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.

On April 28th Open Source will have a HUGE STOOP SALE (garage sale) as a fundraising event. We will sell second hand items as well as objects made as art.
Please help us mobilize friends and neighbors to join us for a stoop sale and bring any donation of items and art to Open Source.

THE MORE THE BETTER:
Please join us in stoop saling. Let’s make this a block wide event.

Ethan Crenson, Open Source Collaborator and Artist, will be playing 78 rpm records at the [Der Kommissar](http://derkommissar.net), a small joint around the corner from Open Source and run by the same people who founded Open Source.

Der Kommissar is at 559 5th Avenue between 15th and 16th Street.

Chair of the board: Conrad Lower
Conrad Lower is a lawyer who currently works with the Worker’s Compensation Board. He has been an ardent fan of Open Source since it’s inception and will be especially working on fundraising.

Secretary: Michelle Jaslow
Michele Jaslow is principal curator at Radar Curatorial, an arts curatorial team based in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to working with artists, museums, galleries, arts institutions, corporations, and private clients to help meet their exhibition needs. Michele has curated for the Exploratorium Museum, Cranbrook Museum, the Museum of Television & Radio, Brooklyn Artists Gym Gallery and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She has served on the boards of the Volunteer Coders For The Arts, The BAG Fund, the Park Slope Afterschool Center and Open Source Gallery. Michele holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from SUNY Purchase. She studied Interactive Multimedia Technologies at New York University, Drawing at the Arts Students League and Applied Physics at the University of California San Francisco.

Treasurer: Charlotte Mendelaar
Charlotte Mendelaar has been working in New York as a consultant and business coach since 2008. Prior to that she has worked as a database application consultant with many not-for-profits nationally, and as an accounting software consultant for small businesses in the metropolitan area. Since 2008 she has been studying Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) to use as a tool in her consulting work and she has completed the Master Practitioner class at the NLP Training Institute in New York. She is interested in how organizations can change realistically and responsibly, how staff can be motivated to change with the organization and how organizations can grow in an organic and sustainable way. She is very excited to work with Open Source and has been working with Monika Wuhrer on organization and growth.

MEMBERS
Lily White
Lily White is a jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. She has also been a huge fan of Open Source since its inception. She is currently working towards a Masters in Non-Fiction writing and uses her writing skills to help out with the website, press releases and grant writing. She is married to Conrad Lower, the chair of the Open Source Board and they live in Brooklyn with their daughter Jolene.

Nick Kline
Nick Kline lives and works in New York. He has exhibited his photographs in solo exhibitions at Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany, and others. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Project Room Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; and Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague as part of the 2012 “International Meeting of Photography,” Gaspésie, Canada. Group exhibitions include venues: Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Hirschl Contemporary Art, London, England, Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Reviews of his work include: The New York Times; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Lift Magazine; Time-Out NY; Lapiz Magazine; and others. Kline was awarded a grant from Foundation for Contemporary Art, NYC, in 2011. His work has been featured in numerous publications including Frankfurter Rundschaue Magazine, Phototecknik Magazine and Performance Research Journal. Nick received an MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and BFA, University of the Arts. Kline is an Assistant Professor, Photography, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University-Newark.

Lorna Clark
Lorna Clark is a practicing artist and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently completing her MA degree in the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University and will be graduation in 2012. Lorna is a student teacher at The Children’s School and previously at The Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies. She has taught Photography and Photoshop in the after-school program at The Children’s School and was a Photography Instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Lorna received an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA in Communication, Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been a Contributing Artist and Digital Retoucher at Vanity Fair Magazine since 2002.

Sheryll Durrant
Sheryll Durrant has always been involved with the arts and is married to an artist. She has worked in marketing for a number of years but quit to do the things she loves to do and to be more involved with art, sustainability and alternative education. She is interested in the fundraising aspect of organizations and offers her marketing expertise to the Open Source Gallery. Besides her Open Source commitment, Sheryll is heavily involved in Sustainable Flatbush and the Democratic Free School of Brooklyn.

Kate Harwood
Kate Harwood is the principal owner of Kate Harwood Design, a design and architecture firm in Brooklyn. After a long career as a graphic designer and involvement in the art scene in the East Village in the 80’s and 90’s, she received a degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is passionate about design and art and is interested in helping out with numerous aspects of Open Source.

Gesa Kudlack
Gesa Kudlack received her Masters in Arts Administration and business degree in Germany and has lived and worked internationally for almost 20 years – as an artist, producer, co-producer, host and contributing writer in music, media and theatre.
Among her work she produced and co-hosted short-films and TV documentaries, worked with Alte Oper Frankfurt, Goettingen Symphonic Orchestra, Jazz festivals in Great Britain and Music Schools in the Republic of Maldives. In Educational Outreach she worked on international exhibits for the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum and co-founded the subordinated Children’s Art Museum.
In 2000 she left her position as the Executive Director for State Youth Orchestra Nds., Germany, to move to New York. She has since worked as Production Associate for EOS Orchestra, founded Woodenbike.us, is the North America Representative for Holz-Hoerz, GmbH, and is holding the position as Radio Production Assistant for the Metropolitan Opera. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn.

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

download calendar

(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”

Summer Camp for kids age 7-15
Week 1: July 9-13 (Ages 7-12)
Week 2: July 16-20 (Ages 7-12)
Week 3: July 23-27 (Ages 7-12)
Week 4: July 30-August 3 (Ages 7-12)
Week 5: August 6- 10 (Ages 10-15)
Week 6: August 13-17 (Ages 10-15)

From 9am through 1pm (until 3pm $10)

Download the soapbox_form_2012 here – but please email for availability first

Children aged 7-15 are learning to construct functional soap box racers out of recycled material. The workshop has had rave reviews over the past 3 years: [Brooklyn Independent Television, Daily News (2-page spread!!!), Popular Mechanics, Park Slope Courier, Brooklyn Paper, among others].

Soap box Derby: August 18th, 2012
Kids: 12 Noon, Adults: 1 pm
17th Street between 5th and 6th Ave, South Slope
Everybody is welcome to participate!

We will introduce the campers to a variety of tools and supervise them closely while they build their contraptions with hammers, nails, handsaws, screws, etc. ALL TOOL USE UNDER STRICT ADULT SUPERVISION. We will encourage the kids to plan on paper, sketch images, make drawings of their invention, and think out of the box. We will also spend time outside, collecting found objects and materials, and testing our designs at each stage. We will also take breaks to play ball and have free play at the park/playground: (the time spent will depend on the different kids and their needs).

We have access to an outdoor space with a slight incline one half block away that we will be using in addition to the Gallery. This will serve as the perfect test track for our soap boxes in their different building stages. The culmination of the camp will be the 3rd annual 17th street soap box derby.

Download the registration form below:
Soap Box Registration Form 2012.

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

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

the-meeting.net