Opening Reception: April 14th, 7-9pm
April 14th -30th

The title of this exhibition is the negative version of a previous project developed by Felipe at Open Source Gallery: One day this will all be yours. The continuity of this statement – and its supposed negativity – is intended as an exploration into the question of authorship and ownership and also as a critical joke towards the possible accomplishments of modernism. Being Open Source a community based gallery Felipe has decided to present a collaborative project which has been developed before in different spaces under different circumstances: Linea de hormigas is a sculpture-based project in which Mujica constructs – and in some cases asks other people to construct for him – modernist yet poor and ephemeral three- dimensional sculptures.

The pieces vary in shape, size and color yet they are always built using the same materials and procedure: thin wood beams are “colored” and attached to each other with electric insulation tape. Sometimes set up in exhibition spaces sometimes set up in homes or in public spaces such as parks, rooftops or party rooms, the sculptures aim to talk about the failure of modernism. This should be read against the history of modernism in Latin America, its aspiration of change and promise of a modern and more equal world… On the other hand Latin American modernism succeeded in the development of a new language, one that responded to specific conditions of its context, expanding its own work procedures from the pure formal into the socially engaged.

For the exhibition at Open Source Felipe has asked for the collaboration of Monika Wuhrer and Ferran Martín. Monika (and who ever she wants to include in the project) will construct, following basic guidelines, modernist-like sculptures to be placed in different locations around Open Source Gallery. Photos of these temporary sculptural actions will be taken and later exhibited. Ferran Martín will present a new base-platform piece for the display of Linea de hormigas. This functional piece relates to Granada, a project Ferran presented at Newman Popiashvili Gallery in October 2011, which consisted in the construction of a new wood floor with a burnt geometric pattern resembling a Moorish design of Alhambra. The inclusion of this platform piece is basically a search for a new encounter, between two different histories, uses and sensibilities of geometry… Hopefully these new encounters will release a new and unknown energy.

WELCOME TO THE OPENING OF BETWEEN MOUNTAIN, FRIDAY MARCH 23TH, 7 PM, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY
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MARCH 24- 31
OPENING, FRIDAY MARCH 23TH, 7 PM, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY
CLOSING PARTY: MARCH 31, 8 PM, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY

Between Mountain is a collaborative art project and workshop by the Norwegian artists Margrethe Aanestad, Else Leirvik, and Ole Martin Lund Bø, dancer Lene Aareskjold and musician Hai Nguyen Dinh (Next Life).

During the duration of March, 2012 in NYC the artists have created a dynamic body of work, both as individuals, as a group and with strangers, based on the overarching theme of personal / public space, particularly as it relates to cultural differences. During the last week of March, seven private residences in Manhattan and Brooklyn will host events, some public and some private, including artworks and performances. Open Source Gallery will host a group exhibition by Aanestad, Leirvik and Lund Bø.

The project is process-based and emphasis will be put on a post-released artist made publication that will document and reflect upon the project. The publication will be released in NYC and Norway September 2012.

Curators: Marte Jølbo, Nick Kline, Monika Wuhrer

For more information contact:
Marte Jølbo martejolbo@gmail.com +1 317-971-8861
Monika Wuhrer monika@opensourcegallery.org +1 646-279-3969

http://betweenmountain.tumblr.com

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(Man and woman enter. Man and woman stand still and look around for about two seconds.
Man and woman look at one another shortly before turning to look around again.)

Woman (Assertive)
No.

Man (Almost at the same time)
No.

(They leave)

(Man and woman enter. Man and woman stand still and look around.
The man takes of his cap and looks at woman. Woman waves and smiles at
someone further inside the room.)

Woman
I’m sorry, my ex – husband is here.
(Walks one meter forward. Man follows)
(Silence)
Do you think I can get away with just a wink and a smile?

Man
Not if we stay here, no. Not in this place. Too much space in too small a
room.
(Silence)
(Woman waves again)
You’re bound to have to greet him properly on your way to the
restroom.
(Man looks at woman and smiles friendly)
Did you get along?

Woman
(Lifts her eyebrow)
I guess we got along as long as we got along. Certainly not longer
though. He made me realize my mediocrity and I made him pay by being
exceptionally boring.

Man
Well, if that’s so… at least then in one way he made you exceptional.

Woman (Smiles at man)
Yes, you have no idea.
(Looks away)
Lets leave.
(Man puts on caps and they leave)

(Man and woman enter a new place. Man looks around. Woman looks
to the floor.)

Woman
Brave pair of sneakers you are wearing.
(Looks up.)
This is more like a very dirty tennis-court. Everyone would just watch
us.

Man (Nods to the left)
Not those two.

Woman (Looks shortly to the left)
Yes, they are the players now, but soon it’ll be us.

(Man and woman leaves slowly. Man and woman enter new space)

Woman
I think I told you I wanted to dance.

Man
My sneakers are ok.
(Man and woman look around)
You told me you did not really mind anything anymore.

Woman
True.

(Man and woman are dancing. Man does not know what to do with his cap.)

Man
I feel like I’m the dancer in the dark now.

