still from Tremors by Sirra Sigurdardottir

The Gowanus Studio Space Presents:
TEMPORALITY AWARENESS

as part of SPRING/BREAK Art Show
in conjunction with ARMORY WEEK 2012
at OLD SCHOOL
233 MOTT Street at PRINCE Street NEW YORK
MARCH 8TH – 11TH 2012
PREVIEW MARCH 6TH 6PM-9PM
3RD FLOOR (french fries available in the courtyard)

ATOM CIANFARANI
BEN COHEN
KRISTA PETERS
SIRRA SIGURDARDOTTIR
Curated by ANGELA CONANT

Working from Iceland, Canada, Haiti and New York City, artists address hypothetical and real moments along the timeline of ecological and cultural collapse. Works in this exhibition record the history of civilization. They collect material that can withstand disaster; and attempt to preserve and prolong existence as we know it. These works reflect our current moment of temporality awareness.

Atom Cianfarani, a garbage lover and survival connoisseur, offers a “72 hour survival pack” to help you escape any urban apocalypse. Made from garbage off the streets of Toronto, Canada and New York City, Exit New York includes a protective suit and shelter quilt made from reflective, insulating mylar coffee bags, and inscribed with a map of walkable exit strategies from New York City. The work instructs viewers to compile their own packs from discarded material.

Ben Cohen has converted a diesel-powered generator to run on used vegetable oil, the fruits (french fries) of which are available for consumption. The generator powers lights and other equipment throughout the exhibition. Cohen produces immediate sustenance and alternative power, mimicking the global struggle to preserve ecological integrity before it is too late.

Krista Peters’ sculpture installations amass found materials which might as well be remnants of our contemporary world after the event of the End of Days. Culled from an expedition to Haiti where she helped local artisans produce wares and grow small businesses, Peters selected objects for their repurposed aesthetic. Displaced and re-assembled, the works shadow their original context of a culture in mourning.

Sirra Sigurdardottir hails from Iceland where she shot video in Hveragerdi, a small town which suffered a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in 2008. Her work for this exhibition shows residents of Hveragerdi, who have experienced economic as well as ecological upheaval, as they re-live the tremor in an earthquake simulator. Sigurdardottir’s side-by-side display of the subjects’ naked reactions is a striking visualization of community, societal and world shared experience.

Assumptions are made that physical uncertainty compares to economic disaster. Objects are collected and reorganized in the light of a second existence. Temporality Awareness compares response from places which have undergone real existential threats; to those still safe enough to focus on prevention and preservation.

SPRING/BREAK Art Show is the new curator-driven art fair during the Armory Arts Week.  The fair will inhabit Old School, a four-story schoolhouse located in NoLIta from March 6th – March 11th, 2012. Featuring the projects of 23 curators, the show will abandon the traditional focus on galleries – offering a “break” from the typical art fair model – and showcase a range of New York City’s curatorial voices, all surrounding a single exhibition theme – Apocalist: the end of the world.

Saturday Feb 11, 8pm – late
Free

[ featuring ]

Nicole WALLACE, Eddie HOPELY
& Lucy IVES in their natural environs

[ party = beer + music + dance ]

Folly time. A few surprises.

[ chapbook ]

by Noah BREUER
http://noahbreuer.com/
Free to those who show.

[ history ]

Nicole WALLACE is the program assistant at The Poetry Project and the author of WHITE FLOWERS, a loose-leaf multimedia chapbook in an envelope. She also co-edits BRAWLING PIGEON, which appears occasionally.

Eddie HOPELY is the author of RUDE DOOR (2011), HAND PORTRAITS IN STEAKS AND SPRIG (2010) and CANNOT CONTRACT (2010). His work has appeared in Gauss PDF, Stuffed Crust, Sustainable Aircraft, No Poetry and A Similar But Different Quality.

Lucy IVES is the author of a long poem, ANAMNESIS (Slope Editions, 2009), and the forthcoming EARLY POEMS. In May 2011, Unicorn Evil issued a 12″ album of her reading at Flying Object (FOUE-001 Lucy Ives – Anamnesis). She is a senior editor at Triple Canopy.

Private Line is operated by Kendra Sullivan, Megan Ewing & Macgregor Card.

