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EXIT HISTORY:
Reactions
1/19/2002 - 4/20/2002
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Reactions investigated how the events
of September 11, 2001 altered people’s behavior toward others, the city,
and daily life; how the events changed their perceptions of reality
and the world at large. In this new era, Exit Art felt an obligation
to interpret the feelings of a larger community into a collective
expression of analysis. Therefore, we organized a global project
called Reactions, an exhibition of submissions based on these changes,
culled together from a global call for entries. The submissions
had only one requirement, they had to fit on a flat 8-1/2 x 11-inch
sheet of paper. Every response was exhibited in the front gallery.
This visual and poetic work was put into the context of historical
witness. Exit Art’s hope was that people everywhere would
feel a sense of urgency to respond and participate in this necessary,
collective expression. The overwhelming response to the show of
work from over twenty-five countries indicated that the September
11th bombings of the World Trade Center made a strong, global impression.
As part of the Reactions exhibition, Exit Art in conjunction
with DC Comics and Dark Horse comics presented over 200 original
drawings
and paintings of works included in two benefit volumes entitled
September 11. Writers and artists in comics joined together to
create a two-volume graphic novel set intended to honor and benefit
the victims of the stateside terrorist attacks that shocked the
world on September 11, 2001. Over 200 artists and writers have
crafted their own artistic reactions to the events, creating
stories and images that the art form of comics is uniquely
able to capture.
Coordinated by DC Comics (and its imprints Vertigo and WildStorm
as well as MAD Magazine), Chaos Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and
Image Comics with assistance from Oni Press and Top Shelf Productions.
Show People: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time
5/11/2002 - 8/17/2002
Curator(s): Norman Frisch and Jodi Hanel
Artists: Reza Abdoh, Anne Bogart, Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk,
Peter Schumann, Robert Wilson
Exhibition: Show People explored the practice
of six extraordinary stage directors whose work has proved central
to the evolution
of a “Downtown” aesthetic and artists’ community
over a span of four decades. Each of these influential artists
has developed a body of work equally informed by experimental practices
in the visual, literary, and performing arts. All based early in
their respective careers in the neighborhoods of Manhattan below
14th Street, these artists, along with their colleagues, collaborators,
and protégés, have gradually emigrated from the lofts
and streets of Greenwich Village, The East Village, SoHo, and Tribeca
to create acclaimed work in theaters, opera houses, and galleries
around the world. Show People traced these individual and collective
artistic trajectories and featured installations created for the
exhibition that provided insights into the ideas and principles
that have served these artists from the times of their youth through
the present moment. Drawn from their personal archives, each of
the five living artists created an installation for Exit Art recalling,
in various ways, their earliest theater works, and the ideas that
have fueled their practice since. In addition to the six artists’ installations,
the exhibition housed a media café and archive, in which
visitors could view videotapes of performances and interviews by
the featured artists and many of their colleagues and contemporaries.
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