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In 1997, the World Trade Center gained a new group of tenants: artists. Over the past 10 years, LMCC’s residency program, now called Workspace has provided free, temporary studio space in Lower Manhattan to over 250 emerging artists and writers in such locations as the Woolworth Building and the U.S. Custom House. Our mission to place artists in studios just blocks from Wall Street has changed what it means to “work” downtown. Invited curators explored the vast archive of the LMCC residency program and came up with four diverse exhibitions, combining artists from various years, locations and mediums. Out of Site is a series of guest curated exhibitions and special events that takes artists’ work out of the studio and brings audiences to several locations downtown to explore the program’s past and present.
[ download the brochure]
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The Shape of Things to Come
Curator: Marco Antonini
REDHEAD at LMCC,
125 Maiden Lane, fl 2, off Water Street
November 5 – December 14, 2007
Hours: Monday – Friday, 12noon – 6pm; Closed November 12, 22 and 23
Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 2007, 6-8pm
Downtown Manhattan has always been a place of great juxtapositions, the dispenser of a human energy that ebbs and flows. The blue collar and the white collar workers. The tourists. All experiencing the same day. Businesses succeeding and failing. All under an impossibly high sky. And in another world, but right down the street, these juxtapositions have contributed to the creation of some visionary artwork, projects, and ideas.
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Making Noise
Curators: Andrew Cappetta and Jeff Pash
Melville Gallery at the South Street Seaport Museum,
213 Water Street, near the South Street Seaport
November 28, 2007 – January 2, 2008
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm – 5pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29, 6-8pm
Making Noise features work by visual artists who utilize the many different modes by which sound is produced and received. Exploring the possibilities that lie within the relationship between producer and receiver, these artists demonstrate how the manipulation of sound can become a tool for the organization of power and, in turn, the subversion of it.
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Imaginary Arsenals
Curator: Kimberly Lamm
Cuchifritos, Artists Alliance, Inc.,
120 Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets
(Inside the Essex Street Market at the South end of the building)
December 8, 2007 – January 19, 2008
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 12pm - 5:30pm
Closed December 20, 2007 - January 2, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 8, 4-6pm
Imaginary Arsenals addresses the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists. Less interested in explicit depictions of war, the exhibition explores the various ways political conflict insinuates itself into cultural imaginaries and manifests itself in artistic practice.
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Human Resources
Curator: Sara Reisman@SEAPORT!
133 Beekman Street
(at Front Street, entrance at 207A Front Street)
Jan 8 - Feb 3, 2008
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Friday & Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan 10 2008, 6 - 8pm
Space Provided by General Growth Properties
Human Resources takes into account elements of human exchange that many LMCC resident artists have explored while working downtown. Selected artworks recall David Rockefeller's founding of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council shortly after the Twin Towers were built, when the council's initial purpose was to humanize the architecture of the World Trade Center Plaza that many area workers found intimidating.
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Launch Party for Out of Site: A Decade Downtown
Thursday, November 8, 7-9pm
200 Hudson Street, fl 4, off Canal Street
RSVP is closed
Join us in the studios of the current resident artists for a party to kick off the series and celebrate ten years of creativity.
The Last Supper
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 5:30-7:30pm
Performance by Nicolás Dumit Estévez
Presented as part of PERFORMA 07
Collector’s Room, U.S. Custom House,1 Bowling Green (at Broadway)
Enter at the National Museum of the American Indian
Twelve artists and curators gather at one table with Nicolás Dumit Estévez in a reflection of the relationship of art to ritual. This is the culminating event of For Art’s Sake, a series of artistic urban pilgrimages conceived of, and undertaken by Estévez over the past three years. The guests at the table bring their own audio-visual and performative double-take on these journeys. Participants: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Nao Bustamante, Alexander Campos, Deborah Cullen, Juliana Driever, Tom Finkelpearl, Olivia Georgia, Alanna Lockward, Yasmin Ramirez, Sara Reisman, Claire Tancons, Frankie Mann standing in for Linda Montano.
NEW Exhibition Tour
Saturday, January 19, 4-6PM
Led by Erin Donnelly, LMCC Residency Director and Curator
Meet Erin at Cuchifritos inside Essex Market to kick the tour off with Imaginary Arsenals and we’ll make our way to Human Resources at the Seaport Cultural Center (@SEAPORT!)
Exhibition Tour
Saturday, December 8, 2-4pm
Led by Erin Donnelly, LMCC Residency Director and Curator
Meet Erin at REDHEAD to kick the tour off with The Shape of Things to Come. We’ll make our way toMaking Noise at the Melville Gallery, and arrive at Cuchifritos for the opening reception of Imaginary Arsenals.
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Click here to learn more about the artists and curators participating in
OUT of SITE
Manuel Acevedo, Matthew Bakkom, Jane Benson, Jeff Byles, Kabir Carter, Michael Cataldi, Lishan Chang, Stephen Collier, Carola Dertnig, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Kate Gilmore, Charles Goldman, Terence Gower, Christopher K. Ho, Yoko Inoue, Tom Kotik, Catarina Leitão, Patrick Meagher, Diane Meyer, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Jihyun Park, Graham Parker, Kanishka Raja, Nadine Robinson, Douglas Ross, Nathan See, Dave Shim, Shelly Silver, Shinique Smith, Dan Tague, Stephen Vitiello |
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Brochure by Gabriel Bach. [download the brochure]
One. The first level of design incorporates the name of the series into a visual representation, cleverly interpreting “Out of Site” into a camouflaged texture.
Two. Referencing LMCC’s love of maps along with the emphasized interest on the southern tip, Lower Manhattan took on this camouflaged coat. In addition, because the relentless structure of this fair island is based on the grid, and that lower Manhattan is very un-grid like, two grids were utilized (one straightforward and one superimposed upon the original, at a diagonal) to reference the underlying organization (Site), and coloration to break it up (Out of Site).
Three. Bach’s personal art work often utilizes computer scripts because of how it gives the designer the ability to create the super complex, the fantastic, even the unimaginable. In turn, in some sense, it also removes the designer from the final equation, since in some regards the computer, the code, has made the final decisions. With this in mind, Bach wrote a piece of code that created the main identity…again referencing Out of Site (site this time referring to the hand of the designer).
View more of Gabriel Bach’s work here:
www.pericycle.com and www.wearedag.com |
 Lead sponsorship for Out of Site
provided by American Express. |
Additional support for Out of Site provided by
the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and Cowles Charitable Trust.
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LMCC is grateful to Workspace supporters: Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, ConEdison, Deutsche Bank, Agnes Gund, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, The Kettering Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Silverstein Properties, Inc., Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation, and Trinity Real Estate.
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