Ever-changing exhibit: Emergency Room
WABC Eyewitness News
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5104707
(New York - WABC, March 8, 2007) - There's an ever-changing art exhibit on display in Queens, much like the news. It is literally replaced every 24 hours.
Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg has more on this art work.
It's not just one artist contributing to this project. It's two dozen and they are all bound by one rule that they create something that deals with the news of the day that Thierry agrees with.
Don't get too attached to anything you see on these walls because at 12:30 p.m. everyday, artists enter the circular gallery at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and get to work. They take down the art work that was hung before and replace it with their own new creations inspired by news of the past 24 hours.
"I found since I have been engaged in this project, I'm reading The Times, I'm looking at the BBC and I'm looking at the AP," artist Gail Rothschild said. "It's got to be a story that jumps out and bites me."
On Monday, Gail Rothschild was struck by bizarre die off of honeybee. The day before her piece was about Afghanistan's booming opium crop. She has created a different piece every day since exhibit opened early February.
The idea is Thierry Geoffroy's but is a recombination of a number of other peoples ideas. He calls it Emergency Room in part because he believes there are so many crises facing the world which artists can and should address.
"You can see things that other people cannot see," Thierry Geoffroy said. "So when you look at the newspaper and when you watch the news on TV, you can spot a lot of things that are strange to him."
Mac Premo has created short animations. It is about the diplomacy of North Korea visualized through the negotiation chairs. He and other artists agree the daily deadlines offer up a new sort of artistic challenge.
"It is good practice," an artist, Mac Premo, said. "It feels like good practice, conceptions."
"It was incredible opportunity to step aside from what I have been doing in my studio practice and to devote my self to this project," Gail Rothschild said.
The exhibit runs through March 19th. The best time to go is at about noon, so you can see yesterday's pieces replaced by the newest creations.
For more information visit:
www.ps1.org/emergencyroom
www.emergencyrooms.org
(Copyright 2007 WABC-TV)
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Executive Decision
Let us leave it in the hands of those who know. The Corporations and their lovely Board Room Leaders.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
How to capture a tank
, October 2006,Budapest.The power of numbers capture an exhibit T-34 tank.The angry mass wanted to break through the police blockade.Fortunately run out the petrol
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Mad with Power
It is true that our country seems to be run by swollen headed, crazed capitalist agenda seeking officials. It is too bad that it isn't more obvious to the general public. Take a look at all that is below this posting. Blows the mind. Perhaps the Government has too much time on there hands? Or maybe it is me or you?
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Day 1 - Documentation Photos
Show opens today. Here are a couple photos.
Some documentation photos from last night.
Worked on the piece from 930pm - 3:00am
Some documentation photos from last night.
Worked on the piece from 930pm - 3:00am
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
P.S.1 EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASEEMERGENCY ROOM
February 8 - March 19, 2007
(Long Island City, NY - December 15, 2006)
P.S.1 proudly presents Emergency Room, a constantly evolving collaborative exhibition conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel. To realize this project, Geoffroy has invited over thirty local and international artists to create and install new works in a range of media, all generated daily in response to current events. Emergency Room is on view in the third floor Archive Galleries from February 8 through March 19, 2007.
Emergency Room is motivated by a desire to learn what other artists think about current affairs from varied international perspectives under strict time constraints. By providing a physical space in which artists can display works made in reaction to current events, Emergency Room takes the pulse of the artistic community today. On each day of the exhibition, artists will install new work in response to the events of the last 24 hours, an arrangement that recalls daily news cycles. The artworks stay on view until the next morning whenthey are moved to an adjacent archive space and replaced by new work.
Emergency Room seeks to foster a sense of community among the participating artists and an atmosphere in which the gallery serves as a laboratory both for personal expression and formal experimentation. Artists will come with very different methodologies, from the politically charged to the personally intimate, to interact with a specific space and develop an on-going project together.
French-born Thierry Geoffroy (b. 1961) has presented his art internationally since 1995. Recently, he had solo exhibitions at Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; IKM Museum, Oslo, Norway; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; and Devron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 2006, Geoffroy presented Emergency Room at Galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin; and Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen. He received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from France in 2003. Geoffroy will present a project at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Emergency Room is organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.
Emergency Room @ PS1/MOMA
For immediate Release:
January 29th 2007
Emergency Room at PS1/MOMA - ER NYC
Feb 8 - March 19, 2007
Raphaele Shirley, Lee Wells, and Paul Middendorf exhibit new collaborative works and installations for Emergency Room at PS1 February 8th.
Everyday there are topics which seem ignored or under represented by the media, such as the war, genocide, global warming and more. It is important to keep finding clues and links which would reveal new evidences on the reality we are living in. It is important to seek and redefine what constitutes the news as it seems to the mainstream media is fairly myopic (using censorship through omission) about what is really going on around us. The emergency room group will be replicating the idea of a set format, as the news media have which will be the base structure, image, the pictorial context of expression. Working to generate an iconic image, logo and memorable framework, the images will be disfigured or added to on a daily basis, creating a log, a trail, of emergency events. Fragments of paper, written notes, video, and performance will unfold a picture for the public. The transient and fast paced environment coupled with the premise of the installation is a great opportunity to experience a new form of artistic expression, experimenting and focusing intensely on the moment and the current pulse of the world.
Raphaele, Lee, and Paul are artists who are specializing in political critique, public interventions and collaborations. The triangle created between these artists will generate a dialogue, a smoke signal path, and a critical exchange related to what constitutes the news and how this can be expressed within this context. Varying in mediums used, alternating freely between live video, internet, performance, painting, photography and installation according the needs of the moment we will document everyday, each day at PS1. Using the fabric of the city as our palette of expression and source of news, bringing back to Emergency Room fragments of urgency and emergency. Emergency Room is a constantly evolving collaborative exhibition conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel.
