Suds, sausage, shellac
Tuesday, January 24th: 8 until 11 PM.
Ethan Crenson, Open Source Collaborator (Founder of Fuse-Works) and Artist, will be playing 78 rpm records at the Der Kommissar, a small joint around the corner from Open Source and run by the same people who founded Open Source.
Der Kommissar offers a Brooklyn twist on an Austrian institution, the Würstelstand. Sausage stands in Vienna are far more than glorified hotdog carts, they are the nexus of food culture. Rather than taking their food to go, patrons tend to hang around, have a beer, and interact socially. Featuring a menu of artisanal Austrian-style sausages, eight draft beers, and an extensive selection of schnapps. Der Kommissar brings a little bit of Vienna to 5th Ave.
559 5th Ave, between 15th and 16th Street
South Slope, Brooklyn
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)
January 14th – Feb 8th, 2012
Opening Reception: January 14th, 7-9pm
Leigh Davis, detail from Foreclosed Storage Unit, 2009
“Now the truth of the matter – and one has no eye for that in times of great peril, and only by a great effort even in times when danger is threatening – is that in reality the burrow does provide a considerable degree of security, but by no means enough, for is one ever free from the anxieties inside it?” – Franz Kafka, The Burrow
Open Source Gallery is pleased to present The Burrow (H.H.), a new project from Brooklyn-based artist Leigh Davis. Working from photographs she took of an inhabited self-storage unit in New Mexico and using materials found in the surrounding neighborhood, Davis’s installation repurposes the gallery as a transitional living space, in which everyday artifacts of human existence take on different meaning when encountered in a place not designed for habitation. In constructing The Burrow (H.H.) specifically for the gallery, Davis engages her ongoing interest in creating projects in relation to the opportunities and constraints presented by the sites in which they are located.
The title of the project is taken from The Burrow, a Kafka story told from the perspective of a compulsive character who describes with pride the concealed burrow he has built to protect himself. As the character elaborates on the details, however, the description grows more paranoid and fantastical, and ultimately the narrator becomes trapped, possessed by his own creation. Davis’s project similarly creates a state of curiosity and uneasiness, in which viewers are invited–through the objects presented–to reconstruct for themselves the life lived by the person who is not there. But by restricting physical access to the space, the project relegates viewers to be voyeurs, from the outside, prompting them to consider their own relationship to the imagined life inside.
Evan Robarts and James Moore: the cave
February 11th – Feb 28th, 2012
Opening Reception: February 11th, 7-9pm
Even Robarts: from the series “popsicles”
Open Source is proud to present Evan Robarts and James Moore.
A collaborative installation opening on Saturday, February 11th, 2012.
Responding to their environment, Evan Robarts and James Moore will be presenting two site specific works intending to activate the space into a different dimension based on their work’s energies. Both artists work is characterized by formal and conceptual experimentation with material and a desire to transform thoughts into objects. An exchange and interplay of notions ranging from platonic ideals, semiology, biomimicry and nostalgia influence and infiltrate one another changing the original context of their individual pieces while its interplay creates a new understanding to the larger work as singular whole.
Evan Robarts’ work stems from an attraction to material and form as a means to capture the ideal and eternal. Reaching back to his childhood, he incorporates nostalgic memories, colors, and objects in his work. “Youth is central in my work, I relate very strongly to the evocative pull of the mysticism and unencumbered joy of childhood.” says Robarts about his work.
James Moore experiments with industrial objects that symbolically resemble organic matter, such as foam as tree sap, electrical circuits as a human nervous system, and modern, architectural spaces with life forms and bodily matter seeping from the cracks. “I often inject what I see as a mutating, extraterrestrial, and psychedelic life force into my work in order to resurrect or rebirth a space in contrast. ”
At Open Source Evan Robarts shows a variation of the series “popsicles”. He covers the concrete floor with (melted) popsicles. In juxtaposition to Evans nostalgic installation, James Moore will install a single light sculpture that leaks a primordial ooze out of the bulbs, reminiscent of the office light at one’s day job, or factory. As if it had a mysterious visitor channelling through it from another world.
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Installation on view
March 2nd- March 3rd
Performance
March 2nd, 8PM
Brooklyn-based artist, composer and musician Sara Bouchard returns to Open Source for a special combined performance and exhibition of her recently completed song cycle and series of works on paper “The News: Monday-Friday.”
