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Subject: 1:100 EXHIBITION AT DCKT CONTEMPORARY
From: "alex villar" <villar@de-tour.org>
Date: Mon, June 28, 2004 6:51 am
To: "alex villar" <villar@de-tour.org>
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1:100 EXHIBITION AT DCKT CONTEMPORARY
From July 1 to August 27, 2004
Opening Reception: July 01, 6-8 pm

CURATED BY
Glowlab

ARTISTS
Corin Hewitt
Shih-Chieh Huang
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Kanarinka
Mario M. Muller
ON/Megumi Akiyoshi
Christina Ray
Swoon
Alex Villar
Lee Walton

DCKT CONTEMPORARY
537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea Hours
are 10am to 5pm, Monday - Friday. tel: 212.741-9955
For further information, please visit glowlab.blogs.com/1_100/ or
contact Dennis Christie or Ken Tyburski at the gallery.

EXHIBITION
DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present 1:100, curated by Glowlab,
in which 1 foot of interior space is equivalent to 100 feet of the
city. By enlarging the gallery floor plan and placing it over a map
of the surrounding neighborhood, Glowlab transforms the gallery
space into a three-dimensional map of the area. According to this
hybrid map: Chelsea Waterside Park is located at the gallery's main
entrance, the High Line elevated railway travels north through
Gallery 1, and, in Gallery 2, Madison Square Garden is located near
the east wall and the General Post Office is in the center of the
room. Each artist has selected a section of the gallery /
neighborhood and created new work in response to his or her chosen
location.

By focusing the viewer's awareness on the surrounding urban
landscape, each artist creates a link between the interior space of
the gallery and the exterior space of the city. Several artists work
with locally gathered materials. Shih-Chieh Huang creates a
sculptural installation of plastic containers, relay circuits and
microcontrollers, all found or purchased at dollar stores, pet shops
and hardware stores in the neighborhood. Corin Hewitt uses the dirt
swept from a local street corner to cast his sculpture of a
discarded plastic trash bag. Embedded in the dirt and resin are
discarded materials and refuse, turning the idea of the receptacle
inside out. Paul Ramirez Jonas scours the neighborhood for stray
bricks, bringing them into the gallery and building a section of
brick wall. Although dividing or supporting nothing in particular,
the unused bricks are given an optimistic second life as work of
art. Mario M. Muller's ink on paper works correspond to the four
cardinal points and are placed accordingly within the gallery. These
"urban canyons" offer long views of the light and architecture
extending beyond the confines of the neighborhood map.

Other artists' works invite direct interaction with the streets
immediately surrounding the gallery. kanarinka provides the means to
investigate "infinitely small things" in the area and record them as
part of a larger work. In addition to a documentary installation,
she offers two group expeditions during the course of the show.
Street artist Swoon adds peep-holes throughout the neighborhood,
through which one sees fictitious scenes that could be occurring
behind that very wall. These miniature images are reproduced as
three-dimensional works in the gallery. Christina Ray offers a guide
to navigating the city by the patterns and locations of its brightly
colored corner news-boxes. A printed guide will be available in the
gallery and distributed in neighborhood news-boxes throughout the
summer, and a walking tour using the guide will take place on the
final day of the exhibition. Ray also presents a series of small
drawings based on her walks.

Attention to street fixtures and other objects that help and hinder
our passage through the city is also evident in a number of
performance works. Alex Villar's depiction of an absurd way of using
a curbside mailbox disrupts the solemnity of the James A Farley
Station (8th Avenue between 32nd & 33rd Streets) that appears as the
background for his intervention. ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, dressed in her
signature "ON Gallery" attire, wheels a gumball machine throughout
the neighborhood as a mobile gallery, allowing customers to purchase
the small works of art inside to wear while walking through the
Chelsea art district. The gumball machine and video documentation of
her performance will be shown in the gallery. Lee Walton's
performance, documented as a video work, is a series of scripted
actions selected and enacted on a specific street corner in
combinations chosen by the other artists in the exhibition. As an
extension of this piece, Walton offers a real time performative
piece in which he will dribble a basketball up and down 36th Street
every morning of the exhibition.

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Glowlab is a Brooklyn-based arts lab dedicated to the production,
documentation and presentation of multi-media work in
psychogeography and public-space arts. They produce events and
lectures, organize collaborative projects and exhibitions, and
maintain an online lab at www.glowlab.com. Psychogeography is an
open and highly experimental discipline concerned with the ways in
which the geographic environment affects emotions and behavior.
Approaches to psychogeography vary, and include artistic, political,
philosophical and scientific work in fields ranging from archaeology
and cartography to programming, performance and street art. Glowlab
aims to bring together these diverse perspectives and engage in
dialogue on the methods and practice of psychogeography.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS
Friday, July 23, 7PM, and Friday, August 20, 7PM
Infinitely Small Things expeditions with kanarinka (meet outside
DCKT Contemporary)

Friday, August 27, 7PM
NewsBoxWalk with Glowlab (meet outside DCKT Contemporary)

July 01 - August 27, 7-8AM
Performance by Lee Walton, 36th Street between 7th and 9th Avenues

CREDITS
Maps by Red Maps
Exhibition concept, curation and website by Glowlab