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EXIT HISTORY:
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000
1/29/2000 - 4/29/2000
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Vito Acconci, Tom Andersen, Laurie Anderson,
Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Mike Arvan, Michael Ashkin, Rudolf
Baranik, Ron
Baron, Lisa Beck, Samuel Beckett, Willie Birch, Chakaia Booker,
Louise Bourgeois, Nina Bovasso, David Brody, David Henry Brown
Jr., Bullet Space, Chris Burden, Ken Butler, Luis Camnitzer, Andrew
Castrucci, Patty Chang, Colin Chase, Shu Lea Cheang, Sue Coe, Susanna
Coffey, Nancy Cohen, Robert Colescott, Papo Colo, Maureen Conner,
William Cotton, Petah Coyne, R. Crumb, Jaime Davidovich, Kim Dingle,
Paul D. Miller / DJ, Daniella Dooling, Juan Downey, Jimmie Durham,
Nicole Eisenman, Inka Essenhigh, Ming Fay, John Fekner, Judy Fox,
Ava Gerber, John Giorno, Steve Giovinco, Michael Gitlin, Judy Glantzman,
Leon Golub, Ilona Granet, Elliott Green, Gregory Green, Nancy Grossman,
Jane Hammond, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Eva Hesse, Peter
Hildebrand, Jenny Holzer, Tehching Hsieh, David Humphrey, Ilya
Kabakov, Brad Kahlhamer, Jerry Kearns, Shelagh Keeley, Saeri Kiritani,
Christopher Knowles, Naomie Kremer, Peter Kuper, Tseng Kwong Chi,
Jaron Lanier, Young Sun Lim, Pedro Lujan, George Maciunas, Alfredo
Martinez, Gordon Matta-Clark, Komar & Melamid, Sean Mellyn,
Ana Mendieta, Antonio Miralda, Charlotte Moorman, Arnaldo Morales,
Charlie Morrow, Antonio Muntadas, Ben Neill, Shirin Neshat, Joshua
Neustein, Tom Otterness, Yigal Ozeri, Roxy Paine, Gary Panter,
Suzan-Lori Parks, Cesar Paternosto, Bruce Pearson, Sheila Pepe,
Joyce Pensato, Judy Pfaff, Adrian Piper, Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Archie
Rand, Jaques Roch, Rudy Royval, Raul Ruiz, Christy Rupp, Juan Sanchez,
David Sandlin, David Scher, Carolee Schneemann, Lawrence Seward,
Cindy Sherman, Amy Sillman, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Art Spiegelman,
Tony Stanzione, May Stevens, Elizabeth Streb, Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Seth Tobocman, Fred Tomaselli, Yasunao Tone, Miguel Trelles, Anton
Van Dalen, Sergio Vega, Cecilia Vicuña, Ursula von Rydingsvard,
Regina Vater, Carrie Mae Weems, Brian Weil, Hannah Wilke, Sue Williams,
Martha Wilson, Krzysztof Wodiczko, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong,
Suzanne Wright, Lynne Yamamoto, Michael Zansky, Daniel Zeller
Exhibition: Throughout its eighteen year history, Exit Art focused
on issues and art that were often overlooked by the traditional
art world because it challenged deeply held ideas about culture.
Exit Art’s projects were important and vital to seeing American
culture in its broadest perspective. Exit Art has played a significant
role in introducing and sustaining a multicultural dialogue and
inserting this dialogue into the mainstream culture. The artists
that Exit Art supported have posed new interpretations and new
strategies for thinking about contemporary art and culture.
The End was an exhibition in three parts. The first part featured
documentation from Exit Art’s archive, which included artist
correspondence, project plans, photographs, video, slides, and
the unique invitation and poster designs that Exit Art created
for each project. This documentary section of the exhibition was
organized chronologically, using Exit Art’s exhibition history
as a guide. Following this chronology the public was able to follow
the history of Exit Art’s curatorial process and language.
The second part of the exhibition featured original art by over
100 artists that were a significant part of Exit Art’s history.
The final aspect of the show was dedicated to artists who participated
in Exit Art’s performance projects; they were featured through
a series of video and slide presentations.
Neo: New Approaches to Artmaking
5/20/2000 - 8/19/2000
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Remy Amezcua, Woo Song Bang, Tari Campbell, Peter Coe,
Pedro Cruz-Castro, Laura Dunn, Anna Ehrsam, David Henderson, Daren
Kendall, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Elka Krajewska, Yucef Merhi, David
Opdyke, Francis Palazzolo, Hunju Park, Eung Ho Park, Scott Reynolds,
Han Sam Son, Edouard Steinhauer, Michael Zansky, Elizabeth Zawada
Exhibition: Neo marked a new way of exposing
artists, not as a traditional group show, but rather as a series
of individual presentations
woven together according to the artists’ process and aesthetic.
The purpose of this was to construct a collective expression
with individual voices, experimenting with the intent of a group
show.
This idea is based on the physical aspect of the archipelago,
a group of individual islands that make up one cultural expression.
