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EXIT HISTORY:
Body and the East
1/20/2001 - 3/17/2001
Curator(s): Zdenka Badovinac
Artists: Jusuf Hadzifejzovic, Nebojsa Seric-Soba,
Rassim Krastev, Ventsislav Zankov, Nenad Dancuo, Vlasta Delimar,
Tomislav Gotovac,
Aleksandar Ilic, Sanja Ivekovic, Bozidar Jurjevic, Dalibor Martinis,
Milan Knízák, Jirí Kovanda, Karel Miler, Jan
Mlcoch, Jirí Suruvka, Petr Stembera, Margita Titlová-Ylovsky,
Autoperforationsartisten (Micha Brendel, Else Gabriel + Ulf Wrede,
Via Lewandowsky), Via Lewandowsky, Durs Grünbein, Tibor Hajas,
Istaván Kovács, János Szirtes, Post Ars (Aleksas
Andriuskevicius, Rombertas Antinis, Ceslovas Lukenskas), Egle Rakauskaite,
Pavel Braila, Lilia Dragneva, Lucia Macari, Jerzy Beres, Katarzyna
Kozyra, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Teresa Murak, Józef Robakowski,
Jerzy Truszkowski, Alexandru Antik, Ion Grigorescu, Paul Neagu,
Amalia Perjovschi, Dan Perjovschi, Alexander Brener, Vadim Fishkin,
Rimma & Valery Gerlovin, Komar & Melamid, Oleg Kulik, Igor
Makarevich, Vladislav Mamushev Monroe, MOVEMENT GROUP, Alexander
Yulikov, ARTPROSPEKT P.O.P. (Ladislav Pagác, Viktor Oravec,
Milan Pagác), Peter Bartos, L’ubomír Durcek,
Michal Kern, Vladimír Kordos, Peter Meluzin, Dezider Tóth
(TD), BORGHESIA, Leonora Jakovljevic-Mark, Marko A. Kovacic, LAIBACH,
Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy at NSK (Peter Mlakar),
OHO (David Nez, Andraz Salamun, Tomaz Salamun), Marko Peljhan,
Franc Purg, Joze Slak-Doka, Ive Tabar, Janja Zvegelj, Marina Abramovic,
Dejan Andelkovic & Jelica Radovanovic, Radomir Damnjan, Era
Milivojevic, Tanja Ostojic, Nesa Paripovic, Nenad Rackovic, Miroslav
Misa Savic, Bálint Szombathy, Ilija Soskic, Rasa Todosijevic,
Peter Mlakar, Slaven Tolj.
Exhibition: Body and the East was an important survey of the
history of body art actions performed in the former Eastern Bloc
and Soviet Union from the 1960s to the present.
Because much of
this work operated outside the boundaries of state-sanctioned
art, the exhibition brought to the fore a body of work experienced
by
only a small minority in the East, and known to only few in the
West.
The exhibition examined more than 200 body actions and performance
works through extensive video footage and still photographs taken
during live actions. More than twenty video monitors were stationed
throughout the galleries of Exit Art presenting documentation
of these important performances. Drawings, writings, photographs,
and other archival materials also contributed to an understanding
of how a significant group of artists based in the former Eastern
bloc countries used their bodies as a starting point for art.
The
exhibition was organized into fourteen sections, each representing
a country in Eastern Europe.
Publication: A 192-page, fully-illustrated, bilingual
(Slovenian/English) book entitled Body and the East: From the 1960s
to the Present
features essays by Zdenka Badovinac, Kristine Stiles and shorter
statements by the 14 guest curators. The catalogue was published
by MIT Press in conjunction with the exhibition’s opening
in Ljubljana.
Danger
3/31/2001 - 5/19/2001
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Robert Chambers, Gregory Green, David Leslie, Chico MacMurtrie,
Yucef Merhi, Arnaldo Morales, Keith Sanborn, Susan Seubert
Exhibition: Danger was an exhibition that gave an indication of
the many possibilities that artists use to depict danger. There
is a fascination with this topic that was expressed in this exhibition
by eight artists who used different mediums to explore the concept
of danger including the physical, mechanical, psychological, historical,
political, metaphysical, and ecological.
Festival of Solitude
4/20/2001 - 5/16/2001
Curator(s): Limor Tomer
Artists: Jane Ira Bloom, Hamiet Bluiett, Dean Bowman, Ken Butler,
Samir Chatterjee, Keba Cissoko, Min Xiao Fen, Drew Gress , Matt
Haimovitz, Dana Hanchard, Shelley Hirsch, Leroy Jenkins, Jerome
Kitske, Cooper-Moore, Tracie Morris, Kwaaku Kwaakye Obeng, Brandon
Ross, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Matt Wilson, Ned Rothenberg, Marjana
Sadowska, Brad Shepik
Music Program: Festival of Solitude was an exciting new music
series that featured twenty-five extraordinary performers from
a wide range of musical genres and backgrounds, including classical
western and non-western traditions, new music, and improvising
jazz and non-western traditions. Each artist performed a solo twenty
minute segment, largely un-amplified.
