Posts Tagged ‘art mini’
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
nearly two weeks ago now i briefly mentioned the ‘art mini’ exhibition happening what would then-be the following day, and the day before my sickness took hold. finally catching up, to follow up, all went well at the opening. like i also mentioned, I’ve been hearing good things about this space, Tastes Like Chicken. I tend to think I’m in with a good crowd, and when you hear good things they tend to be reliable. Tastes Like Chicken was no disappointment: the space was really intriguing, the crowd fun to be with, and the work was pretty darned good. As always, rumours circulate: some suspect the couple that run the place also live there, and might be evicted or choose to leave soon, due to the increasing development in nearby neighborhoods. However also rumoured with a friend, perhaps things in this area are actually starting to slow down, and hopefully that will allow Tastes Like Chicken to stay and develop the coop a bit. They already seem to have developed a pretty good fan base.
It was great to finally see Lance Wakeling exhibit his ‘art mini’ piece, which includes work by me, in it. This particular installation, in fact, included the work of 32 artists, and its display finally sealed in Lance’s position as Director and Intern of the art mini artwork. I really think Lance’s work was the best-in-show, which is odd, since it’s a piece about exhibition display and the art fair, so really it was more like the-show-best-in-show. Here are photos from the opening:
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
(copied + pasted from the email I sent to my mates (in NYC) because I’m too exhausted – and lazy – to think of something new to write. All the information is here:)
In a round-a-boot way I have a piece in a show opening up this Friday, 6 April (8-10pm), at Tastes Like Chicken, a gallery in Brooklyn I haven’t been to yet but have been hearing good things about.
http://www.tasteslikechickenartspace.com/One%20Pill%20Makes%20You%20Small.html
My piece is actually included in the work by Lance Wakeling, who through our collaborations has become a good friend of mine. Lance’s work in this show straddles the line of producer or curator as artist; his piece hails under the title ‘art mini’, and details of it can be found online:
http://artmini.net/
I hope you can make it out. Details below:
One Pill Makes You Small opening
@ Tastes Like Chicken
300 Morgan Avenue
Friday, 6 April, 8-10pm
Directions and Hours are online: http://www.tasteslikechickenartspace.com/Directions%20and%20Hours.html
(ps – I will get there after 9pm as I am working late that night! ciao ciao!!)
love, Nick Normal
Friday, January 26th, 2007
recently received an email from Lance Wakeling, the ‘Director and Intern’ of the world’s smallest art fair. he wrote to let all participating artists and persons involved know that the old title of ‘artMarket Mini’ has been pronounced expired, and replaced by a more concise and appropriate name of ‘ART MINI’. taking the ‘market’ out of the name helps separate the inevitable installation from being directly referential of the phenomenon of contemporary art fairs; which of course will remain so, but more through a relational effect rather than pronouncing itself a part of. Lance elaborates:
Architectural models represent both the projected idea and a realization of that idea. ART MINI fails to be well behaved as either an architectural model or an art fair because it is both. Parody and satire are indistinguishable from earnest and literal presentation. Models make it possible to think about the subject in a larger context by seeing it smaller.
Friday, June 30th, 2006
This evening I went to visit Lance Wakeling at his studio near Lorimer L in Brooklyn. I’ve mentioned Lance before, with a link to his project (artMarket Mini), only now I’ll go a little more into detail, with pictures!
As I said, Lance lives near Lorimer L in Brooklyn. There’s a lot of expensive development going up in this area, in particular the area around McCarren Park. Lots of overpriced condos for bougies being built by ‘working class’ construction workers. I don’t know if Lance has thought about it, but there are some nice (actually) overtones between the building going up viewable from his front doorstep and the construction of his project (pictures further on).
I had dropped off my Market booth to Lance over two weeks ago, but had forgotten to take any photos of it at its then-completed stage. Hah. So I took this evening to swing by Lance’s place and take some shots.
Lance’s contribution to the show include more than simply fabricating the booths themselves (with balsa wood in place of 2″x4″ studs and board for walls) and the lighting rig (which looks effing hot!), but include the framework in which the piece will eventually be presented; the Market as a whole is his piece (which has us in discussion about some of the processes by which he is organising this show, also about the notion of emulation, control, etc.).
Lance currently has the booths setup in a mock/test of the Market. It’s currently at about stomach-level; he plans to drop it down, which I agree with. Dropping the level of the booths allows the viewer to hold either an omniscient view, or to squat down or get closer to the ground and get some of those hallway views from booth-level.
And lastly my booth.
However I feel like there are enough photos in this post, and want to talk further about this project later, with more specifics about my own work. So I’ll do just that. ‘Til next time.
