Part II of Project 35 Opens at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery
Part II is on view now through August 1;
The year-long series of contemporary artist videos runs through January 2011
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Part II of Project 35 recently opened at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery and will remain on view through August 1. In addition, an evening screening of all eight videos will take place on Wednesday, June 16, at 7:00 p.m., followed by light refreshments. Part II of Project 35 recently opened at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery and will remain on view through August 1. In addition, an evening screening of all eight videos will take place on Wednesday, June 16, at 7:00 p.m., followed by light refreshments. An exhibition of single-channel video works selected by 35 international curators, each of whom has chosen a single work, Project 35 |
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Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore). Episode 3,
Tang Da Wu – The Most |
will be displayed simultaneously in multiple international venues. Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is among the first to host Project 35 in its entirety. As curator Maria del Carmen Carrión points out, Project 35’s “extended distribution, concurrent presentation, and internationality” go “back to a basic principle that was core to video art at its initial appearance: broad access and circulation, which appear to have gotten lost as this medium became rarefied by the market.” It demonstrates the global reach that video has achieved as a medium of contemporary art. The exhibition will be presented in four parts, each featuring eight to nine videos.
Among the eight video works in Part II of Project 35, several involve the theme of art making. In Ho Tzu Nyen’s video we watch the making of a documentary about a famous performance by artist Da Wu Tang while the director and his assistant argue about the meaning of this “most radical gesture.” Andrea Büttner’s Little Works enters the private world of a closed order of Carmelite nuns in London to explore the impact of the small craft objects they create in their spare time. Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, in the Clay from Branst, present a clay-modeling studio inhabited by a group of people who seem unable to communicate through speech or through their sculptures.
Project 35 is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by grants from The Cowles Charitable Trust; Foundation for Contemporary Art; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Toby Fund; and iCI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, Jo Carole Lauder, and Barbara and John Robinson.
ARTISTS AND CURATORS IN Part II of PROJECT 35
Alexander Apóstol (b. 1969 Barquisimeto, Venezuela) divides his time between Caracas and Madrid. He was selected by Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela) who lives in Caracas, Venezuela, where she is the Director of the Sala Mendoza.
Sammy Baloji (b. 1978 Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) lives and works in Lubumbashi. He was selected by Bisi Silva (Nigeria/England) who is an independent curator who was the founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria.
Andrea Büttner (b. 1972, Stuttgart, Germany) lives and works in London and Frankfurt. She was selected by Chus Martinez (Galicia, Spain) who is currently chief curator at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and co-curator of the 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010).
Jos de Gruyter (b. 1966, Wilrijk, Belgium) and Harald Thys (b. 1965, Geel, Belgium) live and work in Brussels. They were selected by Anthony Huberman (Switzerland), a curator and writer based in New York.
Ranbir Kaleka (b. 1953, Punjab, India) lives and works in New Delhi, India. He was selected by
Deeksha Nath (India), an independent critic and curator based in New Delhi.
Daniela Paes Leão (b. 1974, Coimbra, Portugal) lives and works in Amsterdam. She was selected by Yane Calovski (Skopje, Macedonia) who is an artist and curator whose work has been exhibited internationally.
Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976, Singapore) lives and works in Singapore. He was selected by
Weng Choy Lee (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), a Singapore art critic and director of projects, research and publications at the Osage Art Foundation.
Stephen Sutcliffe (b. 1968, Glasgow, U.K.) lives and works in Glasgow. He was selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland) who is currently co-director of exhibitions and programs and director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
The Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is located in The Bruyette Athenaeum, part of The Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities. The Art Gallery presents regular exhibitions drawn from its permanent collections as well as loan exhibitions of historic art or of contemporary work by artists of national and international prominence.
The Art Gallery is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.; and Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.; closed Monday. Admission is free of charge.
