From lizo.jay at gmail.com Sat May 2 12:35:54 2009 From: lizo.jay at gmail.com (jay lizo) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 12:35:54 -0400 Subject: Monte Vista Projects presents Amass Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE amass Montevista Projects May 9 ? June 10, 2009 Brandon Anschultz (St. Louis) Sarah Baker (London) Fantastic Nobodies (Brooklyn) Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (London) Robert Goetz (St. Louis) Wendy Mason (Los Angeles) Erick Michaud (Austin) Brandon Morse (Washington D.C.) John Watson (St. Louis) Curated by Dana Turkovic Amass is an exhibition with multiple intentions and various definitions. First realized at Boots Contemporary Art in St. Louis, the exhibition?s second incarnation will respond directly to the space and mission of Monte Vista Projects but will also maintain its original curatorial premise. The title is a reference in its most direct translation a metaphor for curating an exhibition; to gather artwork, to assemble ideas, to group, and to collect. The exhibition at Monte Vista Projects will bring together new video work from a selection of national and international artists. Under this headline, Amass is also blurring the boundaries between, art, design, and information by questioning the conventional configurations of how we view video art. By commissioning two artists to design ?sculptural support? that invites, and in some ways, compels the audience to assemble and come together as viewers, the exhibition will aim to provide a series of smaller encounters within one collective social experience, thereby highlighting the existence of a 'closed temporal loop' between creation, interpretation and reception. This approach touches on Nicolas Bourriaud?s observations on what he coined ?relational art?: ?the audience is envisaged as a community. Rather than the artwork being an encounter between a viewer and an object, relational art produces inter-subjective encounters. Through these encounters, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption.? These experimental display interventions also set up a system for response and conversation within the work, providing a complimentary transference between the space, the curator, the artists, and ultimately the viewer to develop through a sustained professional critique. By tweaking the dynamic, the challenge of this installation will aim to illustrate the possibility of complex associations that come together in one space, where video art and display connect, ultimately pinpointing and exploiting the meeting place between these art forms, the gallery space as social environment and collective spectatorship. Monte Vista is located at 5442 Monte Vista Street, LA, CA 90042. Hours 12-5pm Saturday-Sunday and by appointment. http://montevistaprojects.com info at montevistaprojects.com -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: amasspressrelease.zip Type: application/zip Size: 169105 bytes Desc: not available Url : From info at montevistaprojects.com Wed May 20 18:54:34 2009 From: info at montevistaprojects.com (Monte Vista) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Closing date correction for amass Message-ID: <53361.149.142.130.227.1242860074.squirrel@webmail11.pair.com> Hi Friends, It's been brought to our attention that we listed the wrong closing date for amass. The correct dates are: amass May 9 ? June 6, 2009 (not June 10 as previously listed). We apologize for the error, and hope you can make it by if you haven't seen the exhibition already. -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: