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Indepth Arts News:
"OF OTHER SPACES: Bureau for Open Culture"
2009-02-25 until 2009-04-25
Columbus College of Art and Design
Columbus, OH,
USA United States of America
BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE presents the exhibition Of Other Spaces. The exhibition will explore the origins and functions of social spaces and how they shape human behavior. Taking Michel Foucaults 1967 essay „Of Other Spaces‰ as a point of departure, the exhibition brings together a selection of works by 23 international artists whose practices examine the cultural authority embedded in spatial frameworks that act in service and in suppression of human activity. Participating artists: Robert Buck, Mary Jo Bole, Michael Brown, Alain Bublex, Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Candida Hoefer, Guillaume Leblon, Laura Lisbon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Laurent Montaron, Marylene Negro, TJ Norris with Scott Wayne Indiana, Sarah Schoenfeld, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Maya Schweizer, Suzanne Silver, Christian Tomaszewski, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane and Louise Wilson
Of Other Spaces will consider the power manifested in the histories, objects, former and current occupants, events, and bygone days associated with different kinds of social spaces. As such, works by participants reveal how places of everyday life control action, activate memory, provide insight and stimulate imagination in spaces founded and operated under the influence of deeply engrained socio-cultural circumstances.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Continuing his investigations of the intersections of filmic and architectural spaces, New York-based artist Christian Tomaszewski will produce a major, site-specific installation for Of Other Spaces. In residence in February, he will bring the cinematic space of a film, fragmented and distorted by memory, into the physical reality of a gallery.
British sisters Jane and Louise Wilson will participate with a loan of photographs from the series Erewhon, 2004. Taken in New Zealand, the images of vacated hospitals and defunct mining facilities recall New Zealands socially turbulent and dark history after World War I. The government enforced a rigorous system of physical regime on their female citizens as a response to extraordinary loss of male soldiers during the war.
French artist Alain Bublex examines experiences of contemporary urban settings, architecture and travel. With Untitled (TGV without Windows), 2006, Bublex explores temporal and spatial relationships in train travel. In this electronically operated TGV scale model train the windows are covered to propose a new form of travel that challenges relationships between space and time. In this work Bublex insists on experiencing distance without the familiar companion of seeing spatial movement through the landscape.
A publication will accompany the exhibition.
FILM SCREENINGS: WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 1871 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio
March 11, 2009 at 7 p.m.
As part of the exhibition Of Other Spaces, Bureau for Open Culture will present a screening of the three films She Might Belong to You, 2007, (37 min.) by Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Metropolis, Report from China, 2006, (42 min.) by Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer, and a new film by Laurent Montaron.
SPONSORSHIP for the exhibition provided by Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio Arts Council.
Generous support for exhibition research provided by Étant donnés: The French American Fund for Contemporary Art.
The exhibition and all associated events and screenings are FREE.
About BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE
Established in 2007, Bureau for Open Culture is a curatorial practice that transcends traditional notions of exhibition display. It is an initiative that uses the gallery as a site for presenting thematic exhibitions, bringing together works of art to further knowledge about relationships with one another and with general concepts. The bureau also expands the exhibition model to include off-site projects, workshops, screenings, informal talks, publications, and short-term residencies. It embraces experimental and open approaches of supporting artistic and curatorial trajectories that responds to a multidisciplinary contemporary culture. Taking a position somewhere between a gallery and an alternative space, the Bureau for Open Culture challenges traditional exhibition formats while respecting historical sources for those investigations. For more information about the bureau, visit www.bureauforopenculture.org
About COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
The mission of Columbus College of Art & Design, a private, four-year, degree-granting institution of higher education, is to prepare tomorrows creative leaders for professional careers. With a history of commitment to visual arts fundamentals and quality, CCAD advances a distinct, challenging, and inclusive learning culture that support individual development in art, design, and the humanities. Visit www.ccad.edu to learn more.
IMAGE
Sarah Schönfeld,
Wende Gelände #08, 2007
c-print
48 x 60 inches
courtesy of the artist and Kunstagenten, Berlin
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