Picture Parlor Bad Moon Rising

Moshe · 08.31.2008, 02:01 PM

Picture Parlor Bad Moon Rising

ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program)
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick

1040 Metropolitian Avenue , 718-387-2900
September 12 - September 12, 2008
Opening: Saturday, September 13, 7 - 10PM
Web Site

7PM: One-Day Exhibition:
Vanessa Albury
Diana Artus (ISCP)
Richard Ashcroft
Elena Bajo (ISCP)
Kelie Bowman
Greggory Bradford
Bettina Cohnen (ISCP)
Body Count
Emily Coxe
James De La Vega
Liam Everett
Lonnie Frisbee /
David di Sabatino
Tony Garifalakis (ISCP)
George Hennard
Annegret Hoch (ISCP)
Pamela Jue
Paulus Kapteyn
Richard Kern
David Matorin
Clayton Patterson
Job Piston
Luther Price
Lee Ranaldo
Max Razdow
Yoji Sakate
Jan Serych (ISCP)
Philippe Vandenberg
No story can have any more credibility than any other story. All stories are equally valid and equally invalid. It’s perfectly fine for you to believe that story, as long as you don’t impose it on anybody else.
J. Ligon Duncan III
For the second ISCP Picture Parlor, the Bad Moon Rising special exhibition presents art that focuses on sociological and anthropological observations of contemporary life. The exhibition zooms in on individual and collective behavior influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics and authority. We are positively or negatively affected by personal and professional relationships, society and on a larger scale, our geopolitical identity: our nation in relation to the other nations. Bad Moon Rising special exposes examples of how the contemporary human navigates unstable environments. This exhibition displays emotions and states of being such as boredom, loneliness, isolation, escapism, fear, self-protection, anarchy, aggression, commitment, community, power, obedience and disobedience…
'We’ve lost the center in our culture. There’s no common ground any more. You hear people talking about why politics are so rancorous today, and the discussion is so bitter in politics (...). There’s no common point for a discourse which is genteel and vigorous, to be sure, but nevertheless embracive of certain common ideals (...). You hear people talking about the center being lost, and the horizon being lost. There are no boundaries any more. You know, everything’s been transgressed. For the last forty years, if you’re really smart, and you’re part of the intelligentsia —whether you’re in the media, whether you are making movies, whether you are writing books, whether you’re teaching school—the thing that this culture rewards you for is doing what? Transgressing every boundary you can find.'
J. Ligon Duncan III
Designed and conceptualized by independent curator Jan Van Woensel, Bad Moon Rising is an ongoing, traveling project that launched at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco in December 2007. Bad Moon Rising (San Francisco) primary focused on disturbance in the USA’s society, religion and politics. A varied selection of artworks, artifacts and a-historical references exposed some of the dark sides of the world’s self-proclaimed greatest nation. Participants included Rage Against the Machine, Tariq Ali, Claire Fontaine, Ben Vautier, Custer’s Revenge, The Weather Underground etc.

Moshe · 10.03.2008, 08:34 AM

http://b-a-d-m-o-o-n-r-i-s-i-n-g.blo...-whitehot.html

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More risky was Lee Ranaldo’s installation “Paperbox,” which occupied most of the vestibule at the gallery entrance. I’m inclined to think that the piece couldn’t have worked as well on its own: the galleries of well-intentioned curators are stocked with pieces on 9/11, most of them either driven by angry political screeching or (decidedly worse) a desire to console or forgive. But “Paperbox,” a series of floor-to-ceiling columns of painted text in which the artist recalled the weeks surrounding 9/11, tried for neither and therefore succeeded. For all the contrast of cramped black words on white walls, it was a quiet piece, and every time this reviewer walked through the vestibule, there was another cluster of people reading the whole thing from start to finish. It wasn’t redemptive—who in his right mind expects good art to redeem? Its popularity at BAD MOON RISING, however, supported the notion that, as we live in an increasingly anxious age, we’re frequently drawn to art that manages, regardless of its medium, to reflect that feeling in a form that we can recognize.

o'connor · 10.03.2008, 08:41 AM

that's pretty neat.

