21/09/12
Culture Night at Pallas Projects
Bertille Bak (FR), Andy Cahill (US), Johannes DeYoung (US), E.S.P. TV (NYC), Kakyoung Lee (KR/US), Marinella Senatore (IT), Josephine Turalba (PH)
Join us on Culture night to see our current exhibition, curated by Paul Murnaghan as an outcome of his residency at ISCP in New York.
In the summer of 2011 Paul Murnaghan found himself embedded – while a resident artist at the International Studio & Curatorial Program – in deepest Bushwick, New York (Bushwick being the up–and–coming Brooklyn neighborhood next to Williamsburg where artists currently migrate to for all the usual reasons). Whilst working on a project with Brooklyn teenagers, he was contacted by PP/S with an open remit to form an exhibition upon return. Murnaghan began collecting video works that in some way reflect the diverse positions of the indigenous and transient artists occupying the same space at one specific moment in time.
Each of the artists within this exhibition directs their lens towards a multitude of purposes, while their thoughts are refracted through existence within a global metropolis. In doing so they construct second memory, subvert tradition, entice collaboration, form fragile communities, consider and illuminate individual perspectives. In short they make a ‘here’ for us to view within the vastly over–documented city that is New York. Whilst location is the surface connection between these works, with time and format as cohesive elements, the primary connective is the individual approach to practice, the variance between subject matter, psychologies and methodologies that attempt to articulate an ontological sense of place.