Emergency Room is motivated by a desire to learn what other artists think about current affairs from varied international perspectives under strict time constraints. By providing a physical space in which artists can display works made in reaction to current events, Emergency Room takes the pulse of the artistic community today. On each day of the exhibition, artists will install new work in response to the events of the last 24 hours, an arrangement that recalls daily news cycles. The artworks stay on view until the next morning when they are moved to an adjacent archive space and replaced by new work.
Emergency Room at PS1/MOMA - ER NYC February 8 - March 19
Please stay up to date for the daily changes of PS1’s Emergency Room.
or more information please email paul@galleryhomeland.org
Biographies
Paul Middendorf is living and working in Portland, Oregon as an artist and curator. In 2000 Paul received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began launching his career as a painter. Currently Paul works as Director and Founder of Gallery Homeland. He has shown nationally and internationally, and most recently produced and performed in Scratching the Surface in Portland Or, Lifeboat-Miami for Art Basel's International Art Fair, Lifeboat-Hamptons for The Scope Art Fair, and was co-curator for Waterways, an Istanbul Biennale project. Paul is still an active artists and curator working across the globe. www.galleryhomeland.org www.manifestartistry.com
Raphaele Shirley lives and works in NYC. She specializes in collaborative projects and Public Art installations and events. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in interventionist projects such as “Waterways” and “Two Continents and Beyond” in the Venice (2005) and Istanbul Biennales (2005) and has shown recently in the Art Basel Video Lounge curated by Michael Rush. She has co-created several experimental projects including PAM Perpetual Art Machine and The New York International Fringe Festival. She works in diverse mediums ranging from sculpture to photography, video and sound. www.raphaeleshirley.com
Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. He has been exhibited internationally for over 10 years, including the 51st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and most recently included in the Art Basel Miami Beach Video Lounge curated by Michael Rush. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, www.ifac-arts.org . He is co-founder of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. www.perpetualartmachine.com , Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs www.scope-art.com and site editor for www.rhizome.org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. www.newmuseum.org
Everyday there are topics which seem ignored or under represented by the media, such as the war, genocide, global warming and more. It is important to keep finding clues and links which would reveal new evidences on the reality we are living in. It is important to seek and redefine what constitutes the news as it seems to the mainstream media is fairly myopic (using censorship through omission) about what is really going on around us. The emergency room group will be replicating the idea of a set format, as the news media have which will be the base structure, image, the pictorial context of expression. Working to generate an iconic image, logo and memorable framework, the images will be disfigured or added to on a daily basis, creating a log, a trail, of emergency events. Fragments of paper, written notes, video, and performance will unfold a picture for the public. The transient and fast paced environment coupled with the premise of the installation is a great opportunity to experience a new form of artistic expression, experimenting and focusing intensely on the moment and the current pulse of the world.
Raphaele, Lee, and Paul are artists who are specializing in political critique, public interventions and collaborations. The triangle created between these artists will generate a dialogue, a smoke signal path, and a critical exchange related to what constitutes the news and how this can be expressed within this context. Varying in mediums used, alternating freely between live video, internet, performance, painting, photography and installation according the needs of the moment we will document everyday, each day at PS1. Using the fabric of the city as our palette of expression and source of news, bringing back to Emergency Room fragments of urgency and emergency. Emergency Room is a constantly evolving collaborative exhibition conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel.
Emergency Room is motivated by a desire to learn what other artists think about current affairs from varied international perspectives under strict time constraints. By providing a physical space in which artists can display works made in reaction to current events, Emergency Room takes the pulse of the artistic community today. On each day of the exhibition, artists will install new work in response to the events of the last 24 hours, an arrangement that recalls daily news cycles. The artworks stay on view until the next morning when they are moved to an adjacent archive space and replaced by new work.
Emergency Room at PS1/MOMA - ER NYC February 8 - March 19
Please stay up to date for the daily changes of PS1’s Emergency Room.
or more information please email paul@galleryhomeland.org
Biographies
Paul Middendorf is living and working in Portland, Oregon as an artist and curator. In 2000 Paul received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began launching his career as a painter. Currently Paul works as Director and Founder of Gallery Homeland. He has shown nationally and internationally, and most recently produced and performed in Scratching the Surface in Portland Or, Lifeboat-Miami for Art Basel's International Art Fair, Lifeboat-Hamptons for The Scope Art Fair, and was co-curator for Waterways, an Istanbul Biennale project. Paul is still an active artists and curator working across the globe. www.galleryhomeland.org www.manifestartistry.com
Raphaele Shirley lives and works in NYC. She specializes in collaborative projects and Public Art installations and events. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in interventionist projects such as “Waterways” and “Two Continents and Beyond” in the Venice (2005) and Istanbul Biennales (2005) and has shown recently in the Art Basel Video Lounge curated by Michael Rush. She has co-created several experimental projects including PAM Perpetual Art Machine and The New York International Fringe Festival. She works in diverse mediums ranging from sculpture to photography, video and sound. www.raphaeleshirley.com
Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. He has been exhibited internationally for over 10 years, including the 51st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and most recently included in the Art Basel Miami Beach Video Lounge curated by Michael Rush. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, www.ifac-arts.org . He is co-founder of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. www.perpetualartmachine.com , Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs www.scope-art.com and site editor for www.rhizome.org at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. www.newmuseum.org
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