The Gowanus Studio Space is a non-profit organization, providing artists and designers with the resources necessary to make ambitious work a reality. [www.gowanusstudio.org]

1 session
April 21st 
Saturday, 12-4pm (Demonstration + time to print with Johee’s help)
$95 non-member / $65 member

Embrace the digital age! Learn to set up and print film positives using Photoshop and our 42″ wide inkjet printer. In this workshop, you will learn how to prepare digital files for output on an inkjet printer and the basics about how to operate our Epson 9800 wide-format inkjet printer. Halftones, CMYK four-color separations, text and other basic image types will be covered.

What we provide:
Output for 1 film. (which will be available for pickup if not printed during class)
You will then get certification to use the printer in the future**

What you bring:
BYOL (BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP*)
*If you do not have a laptop to bring: it’s okay, we’ll be projecting the lesson from a CS5 equipped computer.
**Output costs are $.75 per linear inch without the class, and $.50 per linear inch with certification.

Instructor Noah Breuer:

Noah Breuer received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Japanese woodblock printmaking and papermaking from Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto, Japan. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally in China and Japan. Noah works as an Adjunct Professor in the printmaking department at New York University and as a Freelance Master Printer.

PRIVATE LINE: WE CAN TRY

Private Line takes seriously Dorothea Lasky’s injunction to “make poetry a party.” You can help curators Kendra Sullivan, Megan Ewing & Macgregor Card with this mission once a month at The Gowanus Studio Space.

[ featuring ]

Astrid LORANGE, Lawrence GIFFIN
& Andrew DURBIN at night.

[ party ]

In the Gowanus w/ Tea Party Republicans.

[ beer + music ]

Because we need to talk.

[ chapbook ]

Designed for the occasion
by artist/printer Liz Zanis
for all guests, who are all invited.

Andrew DURBIN co-edits O’clock Press and its journal, CLOCK. His work has appeared in Antennae, InDigest, >kill author, Spiral Orb, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He blogs at jargonaphasia.tumblr.com.

Lawrence GIFFIN is a poet and archivist living in Durham, NC. His first book, Sorites, was published by Tea Party Republicans Press in 2011. He is a member of the loose publishing collective Lil’ Norton, where he is the series editor of the Physical Poets Home Library, an occasional .pdf journal that focuses on the work of different group of writers who are in conversation with each other about their work. A sort of historical novel, Aa, is due in 2011 from Blanc Press. Giffin is the author of the earlier chapbook Get the Fuck Back into that Burning Plane (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009).

Astrid LORANGE is a PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is writing on Gertrude Stein, Alfred North Whitehead, John Cage, and Joan Retallack. Her first book, Eating and Speaking, was published by Tea Party Republicans Press in 2011.

Tea Party Republicans Press is edited by Josef Kaplan & Douglas Piccinnini. [www.teapartyrepublicanspress.com]

Private Line is operated by Kendra Sullivan, Megan Ewing & Macgregor Card.

The Gowanus Studio Space presents Meditations on the Multiple, an exhibition of work made over the last six months by the GSS 2011 Printshop Residents. Residents have focused on printmaking as not simply the result of an artistic process but an essential part of a multi-disciplinary work.

In keeping with the GSS mission to facilitate production of artwork and encourage cross-disciplinary exchange, the GSS Printmaking Residency brings accomplished artists and dedicated printmakers into a community with fellow GSS studio members with the goal of fostering experimental collaboration along with ensuring the relevance of Printmaking in contemporary art practice.

Please join us for the opening reception, December 9th, 7pm to 10pm with performances by Jomar Statkun and Michelle Levy.

_gaia together with its collaborators in Cyprus: The Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC), the European Mediterranean Arts Association (EMAA) and Rooftop Theatre Group present the New News is Old News: A Wonder Women Project at The Gowanus Studio Space.

Opening Reception Friday, November 11th, 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

This is why you live here.
This is why you should be starting your costume early.
The decor will be to die for.

Saturday, October 29th 9pm – 4am

The Gowanus Studio Space (it is really big)
166 7th street between 2nd and 3rd ave
Brooklyn, NY

There will be many kegs of Kelso beer
DJ ChewRocks will kick your evening into Maximum Overdrive.

$5 at the door (all proceeds to benefit the GSS)

Start getting scared.
We love you.