Opening reception Thursday, April 17, 6:30-8:30pm, exhibit April 17-July 12
The graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA will present its thesis exhibition, Many Places at Once, April 17 through July 12, 2014, at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 17, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Decades after the "post-studio" turn announced by Minimalism and Conceptual art in the 1960s, Many Places at Once reconsiders the place of artistic production in our era of creative industries and flexible labor. Featuring new commissions and existing works by seven international artists, the exhibition presents artworks that call attention to the nuanced circumstances that characterize the economic, social, and technological conditions in which artists work today.
The exhibition departs from the performance entitled At Work 1983 by the Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace (b. 1943, Shoreham, England), in which the artist presented himself in the window of the artist-run Or Gallery in Vancouver, late at night, seated behind a simple desk, engaged in reading, thinking, and drawing. Staging himself before the city's nightlife as an intellectual worker rather than a paint-spattered bohemian, Wallace embraced the new nature of art as thought over making, while reflecting on his new identity with tongue firmly in cheek. Many Places at Once includes a video of his original performance and large-scale drawings he produced during his tenure in the gallery window. New photographs in Ian Wallace's Hotel series (1986-ongoing), made for this exhibition, marry photography and painting, and show the temporary "studios" that are the hotel rooms he occupies as he travels.
Taken individually, each contemporary work presents a site: a hotel, a notebook, an archive, a network, an event, or a theatrical stage. Together they constitute the "many places"-physical and conceptual-that "at once" constitute a reimagined artist's studio.
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