Recipes for an Encounter (Fall
2009) functions as a literary or discursive extension to the group
exhibition "Kits for an Encounter" that was on view at
Western Front April 25 to May 31, 2008. As instructions that foretell
of future
culinary moments based on those from the past, the act of writing
a recipe always occurs as a deliberate pause, temporally displaced
from
its actuation.
Consider, for example, computer viruses whose execution might result
in a technological disaster; the architectural plans for a utopian
city based on its existing infrastructural
and schematological remains; instructions on making the ideal Molotov Cocktail;
or preparatory directions for the antidote to a life-threatening poison that
is otherwise tenuously passed through speech over millennia. For these written
constitutions that are intended to change or preserve the future, their adherence
only enunciates the interpretive space between writing and enactment. Through
an interdisciplinary lens that brings together art, architecture, literature,
and political science, "Recipes for an Encounter" explores the anticipatory
nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place,
be consumed.
Book Launches
Tues Jan 26, 2010, 7-9
pm:
Book Launch at READ
Bookstore, Emily Carr (Vancouver)
with Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, Marisa Jahn, Glenn Lewis, Kristina Podesva & Alan McConchie
Thurs Jan 28, 2010,
6:30 pm:
Book Launch at Southern Exposure (San
Francisco)
3030 20th Street, San Francicsco, CA 94110
with Center for Tactical Magic, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, Marisa Jahn, Matt Volla, Jerome Waag
Sat Jan 30, 2010, 12-3
pm:
Workshop at Studio
for Urban Projects (San Francisco)
3579 17th Street at Guerrero
with Larry Bogad, Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine, and Marisa Jahn
Thurs March 11, 2010,
7 pm:
as part of Extra-curricular:
Between Art & Pedagogy 2, presented by the JMB
Gallery at Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street
West, Toronto, M6H 1N7
with Adrian Blackwell, Dave Dyment, Berin Golonu, Marisa Jahn, Candice Hopkins,
Kristina Lee Podesva, and
Alex
Snukal
Sat March 13, 2010, 6-8pm:
EFA Project Space (323 West 39th St. b/w 8th and 9th Aves.) in conjunction with
the Closing Reception of 'Companion' (New
York City) with Berin Golonu, Marisa Jahn, Karen Hakobian, Candice Hopkins
with live music by Ferrum Virgo (Tianna Kennedy and Hannah Marcus, others
TBA) performing 'Earlier Today' |
Editors: Marisa Jahn,
Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins
Publishers: Western Front & REV-
Contributors:
Lisa Anne Auerbach
Adrian Blackwell
Center for Tactical Magic
Max Goldfarb
Karen Hakobian
Janice Kerbel
LIGNA
Jaime O’Shea
Kristina Lee Podesva & Alan McConchie
Vahida Ramujkic
Francisco J. Ricardo
The Shakers of Enfield
Noa Treister
Matt Volla
Sharif Waked & Molly Keogh Support: Western Front, Pond: art, activism, and ideas, REV-, MIT
Media Lab Tangible Media Group, Luke Lozier (Bibliopolis), Southern Exposure,
READ Bookstore (Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design)
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Purchase the book
in New York from Printed
Matter, Eyebeam
Atelier, or from their storefront. In San Francisco
buy it at Needles & Pens, Electric
Works, City
Lights Bookstore, or Modern
Times. Order the book online from Printed
Matter (New York City). or Art
Metropole (Toronto).
Press:
Leaverton,
Michael.
"Open Source." SF Weekly. (1/20/2010)
Beard,
Dena. Book Review. Art Practical, v.11: Instigators. (3/26/2010)
"Readings."
Canadian Art. (Fall/2010)
Wong
Yap, Christina. "From New York: Recipes for an Encounter. Art Practical. (9/2010)
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Join artists, writers,
and co-editors to launch the new book Recipes for an Encounter, a
compendium of recipes, instructionals,
diagrams, scores and texts that function as catalysts for various types
of encounters. In Recipes for an Encounter, readers are invited to
complete the work by testing out the recipes to yield infinitely
varied outcomes.
Contributors to the book and other artists will share their recipes
in a night of interactive performances. At each book launch, co-editors
Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, and Marisa Jahn, will narrate a brief
history of art works disseminated as recipes.
In Vancouver on Tuesday,
January 26th, join artists Glenn Lewis, Kristina Podesva & Alan McConcie
for the performance of their recipes.
