Project 35, a year-long series of contemporary artist videos, opens at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery
Part I of Project 35 opens at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery with a public reception on Thursday, February 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. An evening screening will also take place on Tuesday, April 6, at 7 p.m., followed by light refreshments.
Project 35 is an evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators, each of whom has chosen a work s/he considers vital for contemporary art audiences across the globe. 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 8 to 9 videos. Part I will be on view at Saint Joseph College Art Gallery through May 9, 2010.
The curators who chose works for Part I of Project 35have worked in countries as disparate as Egypt, Lithuania and Japan. The international perspective of this project is also reflected in the wide-ranging topics addressed by the videos. Protests in post-colonial Africa, the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, news broadcasts in China, and street crime in Bogotá are among the subjects explored. Also striking is the diversity of approaches to single-channel video in these works, including documentary, claymation, and digital animation. A recurring theme is the power of images and the role of the media in shaping collective experience.
Project 35 will be displayed simultaneously in multiple international venues. Saint Joseph College Art Gallery is not only among the first to host Project 35, but is currently the only venue in the northeast United States.
Project 35is 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 I of PROJECT 35
Guy Ben-Ner (Ramat Gan, Israel) currently lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was selected by Mai Abu ElDahab (Egypt/Belgium) who currently lives in Antwerp, Belgium, where she is the Director of Objectif Exhibitions.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Phù Nam Thuc Ha (both Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) currently live and work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. They were selected by Zoe Butt (Australia/Vietnam) who is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where she is the Curator and Director of San Art, an independent artist-run gallery space and reading room.
Zhou Xiaohu (Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China) graduated in 1989 with a degree in oil painting from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. He was selected by Lu Jie (China) who is currently based in Beijing, where he is the Chief Curator of the Long March Project, a complex, multiplatform, international arts organization and ongoing art project.
Yukihiro Taguchi (b. 1980, Osaka, Japan) currently lives and works in Berlin. He was selected by Mami Kataoka (Japan) who is currently the Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo as well as the International Associate Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London.
Kota Ezawa (US/Germany) currently lives and works in San Francisco. He was selected by Constance Lewallen (US) who is Adjunct Curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Robert Cauble (Hawai’i) currently lives and works in Chicago. He was selected by Raimundas Malasauskas (Lithuania/France) who is a writer and who was a curator-at-large of Artists Space, New York from 2007-08.
Edwin Sánchez (Colombia) currently lives and works in Bogota, Columbia. He was selected by José Roca (Colombia) who works out of Bogotá, Colombia and Philadelphia, where he is Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010.
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (US) lives and works in New York. She was selected by Franklin Sirmans (US) who is the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA, Los Angeles.
Dan Halter (Zimbabwe) currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He was selected by Kathryn Smith (South Africa) is an artist, scholar and independent curator who is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Fine Arts Studio Practice in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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.
