Here and Elsewhere attempts to answer the question: What should be challenged about the categories “landscape,” “geography,” and “location?”
Featuring six young artists from Chicago, and in correspondence with the Artist in the Marketplace participants at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, this exhibition comes to Boots Contemporary Art Space to chart a new terrain. How are we defined by our environment, location, and geographical boundaries? How do we experience ourselves within an understanding of these concepts? How do we experience others? As the problems of globalization and “identity politics” recapitulate themselves in our current moment, subjectivity takes on a spatial dimension. Our world is defined by our borders, our buildings, and our expanding horizon line, while we are asked to locate ourselves within it.
Participating artists: Clint Bargers • Julia Doran • Carter Lashley • Tim Ridlen • Harley David Young • Daniel Zaretsky
Video flatfiles from the Artist in the Marketplace participants: Franny Allié • David Politzer • Megan Michalak • Hiroyuki Nakamura
Video Screenings Admission is five dollars at the door. All screenings at 8:30pm
Co-curated by Tim Ridlen, Ian Morrison, and Alexander Stewart. Projected in the backyard of Boots, these video programs draw from artists all over the world, and address similar questions of location, geography, and landscape. At right: still from Elements by Dariusz Kowalski
July 14 - Landscaping Curated by Alexander Stewart The first program includes a selection of short videos that deal with representation of northern landscapes. Huong Ngo, Dariusz Kowalski, Bill Brown, Andy Roche, and Inger Lise Hansen
July 18 - Nearby Curated by Tim Ridlen This program takes its theme from the impossible task of observing from afar, and speaking nearby. Displacement, transition, and relative location reoccur in the works of Isil Egrikavuk, Irina Botea, and Cayetano Ferrer, among others.
July 20 - What Remains Curated by Ian Morrison Working with a wide array of pre-existing material from family archives, war newsreels, amateur footage and industrial films, these artists attempt to grasp historical transformations with minimal means. Featuring Hatice Guleryuz, Gintaras Makarevicius, and Soon-Mi Yoo.