In San Francisco on Thursday, January
28th, The Center for Tactical Magic will demonstrate spellbinding techniques
of sorcery, seduction and spectacle, Matt Volla will lead group exercises
in mimesis and empathy, and local chef Jerome Waag will involve the audience
in preparing cakes made form wild fennel gleaned from the margins of
the city.
On Saturday January 30th, a workshop will feature an exercise
by Michael Swaine in stopping time to meet the speed of the city with
slowness, and another exercise in preparing a recipe written by Frederick
Douglas on how American slaves prepared ‘ash cakes.’ Larry
Bogad will
show examples of tactical performance and guide participants in creative
action planning and historical role-playing. Amy Franceschini’s exercise
will remain top-secret until the day of the workshop.
In Toronto on Thursday March 11th, the launch
will take place
as
a
public
component
of Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy 2, a conference from March
8-11, 2010 organized by JMB Gallery Curator-in-Residence Maiko
Tanaka.
The launch will feature presentations by the editors along with Kristina
Lee Podesva, Dave Dyment, and Alex
Snukal. A presentation by architect and artist Adrian
Blackwell, will discuss his piece, Model for a Public
Space,
an anti-hierarchical seating
structure
designed
to stimulate dialogue
and unique social relations, which will be installed in the Hart House
Reading Room.
In New York on Saturday March 13, the book launch will coincide
with the closing reception of 'Companion,' an exhibition curated by REV- for
EFA Project Space and will feature presentations by the editors along with Karen
Hakobian,
and live music by Ferrum Virgo (Tianna Kennedy and Hannah
Marcus,
others TBA) performing 'Earlier Today.'
Bios of participants for Workshops & Launches
Larry M. Bogad (Associate Professor, University of California at Davis)
is an author, performer, and activist. His book, Electoral Guerrilla
Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, is a study of performance
artists who run for public office as a prank. Bogad works on the intersection
between art and activism, and on the role of humor and imagination
in organizing social movements. He has performed in film, theatre,
and street theatre across North America and the UK. His writings have
appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, Research
In Drama Education, Red Pepper, Fifth Estate, Radical Society, The
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, International Brecht Society’s Communications,
and the collections Place and Performance, A Boal Companion, The Art
and Cultural Politics of Carnival, and Images of Mental Illness Through
Text and Performance.
Adrian Blackwell is a visual artist, architectural and urban designer
whose work focuses on the question of equality within capitalist urban
development. His work has been exhibited at artist-run centers and
museums across Canada, at the 2005 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture,
Shenzhen and at the 2006 Nuit Blanche, Toronto. His published texts
include Unboxed: Engagements in Social Space which he co-edited with
Jen Budney, as well as selected writing published in Urban China, Architecture
and Ideas, and Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics
of Space. In 2007, Blackwell won the Nathan Phillips Square design
competition in collaboration with PLANT Architect Inc., Shore Tilbe
Irwin and Partners, and Peter Lindsay Schaudt. In 2009, he will be
designing a garden for the International Garden Festival, Métis, in
collaboration with Jane Hutton. He is a member of the Toronto School
of Creativity and Inquiry and the editorial collective of SCAPEGOAT
Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. He has taught architecture
and Urban Design at the University of Toronto since 1997 and has been
a visiting professor at Chongqing University and the University of
Michigan.
Dave Dyment is an artist, writer and curator, living and working in
Toronto. He was the Director of Programming at Mercer Union from 2004 to 2008,
where his exhibitions included Infinity Etc and Seducing Down the Door. Prior
to that, he spent five years at Art Metropole where he presented small retrospectives
of artists such as Yoko Ono, Allen Ruppersberg, Candyass, Dick Higgins, and Jenny
Holzer. He has also presented curatorial projects at the Harbourfront Centre,
YYZ Artists Outlet and 15+ in Calgary. His writings have appeared in C Magazine,
Mix Magazine, Lola and a number of exhibition catalogues. His own artwork mines
sound and pop culture for shared associations and alternate meanings, and has
been shown across the country.
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator. Her work manifests “on” and “offline” in
the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories,
and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the
social, political and economic systems we live in. Her recent projects,
Victory Gardens and Lunchbox Laboratory highlight routines in daily
life as a conduit through which people participate in research, acitivism
and sustainable practices. Amy founded the collective Futurefarmers
in 1995, and co-founded Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative
work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM,
Whitney Museum, NYMOMA, Edith Russ Site for New Media and SFMOMA.
