A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show
The Project
962 East 4th Street
Los Angeles, CA
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Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFormance (with veggie life), 2002
A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show
Curated by: Jens Hoffmann
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 17, 2002, 6-8 PM
The Project is pleased to announce:
A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 17, 2002, 6-8 PM
Participants in order of appearance:
Kerry Tribe, William Jones, Emilie Halpern, Robert Wedemeyer / Spencer, Stair, Jennifer Bornstein, Morgan Fisher, Not for Tourists Guide, Center For Land Use Interpretation, Cameron Jamie, Sharon Hayes, Anton Vidokle, Museum For Jurassic Technology, Delia Brown, Helter Skelter Archives, Tone O. Nielsen / Democracy When!?, Arthur Ou, Anthony Pearson, Charles Gaines, Dave Muller, John Malpede / Los Angeles Poverty Department, John Baldessari, Jason Rhoades, Rodney McMillian, Frances Stark, Trisha Donnelly, Eric Wesley, Evan Holloway, Kopp Kordansky, Jennifer Nelson, Wrong / Magazine Of Art and Criticism, Jeff Burton, Anne Collier, Michael Bears, The Speculative Archive For Historical Clarification, Melissa Longenecker, Paul McCarthy, Daniel Martinez, Mario Ybarra, Juan Capistran, Meg Cranston, William Leavitt, Morten Goll…
Curated by: Jens Hoffmann
Berlin-based curator Jens Hoffmann has been invited to curate an exhibition during the summer months of 2002 at The Project’s recently opened Los Angeles space. The exhibition focuses on the idea of exploring a totally unknown territory. Hoffmann investigated the diverse cultural and artistic scenes of Los Angeles over the period of the exhibition. The show aims to present a curatorial strategy that reacts towards the increasing deficiency of time in regards to curatorial research. The questionable concept of long term exhibition planning is reexamined as the research and the development of this exhibition started only with the first day of the show. Week by week the space of The Project was filled with more and more art works uncovered by the curator’s research.
By conceptualizing the making of an exhibition, the show proposes a different notion of how exhibitions can gain form: growing over a period of several weeks, the show emphasizes the dynamics of time and advocates an artistic and curatorial practice that privileges process over finished product. The exhibition becomes an active place, a site for development and change rather than a set of fixed and predetermined positions.
An ‘instant’ publication will document the development of the exhibition and the curatorial research in form of a diary made in collaboration with the participants and the curator of the exhibition.
Gallery hours of operation are Wednesday through Saturday 12-6 PM. The Project is located at 962 East 4th Street. The entrance is off of Hewitt Street, between 4th and 5th, three blocks east of Alameda. If you need further directions please call 213-620-0692.