Short-Term Deviation
September 23—October 23, 2010
Curated by Jie Liang Lin, Exhibition, Jesse Hlebo, Print Series and Zine Library
Artists
Catharine Ahearn
David Berezin
Grayson Cox
Charles Harlan
Steve Lambert
Francisco Marciel
Nadja Verena Marcin
George Pfau
Poster Company
Chris Rice
Borna Sammak
Special four-part print series of Showpaper featuring new work from: Borden Capalino, Katja Mater, Arthur Ou, and Grant Willing.
EFA Project Space announces Short-Term Deviation. Beginning mid-September, this collaboration with the print publication Showpaper, is a month-long exhibition, publication, video and music event. Bringing the spirit of Showpaper—which crossbreeds music, art and D.I.Y. culture—to full incarnation, the gallery space will be transformed into a combination artist-crafted performance space, zine library, and video screening room.
In conjunction with Short-Term Deviation, Showpaper will run a four-part print series featuring new work from Grant Willing, Katja Mater, Arthur Ou, and Borden Capalino. With musical notation in mind as metaphorical framework, the artists were asked to respond to photos of the empty EFA Project Space—allowing these to serve as the initial ‘notation.’ Each issue is printed monochromatically in one of the four standard offset printing colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black), in homage to the composition of the printed object.
Dividing EFA Project Space into two distinct rooms, the varied installations in the performance venue and the library/screening rooms explore concepts of the material and immaterial through tone and ambiance, and to pose interventions. Events scheduled every Thursday consist of video screenings and musical and artistic performances that play with the concepts of structure and noise. In the performance space, Nadja Marcin creates a mobile installation to provide the framework for other performances in addition to her own, which involves ventriloquism and an exploration of the “Four Poles of Assumed Truths.”
Travess Smalley and Max Pitegoff present new work based on their collaborative work as Poster Company. Borna Sammak creates an installation for a new video landscape pieced together from captured footage. Catharine Ahearn fabricates a light-piece consisting of treated and layered found coupons.
The zine library/screening room will feature, "Fans", a dual-fan installation by Charles Harlan; “Hot Tubs”, an interactive silk-screened floor-piece by Grayson Cox; and projected video installations by George Pfau and David Berezin. The screening program will feature works culled from the genres of sci-fi, horror, and street intervention, rendering psychological spaces of stylistic and behavioral deviation. Videos include works by John Bock, Ulu Braun,, Circular File (Josh Kline and Allison Viera), Emerson Greenesmith, Grace Sungeun Kim, Andres Laracuente, Dafna Maimon and Liz Magic Laser, Nadja Marcin, David Matorin, Sharsten Plenge, Jeff Sisson and Jivko Darakchiev, Hayley Silverman, Jessie Stead, Anicka Yi, Nick Zeig-Owens, and more. The zine library will feature a mixture of thirty commissioned and pre-existing artists books and publications: The Holster, Medium Rare, Alana Celii, JSBJ, _Quarterly, David Potes and many more to be announced.
MATERIALS
EVENTS
September 23, 6-10 PM
Opening Reception
September 30, 6-10 PM
Performances & Film Screenings by White Suns, and Guardian Alien
October 7, 6-10 PM
Performances & Film Screenings by DubbKnowDubb and Fuckton
October 14, 6-10 PM
Performances & Film Screenings by Silk Flowers, CNTRL TOP, and Alaskas
October 16, 12-6 PM
Performances by The Holster with Bryan Graf
October 21, 6-10 PM
Closing Reception with Performances & Film Screenings
Performances from Chat Logs, Prince Rama, and “Killing the Fathers” a performance by Nadja Marcin
Film Screenings:
“Nonsighted” & “Light on Light, the Film” by Andres Laracuente
