Artists' talk by participating artists about the current exhibition: Interpretations, Translations, Transactions is scheduled to take place at the temporary space on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at 7:00 pm.

This talk will be informal conversation intended to explore artists' collaborative process and curatorial perspective by the participating artists, as well as theoritical and conceptual aspects of the exhibition. The exhibition will be on view till 10 pm on the same night.

The talk will start shortly after a group of audience gather at the space, expected at 7:30 pm.

Please come to engage and to participate in the talk. Your feedback will be important and highly appreciated!

+ small refreshment will be served at the talk.

++ please note that not all the participating artists will be present.

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the current exhibition:

Interpretations, Translations, Transactions:

an international collaborative project devised by Jeremy DePrez, Francis Giampietro and Grant MacManus.

Jeremy DePrez along with Aimee Lusty (Brooklyn), Pablo Boffelli (Argentina), Mitchell Cumming (Australia), Laurent Impeduglia (Belgium) and special guest Geoff Hippenstiel (Houston) examine the language within and around adolescent toys by physically dismantling and re-contextualizing them in two dimensional as well as three dimensional formats. The collaboration developed through the social networking site flickr as a way to build a working dialogue between the artists.  As DePrez worked on sculptures he would post progress shots on flickr and the other artists would use that information to develop two dimensional works that in turn would get posted on flickr and inform the sculptures.

Francis Giampietro exchanges body hair with Ivan Monforte of New York, in order to create two brick sized resin cubes of hair.  The impetus for this project came out of casual conversations between the artists around themes of sex, love, religion, marriage, martyrdom, intimacy, pain and sainthood.  The intimate and ritualistic action is in an attempt to speak about the simultaneous veneration and rejection of the body often found in spiritual and religious rhetoric. 

Another experimental project is executed between Grant MacManus, a Houston base video and sound artist, and Andrea Mouth, a nomadic sound artist currently paused in China. MacManus came across her when she contacted him via his website about a video project he had worked on. Mouth and MacManus proceeded to trade audio files and collaborate on the on-going sounds project entitled "transversality of journals," which explores translatability and transversality of reproducible and ephemeral quality of phonetic materials they integrate.

Thank you