hi, this is what i'm going to tonight. logan's picking me up at work at 6. wanna join? sounds like something you could bring another dimension too...
-a bo
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From: david bench <sirbench@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 18, 2008 9:33 AM
Subject: check out my performance this friday at PS122
To: amy bench <amybench@gmail.com>
This Friday at 7pm I will be performing a piece based on the persona
of Barack Obama. It's called 'Meet Barack.'
It should be interesting. Refreshments will be served. Details below
with full schedule attached.
"The Audacity of Desperation"
Presented by PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122
150 1st Avenue, enter on 1st Avenue, take stairs to second floor
June 19 June 22, 2008
DEMO Space 122 is pleased to present the NYC stop of "The Audacity of
Desperation," a 3-day nomadic exhibition of take-away projects
(initiated and curated by Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross and organized
by Steven Lam) in conjunction with a series of performances and
workshops responding to the spin of the upcoming election.
TAKE-AWAYS:
Artworks by activists, artists, enthusiasts and very concerned people
are made in unlimited editions to be freely distributed. These
artworks function as counter-propaganda. Like a virus, they are
activated outside the exhibition context, in domestic and public
spaces, on bodies, clothes, bags... This collection of take-away
posters, manifestos, DIY kits, postcards, stickers, buttons and
multi-media projects will travel throughout the country, creating a
space to build relationships and foster dialogue around the desperate
state of affairs resulting from a calamitous administration,
complacent congressional leaders and a disempowered citizenry.
MODES OF ENCOUNTER:
In parallel to the take-away work on display, the exhibition will be
structured as a succession of modes of encounter orchestrated by
interested volunteers. Utilizing the exhibition parameters as a site
of social experimentation, this open-ended program of conversations,
workshops and performances will solicit the active and reciprocal
participations of visitor and artist alike, thereby inviting
reflection on how communities become connected, alliances selected,
coalitions established. Those interested in participating for one of
the remaining empty slots are encouraged to email
DEMOspacedirector@verizon.net for more information.
PARTICIPANTS:
Avi Alpert, Katja Aglert, Alas (Randy Wallace & Rae Culbert), Eric
Anglès, Shinsuke Aso, Steve Ausbury, Mark Bechtel, David Bench,
Lindsay Benedict, Mary Billyou, Jody Buchman, Center for Urban
Pedagogy, Coco Rico, Heidi Cunningham, Solidad Decosta, DJ Lightbolt,
Feel Tank Chicago, Andrea Domesle, Von Edwards, Sarah Ferguson, Dara
Greenwald & Steve Lambert & Josh MacPhee & the Anti Advertising
Agency, Benj Gerdes, Patrick Grenier, Tamar Guimaraes, Sarah Kanouse &
Tianna Kennedy & Lee Azzerello, Caroline Kelley, Scott Kiernan,
Rosamond S. King, Anné M. Klint, The League of Imaginary Scientists,
Norene Leddy with Ed Bringas, Erin Ming Lee, Let's Re-Make, Runo
Lagomarsino, Ilya Lipkin, Lizabeth Douglas Minkler, Carlos Motta,
Huong Ngo, elin o'Hara slavick, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Sheila Pinkel,
Jenny Polak, Nancy Popp, Jeremy Eilers & Davis Rhodes & Nic Xedro,
Anthony Rayson, John Richey, Eva Rossof, Stephanie Rothenberg, Edward
Schexnayder, Dorothy Schultz, Heath Schultz & Brad Thomson, Robert
Samel Snyderman, Gordon Winiemko, Carrie Yury, Xtine, among others
Refer to
http://desperationexhibition.blogspot.com/ for more
information about the national tour.
DEMO Space 122 will officially open in 2009. A parallel exhibition
space to the PS122 Art Gallery, DEMO Space 122 (located on the 2nd
floor) is a not-for-profit organization that catalyzes new futures for
contemporary artistic production with programs that utilize the
intimate and participatory setting of a former classroom as a site for
inquiry and process. Envisioned to be a laboratory for community
participation, DEMO Space 122 seeks to further the mission of PS 122
Art Gallery by providing cross cultural dialog and a venue for art
exhibitions and social activism.