by Norman Kleeblatt, Curator of Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum
*With help from White Box Local 525 Despite the overload of information
and the speed with which it circulates today, the main vehicles for dissemination
remain text and image. Rainer Ganahl's art is devoted to language and
communication. Underscoring the political and physical threats to the
United States since September 11, 2001, Bushisms (2003-4) offers an archive
of sound bites that have become embedded in our vernacular through the
media. Working within a conceptual framework, Ganahl makes these work-intensive
drawings with a ball point pen. The nervous lines evoke the anxious environment
that these polemical phrases have created.
By contrast to Ganahl's textual framework, Arthur Zmijewski's work is
based solely on the image. His videos hover between documentary and fiction.
Zmijewski's Game of Tag (1999) sets up an impossible situation that examines
human nature at its most revealing and its most starkly vulnerable. His
filming in the loaded spaces of Holocaust atrocity avoids any hint of
nostalgia or direct reference to the historic tragedy. Rather, it reminds
us of the persistence of man's myriad inhumanities. Although filmed more
than five years ago, Game of Tag hauntingly foreshadows the disgraceful
situations recently revealed in the media.
- Norman Kleeblatt
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