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Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,889	Picture Parlor Bad Moon Rising ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick 1040 Metropolitian Avenue , 718-387-2900 September 12 - September 12, 2008 Opening: Saturday, September 13, 7 - 10PM Web Site 7PM: One-Day Exhibition: Vanessa Albury Diana Artus (ISCP) Richard Ashcroft Elena Bajo (ISCP) Kelie Bowman Greggory Bradford Bettina Cohnen (ISCP) Body Count Emily Coxe James De La Vega Liam Everett Lonnie Frisbee / David di Sabatino Tony Garifalakis (ISCP) George Hennard Annegret Hoch (ISCP) Pamela Jue Paulus Kapteyn Richard Kern David Matorin Clayton Patterson Job Piston Luther Price Lee Ranaldo Max Razdow Yoji Sakate Jan Serych (ISCP) Philippe Vandenberg No story can have any more credibility than any other story. All stories are equally valid and equally invalid. It’s perfectly fine for you to believe that story, as long as you don’t impose it on anybody else. J. Ligon Duncan III For the second ISCP Picture Parlor, the Bad Moon Rising special exhibition presents art that focuses on sociological and anthropological observations of contemporary life. The exhibition zooms in on individual and collective behavior influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics and authority. We are positively or negatively affected by personal and professional relationships, society and on a larger scale, our geopolitical identity: our nation in relation to the other nations. Bad Moon Rising special exposes examples of how the contemporary human navigates unstable environments. This exhibition displays emotions and states of being such as boredom, loneliness, isolation, escapism, fear, self-protection, anarchy, aggression, commitment, community, power, obedience and disobedience… 'We’ve lost the center in our culture. There’s no common ground any more. You hear people talking about why politics are so rancorous today, and the discussion is so bitter in politics (...). There’s no common point for a discourse which is genteel and vigorous, to be sure, but nevertheless embracive of certain common ideals (...). You hear people talking about the center being lost, and the horizon being lost. There are no boundaries any more. You know, everything’s been transgressed. For the last forty years, if you’re really smart, and you’re part of the intelligentsia —whether you’re in the media, whether you are making movies, whether you are writing books, whether you’re teaching school—the thing that this culture rewards you for is doing what? Transgressing every boundary you can find.' J. Ligon Duncan III Designed and conceptualized by independent curator Jan Van Woensel, Bad Moon Rising is an ongoing, traveling project that launched at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco in December 2007. Bad Moon Rising (San Francisco) primary focused on disturbance in the USA’s society, religion and politics. A varied selection of artworks, artifacts and a-historical references exposed some of the dark sides of the world’s self-proclaimed greatest nation. Participants included Rage Against the Machine, Tariq Ali, Claire Fontaine, Ben Vautier, Custer’s Revenge, The Weather Underground etc.
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10.03.2008, 08:34 AM	#2
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,889	http://b-a-d-m-o-o-n-r-i-s-i-n-g.blo...-whitehot.html ... More risky was Lee Ranaldo’s installation “Paperbox,” which occupied most of the vestibule at the gallery entrance. I’m inclined to think that the piece couldn’t have worked as well on its own: the galleries of well-intentioned curators are stocked with pieces on 9/11, most of them either driven by angry political screeching or (decidedly worse) a desire to console or forgive. But “Paperbox,” a series of floor-to-ceiling columns of painted text in which the artist recalled the weeks surrounding 9/11, tried for neither and therefore succeeded. For all the contrast of cramped black words on white walls, it was a quiet piece, and every time this reviewer walked through the vestibule, there was another cluster of people reading the whole thing from start to finish. It wasn’t redemptive—who in his right mind expects good art to redeem? Its popularity at BAD MOON RISING, however, supported the notion that, as we live in an increasingly anxious age, we’re frequently drawn to art that manages, regardless of its medium, to reflect that feeling in a form that we can recognize.
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10.03.2008, 08:41 AM	#3
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