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The Project is pleased to announce:
"A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show"
curated by Jens Hoffmann
June 1 - August 17, 2002
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 17, 2002, 6-8 PM
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal.
But
to lose oneself in a city--as one loses oneself in a forest--this calls
for quite a different schooling.
- Walter Benjamin: A Berlin Chronicle, 1932
Berlin-based curator Jens Hoffmann has been invited to curate an
exhibition during the summer months of 2002 in The Project's recently
opened Los Angeles space. The exhibition focuses on the idea of
exploring
a totally unknown territory. Hoffmann, who has only been in Los Angeles
for short visits, will investigate 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 examined as the research and
the development of this exhibition will only begin with the first day of
the show.
Week by week the space of The Project will be filled with art works
uncovered by the curator's research. Consequently, the research will in
fact be the exhibition and the exhibition the research. In addition to
the
works of art the show will include other interdisciplinary forms of
artistic articulation such as performances and lectures - some of which
will extend into the real space of the city.
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. A reception will be
held on the last day of the exhibition and a second press release will
be
sent with the exact names of the participants of the exhibition.
Gallery hours of operation are Wednesday through Saturday 11-6 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.
http://www.elproyecto.com
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