Berin Golonu is a doctoral student in the Visual and Cultural Studies
program at the University of Rochester. As Associate Curator of Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco from 2003 to 2008, she curated
and co-curated close to a dozen exhibitions, including The Gatherers:
Greening Our Urban Spheres (2008); The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics
(2008); Bay Area Now (2004 and 2008); The Zine UnBound (2005); a series
of exhibitions highlighting collective activity titled Peer Pleasure
(2006), and Underplayed: A Mix-Tape of Music-Based Videos (2006). Her
feature articles and reviews have appeared in Afterimage, Aperture,
ArtinAmericamagazine. com, Art Nexus, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Contemporary,
frieze, Sculpture, and Zing Magazine. Golonu holds an MA from the Visual
and Critical Studies Program at CCA.
Candice Hopkins is the Sobey Curatorial Resident at the National Gallery
of Canada and is the former Director/Curator of Exhibitions at the
Western Front, Vancouver, where she recently curated exhibitions on
the themes of networks and art, architecture and disaster, and time
and obsolescence (with Jonathan Middleton). She has an MA from the
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY. Her writing is featured
in the journal Leonardo, www.horizonzero.ca, C Magazine, FUSE Magazine
and in Reinventing Radio: Aspects of Radio as Art, Campsites, Informal
Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture, and Making a Noise!
Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community.
The Center for Tactical Magic is inspired by studies with a private
investigator, a magician, and a ninja, and formed in 2000 by Aaron
Gach as a non-profit organization
dedicated to the coalescence of art, technology, magic, and positive social
change. Working across barriers of art, design, architecture, and community
service, the CTM’s collaborations have involved hypnotists, locksmiths, aquatic biologists, members of the Black
Panther Party, radical ecologists, and the American Red Cross to name a few. Frequently infiltrating multiple spheres of influence, the Center for Tactical Magic continues to mix elements of subculture, social politics, and
revelry into a powerful potion.
Marisa Jahn, of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, is an artist/writer/activist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes systems. In 2009, Jahn co-founded REV- (www.rev-it.org), a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. From 2000-2009, Jahn co-directed Pond: art, activism, & ideas, an organization dedicated to experimental public art. Her work has been presented in public spaces and venues such as the MIT Museum, Cambridge; Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; ISEA/Zero One, San Jose; Eyebeam, New York; MOCA, Miami; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA). She is currently editing a book entitled ‘byproducts:
On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices.’
Tianna Kennedy's experiments in transmission began as monthly improvisatory radio broadcasts in Bushwick, Brooklyn and now include performances, installations, sculpture, sound, video, writing and teaching. Kennedy was a founding member of the August Sound Coalition, an autonomous media project, which, in one manifestation, created a popular Art and Action Radio station coincident with the 2004 Republican National Convention and protests in New York City, and subsequently received a Best of 2004 music in Art
Forum. Kennedy is active in the New York experimental music scene both as an organizer and as a musician. According to Time Out her ensembles are 'marked by chance and joy,' and collectively they are 'about as predictable as chimps in a mall.' Tianna has worked with producers such as Dave Sitek and Jim Waters. Her current collaborators and bands include: Stars Like Fleas, Ferrum Virgo, Daniel Carter Quartet, Mike Wexler, Hannah
Marcus, Zeke Healy, Foxy Propositions (with Kevin Shea), and Twisty Cat. Kennedy has a Masters in Perfromance Studies from New York University.
Kristina Lee Podesva is an artist, curator, and writer based in Vancouver,
Canada. She is the founder of colourschool, a free school within a school dedicated
to the speculative and collaborative study of five colours (white, black, red,
yellow, and brown) and co-founder of Cornershop Projects, an open framework
for engaging with economic exchange in its myriad forms. Her work has appeared
in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In between things,
she is an editor at The Fillip Review, a publication of contemporary art, culture,
and ideas.
Born in 1935, artist Glenn Lewis graduated from the Vancouver School of Art
(now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) in 1958 and received a teaching
certificate from University of British Columbia in 1959. Lewis was an active
member of the avant-garde art scene in Vancouver during the 1960s and was one
of the co-founders of the Western Front. In addition, Lewis was head of the
Media Arts Section of the Canada Council (1987-1990). Performances and group
exhibitions include Floor Piece (1968), Japanese Pickled Cabbage (1969), Taping
of the International Art Critics (with Michael Morris, 1970), participation
in international correspondence activity (1970-1972), The Intermedia Society
(1995), and Thrown (2004).
