November 16 - December 21, 2005
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 16, 6-9pm

MAIN SPACE: Empty Space With Exciting Events

From November 16 through December 21, 2005, Artists Space will present Empty Space With Exciting Events, an exhibition that will transform the gallery into a stage for daily action, performances, and concerts. For the duration of the show, Artists Space's main gallery will be kept empty and will come to life each evening with an extensive series of live performances, lectures, and events. On Wednesday nights, different artists' bands will perform. Meanwhile, the project Spaces will feature individual projects that connect to the topic of performance, either in form, subjuct matter, or elective affinity.

Empty Space With Exciting Events is presented in partnership with PERFORMA 05: THE PERFORMANCE BIENNIAL

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24 days/evenings total (Thanksgiving weekend closed)

PROJECT SPACES:

Robert Arndt: Lines for the Next Exhibition

Presented on a large structure evocative of billboards and cinematic screens, Robert Arndt’s installation, Lines for the Next Exhibition, dramatically and humorously explores the act of performance while drawing attention to the dual status of film as both a document and a staged event. Seemingly narrative at the start, in its final scene the work becomes a meditation on acting and artifice.

Fatima Hoang: …bowl like no one is watching

Fatima Hoang presents a tangled heap of monitors and DVD players which blast hit rock tunes in rotation and feature the artists playing air guitar at home, in galleries, and in industrial wastelands. This playful activity, which the artist masters with great dexterity, becomes a way for him to claim the sites he occupies.

Kevin McCarty: Chameleon Club

Part punk concert venue and part gay dance club, the Chameleon Club in Dayton, Ohio holds two cultures in close yet distant proximity. Belonging neither to one nor the other but documenting both, Kevin McCarty draws on his experiences at the club to record similar venues in Los Angeles.

Quisqueya Henriquez: Intertextualidad

Curated by René Morales as part of the Emerging Curator Series. Situated squarely between object and performance, Quisqueya Henriquez’s work elicits a variety of visceral sensations, with the ultimate aim of shortening the cultural and psychological distances between the Caribbean and the wider world. Intertextualidad underscores the increasing interpenetration of the rural and the urban, the third world and the first.

Artists Space Encores: Video documents of historic performances at Artists Space

For this Project Space, we show a selection of video documentations of historic performances at Artists Space, from the 1970s to the present. Relive, review, and re-experience these once radical, magical, and whimsical acts of Artists Space history.