The LP Show
6/9/2001 - 8/17/2001
Curator(s): Carlo McCormick
Exhibition: The LP Show featured over 2,500 innovative
covers that were culled from over fifty collections. This exhibition
traced
the history of graphic design for album covers from its beginnings
in the 1940’s to contemporary graphics that endure as the
medium has given way to the digital age of the compact disc. During
the last half of the 20th century, the album cover was one of the
most distributed popular art mediums. The LP Show examined the
tremendous impact commercial artists, who were often employed by
large record labels and doing amazing work in absolute anonymity,
had on post-war popular culture.
The LP Show was not intended to be a history of music, but rather
a diverse survey of record cover graphics. Many of the most famous
album covers were not featured, instead the exhibition was structured
thematically around seemingly obscure genres. Cultural themes ranged
from religion to rage, seduction to sex, picturesque escapism to
party inebriation, and many, many others. This thematic visual
archive formed a social narrative that translated into a cultural
timeline.
Travel: Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA, The Andy Warhol
Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Spunky
9/8/2001 - 10/27/2001
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Alicia Ackerman, Larry Bamburg, Avner Ben-Gal, Sandra
Bermudez, Timothy Blum, Frank Bramblett , Cooper , Jason D’Aquino,
Sharon Engelstein, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Chris Francione,
Tomer Ganihar, Marc Grubstein, Kimberley Hart, James Hegge, Yongkyoung
Kim, Sun K. Kwak, Sigalit Landau, Edmundo de Marchena, Patrick
Martinez, Ryan McGinness, Philip Rantzer, Blake Sandberg, Hyungsub
Shin, Mette Tomerup
Exhibition: Spunky was Exit Art’s annual emerging artists
exhibition for 2001, a curatorial review of some of the freshest
and most innovative contemporary art being produced by emerging
artists who have not yet received significant exposure for their
art. The purpose of this show was to expose and explore new work
that exhibits a fearless approach in self-expression, human sensations,
and cultural reflections. All of the participating artists in Spunky
were selected by directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo from
studio visits that resulted from Exit Art’s ongoing slide
review program. Spunky represented an international and national
selection of more than twenty-five artists whose work includes
painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, installation,
and performance. Furthermore, each artist was represented by
several pieces indicating a range and depth to their work.
Boomerang:
Collector’s Choice
11/10/2001 - 1/5/2002
Curator(s): Flora Miller Biddle, Kenneth L. Freed, Wynn Kramarsky,
Andrew Ong, Nancy & Joel Portnoy, Bill Previdi, BZ & Michael
Schwartz, Allison Lane Rubler & Meredith Lane Verona
Artists: Karen Arm, Jill Baroff, Michael Bevilacqua, Sydney F.
Biddle, James Bidgood, Fabian Birgfeld, Nancy Brooks Brody, Johanna
Burke, Jay Batlle, Peter Boynton, Kevin Cannon, Geoff Chadsey,
Chris Chiappa, Art Crumb, Tim Davis,Verne Dawson, Lucky DeBellevue,
Brett Cook-Dizney, Benjamin Edwards, Juliana Ellman, Tony Feher,
Phil Frost, Carlos Garaicoa, Jeff Gauntt, Ewan Gibbs, Sam Gordon,
Katy Grannan, Katie Grinnan, Anton Henning, Santiago Hernandez,
Christine Hiebert, Patrick Hill, Jeff Jackson, Patrick Jacobs,
Gendron Jensen, Shannon Kennedy, Alix Lambert, Louise Lawler, Cary
S. Leibowitz, Sharon Louden, Malerie Marder, David McIntosh, Sean
Mellyn, Florian Merkel, David Moreno, Sandeep Mukherjee, Kori Newkirk,
Leoni Oostvogel, Catherine Opie, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Aaron
Parazette, Enoc Perez, Gianni Piacentino, Kenneth Price, Rob Pruitt,
Kanishka Raja, Scott Richter, Dario Robleto, Matthew Ronay, Celia
Rumsey, Oli Sihvonen, Amy Sillman, Cary Smith, Christine Taylor
Patten, Jordan Tinker, toadhouse, Richard Tuttle, Piotr Uklanski,
Kathryn Walker, John Waters, Mark Williams
Exhibition: Boomerang was Exit Art’s fourth annual exhibition
in the Choice series. For 2001, Exit Art revised the premise for
this project and invited both established and emerging collectors
to select specific pieces for an exhibition based on an imaginary “collecting
budget” of $100,000. In keeping with Exit Art’s mission
to bring the work of lesser-known artists to a broader audience,
all participants were asked to choose artists who had not had major
exposure. influences, parallels and differences among a diverse
group of artists may be suggested
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