In Harm's Way
Opening Thursday, September 14, 5PM - 7PM
Through September 27, 2006, 12PM - 7PM
15 Nassau (corner of Pine St.)
FREE
Curated by New Orleans artist and curator, Dan Tague, In Harm's Way grows directly from the experiences of Hurricane Katrina, capturing a year of artistic moods: the anger and animosity in the immediate wake of the storm, the tentative optimism of almost a year later, the hope that New Orleans will be rebuilt together with the harsh depiction of the government's neglect of this city. Some take a nostalgic glance back at what once was, while other works offer a conceptual perspective on the experience. These artistic responses to disaster stand alongside more traditional source material; in combining the intimate traces of psychology with the stumbling machinations of political bureaucracy, In Harm's Way asks the more fundamental question about the relationship of catastrophe to representation.
Artists include David Buckingham, Christine Catsisfas, Stephen Collier, Michelle Elmore, Generic Art Solutions. Srdjan Loncar, Daphne J. Loney, Julie Anne Pieri, Christopher Saucedo, Prichard Smith, and Dan Tague
AIR (Area's Immediate Reading)
by Preemptive Media
Opening Thursday, September 14, 5PM - 7PM
Through September 21, 2006, 12PM - 7PM
125 Maiden Lane, ground floor
FREE
What's in the AIR these days? Find out for yourself at artist collective, Preemptive Media's AIR exhibition. A networked social experiment in which individuals can monitor their own neighborhoods, AIR gives people the tools to monitor the by-products of fossil fuels combustion and pollution. Small portable devices that contain an on-board GPS unit and digital compass, combined with a database of known pollution sources such as power plants and heavy industries, allow carriers to see their distance from polluters and other AIR devices. These devices regularly transmit information to a central database allowing for real-time visualization on display in 125 Maiden Lane. While AIR is designed to be a tool for individuals and groups, it also serves as a platform to discuss energy politics and their impact on environment, health, and social groups in specific regions. [more info]
Presented in partnership with Eyebeam as part of the Social Sculpture Commission
Book Launch: Recipe for Downtown Reception
Friday, September 15, 6PM - 8PM
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Hotels of New York - Union Square, 201 Park Ave. S.
Artists, architects, musicians, writers, and the general public respond to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's invitation to suggest "recipes" for Downtown - anything from a design for a new public piazza to the instructions for making a new kind of pizza. Imaginative, fanciful, practical, and creative, this recipe book is published using "just-in-time" printing by the Lower East Side design and printing studio of Dexter Sinister. Includes David Byrne, Greg Sholette, Mike Wallace, Agnes Gund, Scorched Earth, Dick's Hardware and more [more info].