(Silence)

Woman (Smiles slightly)
I feel more like I’m the dancer in the fart.

(Man sniffs and opens his eyes.)

Well, this smell certainly gives this room a whole new dimension

Man
It wasn’t me!
(Turns red)
(Woman looks at red man)
(Silence)

Woman
Actually it was me.
(They dance a little faster now).

http://betweenmountain.tumblr.com/

Host: Open Source Gallery

Visual artists: Ole Martin Lund Bø, Else Leirvik, Margrethe Aanestad

Performance artists: Lene Aareskjold, Hai Nguyen Dinh (Next Life)

Curators: Marte Jølbo, Nick Kline, Monika Wuhrer

The Project is partially funded by OCA

WEDNESDAY 28TH at Open Source Gallery,
NEXT LIFE AND LENE AARESKJOLD PERFORMING LIVE
8 PM
Free

29th & 30th
Site specific works and performances located in apartments in Manhattan.

THURSDAY 29th, 7-9 PM, Manhattan
Apartment 5:
WORKS by Ole Martin Lund Bø
PERFORMANCE by Lene Aareskjold
RSVP to martejolbo@gmail.com

FRIDAY 30th, 8 PM, Manhattan
Apartment 6:
WORKS by Margrethe Aanestad, Andrea Ray
RSVP to martejolbo@gmail.com

SATURDAY 31ST, 8 PM, Brooklyn
CLOSING PARTY
Open Source Gallery
8 PM till late

During the last week of March, seven private residences in Brooklyn and Manhattan will unveil artworks and performances made specifically for their site by Norweigan artists Margrethe Aanestad, Ole Martin Lund Bø, and Else Leirvik.

In addition Open Source Gallery, Park Slope, Brooklyn, will feature an exhibition of their work.

Musician Hai Nguyen Dinh (Next Life) and dancer Lene Aareskjold will perform at selected venues.

“Expanding upon his 2010 Streetsmart project in which he photographed his photorealistic architectural sets of decaying 70s era New York buildings on the streets of Park Slope using surreal compositional juxtapositions, Peter Feigenbaum’s Streetsmart II: XRO takes the exercise one step further into surrealism and psycho-geography.

Feigenbaum has since created a portable module that allows his sets of miniature abandoned buildings to be mounted atop the roof of a car. In late 2011, he scoured the rapidly gentrifying outer reaches of Bed-Stuy and Harlem to find the city’s last remaining derelict boarded up blocks(often marked with the Fire Departments “XRO” tag, signifying “roof out”).

After double parking on busy city streets and deploying the installation on the roof of his car, Feigenbaum acted quickly and decisively to take photographs that created a strong surreal compositional dialogue between the real life abandoned buildings in the background and the miniature sets in the foreground that mimic the reality behind them. While the images have parallels to hyper-real architectural renderings, the resulting scenes suggest anti-architectural interventions and a lust for urban entropy. Thus via Feigenbaum’s photographic interventions, the city’s few remaining derelict blocks become time warps into the feral, moody, ghost-world of decaying 1970s New York City that he has been obsessed with via his work”

at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Bushwick
1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, New York
(718) 387-2900 ‎

Karl Spörk: “Cinemascope,” 2000, C-Print photograph, 70″x39″ Photograph: Nick Kline

the-meeting.net

The Meeting is an event in honor of the life and work of the late Karl Spörk, who was an International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) resident in 2000, sponsored by bm:ukk, Austria. The Meeting, hosted by ISCP, includes an exhibition and panel discussion and is organized by artists Nick Kline and Monika Wuhrer.

The title of the exhibition is based on The Meeting, a work from 2000 by Spörk. This 63-second video is essentially a conversation between Spörk and the great Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Set in a darkened room, each sits in a separate chair with their back to the camera facing a television; the video depicts Spörk’s animation of Dürer’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 Dürer praises the artist on his manipulation by saying, “I like it” to which Spörk responds, “I am glad you like it, Albrecht.”

This exhibition brings together numerous international artists and curators reflecting the intensity of Karl Spörk’s life, especially as seen through his work.

ARTISTS
Margrethe Aanestaad, Lene Ask, Jane Benson, Songul Boyraz, Caterina Czepek, Tomas Eller, Gerald Freimuth, Andi Gut, Peter Holl, Christoph Girardet, Christopher Ho, Nick Kline, Else Leirvik, James Leonard, Michael Lobgesang, Ole Martin Lund Bo, Josh Mueller, Marcus Langender, Stefan Olah, Hans Schabus, Diana Shpungin, Karl Spork, Monika Wuhrer

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Dorothea Brunialti, Michael Jung, Gary Baldwin

CURATORS
Nick Kline & Monika Wuhrer

TEXT
Ute Meta Bauer, Andreas Stadler, Annette Sudbeck, Kristina Tieke

CATALOG: Schlebrugge, publisher (forthcoming)

SUPPORTERS: ISCP, Austrian Cultural Forum NY, bm:ukk, Steven and Nancy NYC, fotoK, Open Source Gallery, Der Kommissar

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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 invited 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.

“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.

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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.

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.

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

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