Alan McConchie is a computer programmer and Master of Science candidate in
the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His current
research explores the critical and emancipatory potential of web mashups and
mapping on the internet. He is the author of the popular linguistic mapsite
PopVsSoda.com. In addition to the 09 F9 Archive, Podesva and McConchie’s online
projects include GoogleEmotionalIndex.com and YouAreHereBetweenUs.com.
Alex Snukal is an artist, musician and writer who performs regularly
as part of Awesome, Animal Monster and New Feelings.
Michael Swaine is an artist and inventor dedicated to working
in the community. Swaine’s Reap What You Sew Generosity Project involved him
pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated
sewing machine on it
through the streets of San Francisco. For two weeks he stopped to sew for the
homeless, for celebrities and for ordinary people - without distinction. Since
1999, Swaine has collaborated on numerous projects with Amy Franceschini as
part of the artists collective Futurefarmers. His work has been exhibited at
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure Gallery and Headlands Center
for the Arts.
Matt Volla is a musician and artist whose work investigates the relationship
between inscription and enactment. His work often involves inventing new ways
to annotate everyday patterns and scripts that suggest new choreographies.
Volla attributes his inspiration to predecessors such as Fluxus artists Lamonte
Young, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, and Pauline Oliveros, as well as the Situationists,
whose cartographic experiments foreground the limits of inscription.
Jerome Waag is an artist living in San Francisco who also works as a chef at
Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley CA. His work borrows from performance and
installation art to create frames for social interaction. He is part of the
collaborative OPENrestaurant, an experimental restaurant relying on art tpractices
to explore the issues associated with the production, distribution and consumption
of food.
ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS
Based in New York, REV- is a non-profit organization that furthers socially-engaged
art, design, and pedagogy. REV- produces projects that fuse disciplines, foster
diversity, elicit participation, and vary in form (workshops, publications,
exhibitions, design objects, etc.). Engaged with different communities and
groups, REV-‘s projects involve collaborative production, resource-sharing, and a commitment to the process as political gesture. The organization derives its name from both the colloquial expression “to rev” a vehicle and the prefix “rev-“ which means to turn—as
in, revolver, revolution, revolt, revere, irreverent, etc. www.rev-it.org
The Western Front Society is one of Canada’s first artist-run-centres. For
over 30 years, it has developed an international reputation as a centre for
experimental art practice and performance. Five programs focus on the production
and presentation of exhibitions, performance art, new music, media art, and
an arts magazine. www.front.bc.ca
Opportunities for creative expression are integral to a healthy society. Southern Exposure's unique programs nurture a broad range of innovative, risk-taking contemporary art in an accessible environment. As an artist-run organization, Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences, and serves as a forum and resource center providing extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities. www.soex.org
Founded in 2006, the Studio for Urban Projects is an artist collaborative that
perceives art as a means of advancing civic engagement and furthering public
dialogue. The Studio’s interdisciplinary and research-based projects aim to
provoke change by re-framing our perceptions of the city and physically transforming
elements of the built environment. Engaging the broad themes of ecology and
urbanism, our projects have taken the form of audio tours, interactive websites,
exhibitions, and architectural environments. Through these projects we reflect
upon the cultural dynamics that shape our urban landscapes. www. Studioforurbanprojects.org
Organized and curated by Maiko Tanaka, Curator-in-Residence, JMB Gallery, Extra-curricular:
Between Art & Pedagogy, is an international conference and curatorial project exploring the relationship between art, education, audience development, and activism. Taking place at Hart House, University of Toronto and off-site locations and presented by the JMB Gallery, Extra-curricular will take place in two parts: I.Between Institutions (February 15-19, 2010) and II. Beyond Institutions (March 8 11,
2010). It will be accompanied by off-site workshops, installations,screenings,
and residencies by internationally renowned artists, educators, and researchers.
Confirmed International speakers and artists include Annette Krauss (Utrecht,
Netherlands), Xu Tan (Guangzhou, China), and Carmen Morsch (Zurich, Switzerland).
www.extra-curricular.info |
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