Neo was Exit Art’s annual new artist exhibition for the
year 2000, a curatorial review of some of the freshest and
most innovative
contemporary art being produced by young or emerging artists
who had not yet received significant exposure for their art.
Neo was
about new approaches to art making. For many of these artists,
Neo represented the first significant investigation and contextualization
of their work. This was a show of new talent.
Paradise Now:
Picturing the Genetic Revolution
9/9/2000 - 10/28/2000
Curator(s): Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric
Artists: Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Suzanne
Anker, Dennis Ashbaugh, Aziz + Cucher, Brandon Ballengée, Christine Borland,
Nancy Burson, Helen Chadwick, Kevin Clarke, Keith Cottingham, Bryan
Crockett, Hans Danuser, Christine Davis, Mark Dion, George Gessert,
Rebecca Howland, Natalie Jeremijenko, Ronald Jones, Eduardo Kac,
davidkremers, Jane Lackey, Julian LaVerdiere, Iñigo Manglano
Ovalle, Karl S. Mihail and , Tran T. Kim-Trang, Steve Miller, Larry
Miller, Frank Moore, Alexis Rockman, ®™ark, Bradley Rubenstein,
Nicolas Rule, Christy Rupp, Gary Schneider, Laura Stein, Eva Sutton,
Catherine Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems, Gail Wight, Janet Zweig
Exhibition: The artworks shown in Paradise Now
were of the moment – that
is, innovative in content or rendering – and included both
seminal works that have become benchmarks in the field as well
as new work that was exhibited for the first time. Media encompassed
installation and mixed-media works, interactive and on-line projects,
photographs, painting, and sculpture. Paradise Now was divided
into two sections. The first featured work that addressed research
into the nature of the human genome, and the second included works
exploring the implications of biotechnology on animal and plant
life.
The artworks addressed a number of major issues, including: Race – the
implications of genetic research confirming that humans of all
races are 99.9 percent genetically the same; Economics – ownership
of genes and whether they should be patented and sold to the highest
bidder; Reproduction – germ-line gene therapy and how it
could be used to design babies and/or improve the health of human
beings before they are born; privacy – DNA identification
and who has access to the information; Health – how gene
therapy and new technologies will be used to prevent and treat
disease; Food Safety – risks and benefits of genetically
engineered food crops and animals.
A selection of scientific artifacts were displayed alongside works
of art to give the public a better grasp of the scientific research
and its meaning, including: Dr. James D. Watson’s 1953
painted metal and wire model of a DNA molecule, a gene chip the
size of
a postage stamp, a sampling of a vast paper printout of the human
genome, pop-culture ephemera as science fiction and cartoon imagery.
Collector’s Choice
11/10/2000 - 1/6/2001
Curator(s): Greg Allen, J.K. Brown & Eric Diefenbach, Norman
Dubrow, Richard Ekstract, Raymond Learsy, Greg Miller, Ann Tenenbaum,
and Paige West
Artists: Haluk Akakce, Lorenzo de los Angeles, Richard Billingham,
Nathan Carter, Chris Chiappa, Bonnie Collura, Rob Conger, Gregory
Crewdson, Jay Davis, Benjamin Edwards, Arturo Elizondo, Jeff Elrod,
Manuel Esnoz, Patrick Faegenbaum, Gajin Fijuta, Judy Fox, Henry
Furnas, Torben Giehler, Wendell Gladstone, James Gobel, Anthony
Goicolea
Daniela Gullatta, Katy Grannan, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Nanna
H, Jan van Imschoot, Chris Johanson, Howard Johnson, Justine Kurland,
Myriam Laplante, Michael Lazarus, Rosa Loy, Layla Lozano, Vera
Lutter, Marie Marden, Julie Moos, Vic Muniz, Juha Nenonen, Catherine
Opie, Erik Parker, Aaron Romine, Sally Ross, Christian Schumann,
Alejandra Seeber, Jean Shin, Martin Sjoberg, Suzanna Star, Lee
Stoetzel, Beat Streuli, Hiroshi Sujimoto, Austin Thomas, Wolfgang
Tillmans, Michael Timpson, Mette Tronvoll, Leo Villareal, Dirk
Westphal, Joanna Whittle, Su-en Wong, Amy Yoes
Exhibition: Collector’s Choice was Exit Art’s third-annual “choice” exhibition
- an annual, ongoing project that invites different segments of
the art world to function as guest curators. For 2000, eight New
York collectors were asked to "shop the market" and showcase
emerging artists who have caught their eye.
Each invited collector was presented with the following scenario:
you've just received an inheritance of $50,000, with the sole
stipulation that the money be used to buy contemporary art, what
would you
buy? The guest curators were encouraged to seek out works that
were genuinely available, and when possible, to look beyond what
they already own and collect. The aim was to simultaneously demonstrate
each collector’s individual preferences and tendencies,
and to demonstrate the accessibility and availability of outstanding
contemporary art.
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