MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from an international selection of video artists. During the exhibition, viewers will only be able to see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. By placing this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality through a range of otherwise very different works. In this way, MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally; the common metaphor adopted by the artist is that they live in a goldfish bowl, where they are under constant scrutiny or surveillance; MUTE inverts the metaphor and creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.
MUTE runs 24/7 thru April.
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Artists: Freee (UK) \ Tim Noble (USA) \ Kisito Assangni (France) \ The Institute for Infinitely Small Things (USA) \ Y Liver (France) \ Jody Zellen (USA) \ Brian Delevie (USA) \ Rick Niebe (Fr) \ Bertrand Secret (France) \ Zhenchen Liu (China) \ IEVA (France)
OPENING: MARCH 22nd from 7pm
ThINC • Company Gallery • 1 Lincoln Center • Syracuse • info@thinc.org • 315 729 7483
October 11, 2007 at 1:19 am
Andrew, this is the first time I have been on your website and I am very interested in your pillowtalk series. Would be interested in talking more about this. I was in an interesting show with the New Museum called Counter Culture that talked amongst other things about the value that we ascribe to objects and object-makers. I developed an art business with three homeless men on the Bowery (called This Store Too with a nod to Claes Oldenberg’s The Store), that turned into a two year project and it was based on these very questions of value and worth - with art being made out of possessions that were chosen by homeless men.
Anyway, too long for here - but sometime let’s talk further. Glad to have met you and Natalia.