The two parts of “The News” each consist of five songs that Sara wrote in five consecutive days. Each day, from Monday through Friday, Sara collaged lyrics from words and phrases cut out of that day’s newspaper and used her background in American roots music to interpret the corresponding melody and instrumental accompaniment. Sara carried out this rigorous exercise during a week in 2010 to create Part 1 and again in 2011 for Part 2.
Through this process, a modern American folk tale emerged. A community, uprooted from their homeland by a natural disaster, is forced to migrate into the unknown and adapt to their new surroundings. A kaleidescope of characters parade by: a mysterious religious leader, a haughty politician, a mourning mother, a stranger with bright ideas… It remains up to the listener/viewer to weave the pieces together, but an underlying concern emerges: how can we maintain a permanent home when the waters keep rising?
Sara will perform the songs on guitar, mandolin and autoharp amidst an exhibition of mixed media works on paper. The visual works are transcriptions of the songs in which collages of the lyrics are presented alongside Sara’s alternative system of musical notation, which she devised to emphasize visual patterns in the melodic line.
In addition to the debut of Part 1 of “The News” in 2010, Sara has exhibited and performed several times at Open Source, including her recent work “Songs of Lewis & Clark,” the group show “Associated” and the two-person show “Urban Plant Research.” “The News: Monday-Friday” was largely realized at the residency program chashama North in 2010 and 2011. Sara earned a B.A. in studio art from Yale University in 2003 and performs regularly in the Americana string band Union Street Preservation Society.
http://sarabouchard.bandcamp.com
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
March 8th – March 20th, 2012
Opening Reception: March 8th, 2012
“Karl Spörk, Another Meeting” is part of “The Meeting”, an exhibition in honor of the life and work of Karl Spörk at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, ISCP.
The name of the show is based on the late, Austrian, artist Karl Spörk’s work from 2000 titled “The Meeting.” This video lasts 63 seconds and is essentially a conversation between the artist (Karl) and the great Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer. Set in a darkened room each sits in a separate chair with their back to the camera facing a television, the video depicts Karl’s animation of Durer’s anatomical figure studies in which the arm moves to touch it’s own genitals. Reminiscent of a psychotherapy session there is a long period of silence until Albrecht praises the artist on his manipulation, Durer: “I like it” Spörk: “I am glad you like it, Albrecht.”
A lot of Karl Spörk’s work, his personality and his life as well as his death has captured us. Nick Kline and Monika Wuhrer are curating a show that brings together numerous international artists and curators reflecting the intensity of Karl Spörk’s life especially filtered through his artwork.
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting at Open Source will project the “hen and hare”, a video by Karl Spörk. Spörk’s father, a butcher by profession, instructs the artist how to slaughter animals. Monika Wuhrer calls for a podium discussion inviting butchers to explain their jobs from their point of view and talk about the perception of the profession within their family, their friends and the public.
Participating artists at the ISCP
Margrethe Aanestaad, Lene Ask , Jane Benson, Songul Boyraz, Caterina Czepek, Tomas Eller, Gerald Freimuth, Andi Gut, Peter Höll, Christoph Girardet, Christopher Ho , Nick Kline, Else Leirvik, James Leonard, Michael Lobgesang, Ole Martin Lund Bø , Josh Mueller, Marcus Langender, Stefan Olah, Hans Schabus, Diana Shpungin, Karl Spörk, Monika Wuhrer
Crators: Nick Kline & Monika Wuhrer
Text: Ute Meta Bauer, Andreas Stadler, Annette Sudbeck, Kristina Tieke
Catalog: Schlebrügge, publisher (forthcoming)
Sponsors:
bmuk, Austrian Cultural Forum, Steven and Nancy NYC, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Der Kommissar
on view now
Evan Robarts and James Moore: the caveFebruary 11th – Feb 28th, 2012 Opening Reception: February 11th, 7-9pm Even Robarts: from the series “popsicles” Open Source is proud to present Evan Robarts and James Moore. A collaborative installation opening on Saturday, February 11th, 2012. Responding to their environment, Evan Robarts and James Moore will be presenting two site specific works intending to [...]
upcoming
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Patrick Cadenhead
past
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2
Christian Brown: September 5 – October 1
Urban Plant Research: August 15 – August 30
Make Soap Box Racers! July 13th-August 8th
Hubert Dobler: June 6th – July 1st
Gary Baldwin: May 2nd – June 4th
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Scott Groeniger: March 27 – April 26
Sara Bouchard: April 4th, 8pm
MonsterBASH | July 4th – August 15th | Party July 4th 4-7pm
