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September 14, 2012

SPACES Announces Public Projects Through 2013

For Immediate Release

Press Release (PDF): http://www.spacesgallery.org/files/pr/2012/120914-spaces-2013-public-projects-pr.pdf

Cleveland, OH, September 14, 2012—SPACES announces its 2012-13 season of public projects. Following its mission to be the resource and public forum for artists who explore and experiment, SPACES has selected artists and experiences that test preconceptions about art, conjure engaging discussions, and challenge visitors in meaningful ways.

SPACES maintains three programs through which public projects flow:

  • R&D (Research & Development)
    The R&D (Research & Development) program invites artists, curators and other cultural producers to articulate their research and development of ideas and objects through a supported exhibition or project. These exhibitions and projects may be group, solo, or collaborative endeavors.
  • SWAP (SPACES World Artists Program)
    The SPACES World Artists Program (SWAP) is a residency initiative begun in 2002 that invites local, national and international artists to spend significant amounts of time in Cleveland. SWAP supports the creation, presentation and discussion of artwork while facilitating collaboration among audiences.
  • The Vault
    The Vault functions as a media flat file-a converted walk-in safe where audiences can experience a variety of video and audio art. Work is added to the The Vault on a rolling basis, where it remains on view for approximately six months before rotating out. Viewers have the remote control in their hands to select the work they would like to experience.
 

August 24 ? October 19, 2012
R&D: An Inventory of Absence by Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg (Milwaukee, WI)

  • SPACES welcomes collaborators Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg, who will use the structure of SPACES itself to examine the archetype of an art gallery as a collection of architectural techniques that work to negate its own space. More: http://www.spacesgallery.org/project/an-inventory-of-absence

SWAP: The Euclid Square Mall Project by Jef Scharf (Cleveland, OH)
  • When SPACES's current artist-in-residence Jef Scharf happened upon the partially abandoned structure of Euclid Square Mall last year, he was fascinated by the Mall's recent transformation of its empty retail spaces into churches and small businesses. This chance encounter led Scharf to document the mall's dramatic evolution from housing, as he puts it, "the cathedrals of capitalism to actual cathedrals." More: http://www.spacesgallery.org/project/the-euclid-square-mall-project

The Vault: Selected Video and Sound Art

November 16, 2012 ? January 18, 2013
R&D: Jeff Williams (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Through sculptures, videos, and photographs, Williams addresses the complex geographical and architectural history of the exhibition site. His work marks distinct and intersecting measures of time, using a diverse range of materials and chemicals to activate subtle transformations in the space of the gallery. The viewer would either witness or intuit these actions and conceptualize the work as duration, rather than a static presentation. More: http://www.williamsjeff.blogspot.com/

SWAP: Davor Sanvincenti (Zagreb, Croatia)
  • Davor Sanvincenti (b.1979) is a multimedia artist who is specifically interested in a field of audiovisual research and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His artistic practice takes shape in the variety of media ? film and video, photography, physical light and sound installations and live media performances. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. More: http://www.messmatik.net/

The Vault: Selected Video and Sound Art

February 1 ? March 29, 2013
R&D: Jon Rubin (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • Titled "The Foreigner," Rubin's project would recruit citizens of Cleveland to function as physical avatars or proxies for foreign citizens living in countries the U.S. is engaged in conflict with, including Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. Through simple audio/video chat technology each Cleveland proxy would be connected live to a foreign citizen. The foreigner would then speak only to the proxy (through an ear piece) and direct them, as they walked through various public spaces, in who to approach and what to say. More: http://www.jonrubin.net/

SWAP: Jimmy Kuehnle (Cleveland Heights, OH)
  • Jimmy Kuehnle is well known for his giant inflatable sculptures that he wears and moves around cities interacting with passers-by. In 2008, Jimmy researched public art and practiced sculpture as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan. His recent work features public performance treks through rural and urban cities in the U.S. such as Chicago, Detroit, Austin, St. Louis, Cincinnati, San Antonio, Dallas, and New York as well as international performances in Japan, Italy, and Finland. He worked as a resident artist at Sculpture Space, Albion College, and Atelj

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