Silver Ticket Project: Help Wanted
Saturday Nov 21st, 7-10pm
With unemployment numbers at 8.8% in New York City and topping 9% nationally, laid off workers are turning to their passions to find more meaningful work. Artist Erik Fabian wants to help, and luckily the Silver Ticket Project is hiring!
Join Erik Fabian, at the Open Space Gallery on Saturday, November 21st, from 7-10pm, for a performance constructed and delivered by fully paid labor. Erik asks the audience to consider the value of artistic labor in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis.
Erik Fabian is an artist working in performance, installation and conceptual art. For several years, in anticipation of the current economic crisis, Erik has been presenting work that explores notions of value; how we value art and the experience of performance; and how the perception of value changes during inflationary monetary periods. The Silver Ticket Project pair performances with simple commodities (like silver bullion) within marketplace environments in an attempt to establish a rational price for performance art. Erik is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Autotune the Art Object: October 24, 4-6pm
by Patrick May
Medusa digital c-print, 2009; download source (~198MB)
On Saturday October 24th, 4-6pm, Patrick May will present the processes and ideas behind his recent body of work “Portrait Photo Considered Harmful”. His recent work uses digital techniques weave together gestures of documentation, craftsmanship, selection, and narrative. These juxtaposed layers of authority expose each other, causing the final images to question the notion of the artist as an individual speaker.
In keeping with the notion that the artwork is in a state of constant collaboration, the full source files of the artworks have been released under a Creative Commons license at http://hexane.org. Any interested parties are invited to examine, re-use, or appropriate any materials or techniques from the exhibition.
May received a BS in Studio Art from New York University in 1999. His work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Berlin, including Maiden Brooklyn, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, and the Galerie Scherer 8. He currently works in Brooklyn, NY creating intimate portraits of his friends and family.
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Performance starts at 8.30pm (25min)
We will be serving Wine and Beer from 7-10
When Parts of You Are Still Arriving
Photo: Lisa Grave
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer will present a live performance of their current work-in-progress. Blending their two distinct, yet complimentary practices, this piece will be an inquiry into collaborative audio-visual and intertextual explorations.
With a background in narrative, relational, infiltrating, and visual performance, Stanton has lately been examining comprehensive states of “performative consciousness,” investing a “performative” presence within multiple spaces / times. Using video montages of taped public interpolations, within a live setting, she has been layering recorded and live performance to produce a composite presence – fractured, whole, congruent, in transition; at times obscured but nevertheless felt.
An emerging electro-acoustic composer and tape-deck performer, Richer combines analogue and digital technologies, building and deconstructing sound loops for audio recordings and live presentations. With field recordings from both urban and rural settings, he takes the seemingly mundane and transforms it into architecturally responsive, multi-textured environments, creating atmospheric (and at times unsettling) spaces with, and through, sound.
http://www.bankofvictoria.com
http://www.myspace.com/elementkuuda
Dean Moss
Oct 10th, 11am
The video will be also projected on the Gallery Window visible from the outside
Oct 9th and 10th, 8-11pm
As an artist working in both dance and video, I use the irrational logic of the body to articulate personal, cultural, and socioeconomic, forces that impact our perception of self and environment. Physically demanding, dense and visual, the resulting works reflect not only a desire to participate rigorously in the world of ideas, but also an interest in twinning a variety of forms and metaphors into visceral immersive performance experience.
URBAN PLANT RESEARCH EVENTS
Week One
- Saturday August 15, 7-10pm: Opening
- Sunday August 16, 1-5pm: Local herb tea on the stoop; 5pm: Field trip to the Waterpod, a “floating green home” currently docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park (departs from gallery at 5pm)
Week Two
- Saturday August 22, 6pm: A Walk Around the Block, an urban nature walk led by the artists, followed by a happy hour featuring local mint mojitos
Week Three
- Thursday August 27, 6pm: Visit to 6/15 Green, a nearby community garden (departs from gallery at 6pm)
- Friday August 28, 3-5pm: Activities for kids
- Sunday August 30, 1-5pm: Acoustic Jam for the Plants, a jam open to all levels and genres of musicians. Bring your acoustic instrument and join in, or just bring along your houseplant and listen!
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Joseph Krings: All Aboard Future
All Aboard Future is a series of 8 silent short films shot on black and white Super 8 film which reflect a variety of humorous viewpoints about the future of mankind. All characters are played by the filmmaker.
I’m In You
The brooklyn based indie band “I’m in you” will play a 45 min set using Hubert Dobler’s “3 priseners” as their stage.
check out their myspace site for more:
http://www.myspace.com/iminyou
Second Saturday Potluck Dinner
Saturday May 9th, 7pm – 10pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 9th, for an addendum to the current photogaphy exhibition at open source gallery, Are We Not Famous Men?. Food at this potluck dinner will be provided by the artist and the subjects in the photographs on view. This event is free of charge and open to the public.
ALSO: UPRISING #17: Site specific interactive performance directed by Nicole Garneau
http://www.nicolegarneau.com/UPRISING.html
Sara Bouchard: April 4th, 8pm
Songs of Lewis & Clark
Singer/songwriter Sara Bouchard’s “Songs of Lewis & Clark” is a song cycle setting the journals of Lewis and Clark to music. The songs reveal moments of awe, reflection, humor and joy during the course of the American expedition of 1804-1806. The album, released in November 2008, features Sara’s lyrical vocals and subtle, unique style of fingerpicking on guitar and mandolin.
The concept of “Songs of Lewis & Clark,” with its lyrics taken directly from the journals, arose from an investigation into American myth, history and roots music. Sara was inspired by the literary strength of the journals:
“As I began reading the journals, particular passages began to jump off the page – the language was so much like poetry to me. I began to sing them into songs, songs influenced by all kinds of American music, especially folk, blues, spirituals, and rock and roll. I’ve let the words inform the melody and song structure, and I’ve kept the instrumentation spare. As a result, the songs don’t really adhere to a genre; they are, simply, songs.”
Born in Stockton, California, Sara left the west coast to attend college at Yale University where she studied art and music composition and received her bachelor’s degree in studio art in 2003.
http://www.myspace.com/sarabouchardmusic
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Patrick Cadenhead: Spring and RenewalOpening Reception: May 5th, 2012, 7-9pm May 6th – June 3rd With Spring and Renewal, artist Patrick Cadenhead seeks to create a multi-sensory meditation on religion, laundry, and our denial of decay. Large sculptures caked in common cleaning products make up this installation, as active fountains push water and soap over and through, constantly changing [...]
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MS 136
Koko
eL Paper
riepl & co marianas trench discoveries inc
Nick Kline
Kathleen Vance
Michael Poetschko
past
Felipe Mujica: One day this will NOT be yours
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Between Mountain – part 2
Peter Feigenbaum
The Meeting
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)
Evan Robarts and James Moore: the cave
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Green Idea Pool
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
