“In the Elements” @ Kentler International Drawing Space

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VIEW FILES: In the Elements
Curated by Sallie Mize
in conjunction with In the Elements: Selections from the Kentler FlatfilesNovember 11 – December 18, 2022ARTISTS: Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Chris Gonyea, James Jack, Ellen Kahn, Hilary Lorenz, LUCE, Kate McGloughlin, Margaret Neill, Jaanika Peerna, Josette Urso

The VIEW FILES are a publicly accessible, interactive flat file unit located in Kentler’s front gallery space. Visitors are invited to open and explore the drawers, revealing artworks related to the exhibition on view. This initiative offers direct engagement with the Flatfiles, gives added exposure to artists, and adds an element of surprise to our shows.

THE KENTLER FLATFILES
The Kentler Flatfiles have been an essential element of Kentler International Drawing Space since its founding in 1990. A collection of over 2,000 artworks by 290 local, national and international artists, this living archive represents the incredible breadth and diversity found in contemporary drawings and works on paper today. Selections from the Flatfiles are regularly presented in guest-curated exhibitions at Kentler and in traveling shows.

Flatfile works are held on consignment in Kentler’s showroom and are available to the public for viewing and purchase. “Focus on the Flatfiles” is a rotating selection of works on view in our front gallery space. To schedule a viewing appointment in our Flatfiles showroom or inquire about prices, please contact the gallery.

The Flatfiles Digital Archive, providing full online access to the collection, was awarded an ArtWorks grant by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2015.

https://kentlergallery.org/Detail/exhibitions/531

 

 

“Composting Knowledge” @ lumbung: documenta fifteen

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Its participants are active in the creation of such actions through their own unique perspectives that embrace cooperative, non-hierarchical, neighborhood centered principles. Composting Knowledge aims to build a supporting system for these initiatives to cooperate in engaging and critical ways.

Currently the composting network reunites over twenty participants from Kassel, Tokyo, Sofia, Holualoa, Singapore, Beirut, Zurich, Toronto, Stockholm, and London, who are engaging with own capacity and pace in the spread, research and activation of the topics exchanged within the network by challenging their own practice, involving local communities and institutional partners.

The network is growing. Current members are:

  • Färgfabriken, Stockholm
  • Global Art Practice, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
  • ICA-Sofia, Sofia
  • James Jack & Donkey Mill Art Center, Hawai’i
  • Myvillages, Rural School of Economics, London/Rotterdam/Berlin
  • YCAR (York Center for Asian Research), Toronto
  • Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb: OnCurating.org & Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK
  • knowbotiqs, Zurich
  • Sandra Schäfer, Joseph Rustom, and students, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich and Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Beirut

Quote by ruangrupa:

“Composting is growing. It’s a process which calls for a change in our understanding of the subject of knowledge, an uncontrolled mutation of ingredients, which transcend a cartesian or logical system in the production of experiences, and facts but instead transform every material collected in fertile soil for our community. As the water is part of every living being and primal, juicy engine for the rotting activity, so the compostable transformation is nourished by every idea, intervention, activity and contribution by withdrawing from disciplines and one-sided knowledge and expertise forms. Each person is welcomed to participate as a cultivator, contributing with awareness to a multi-ingredients compostable practice. The material for a florid mixture is brought from friends, are those guests, one-time visitors, students, researchers, from all corners of the globe, each one will be a grower and harvester of an abundant, yet non-definable knowledge pot. For the shared growth of yet unknown knowledgeable terrains we invite you to contribute to this compost pot.”

Composting Knowledge

“Dirt Restaurant” @ Setouchi Triennale 2022

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Setouchi Dirt Restaurant

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(James Jack, Shotaro Yoshino & Yoshitaka Nanjo)

Fall 2022

A new artwork based on storied flavors of dirt on Takamijima with research on Megijima, Shodoshima and other islands in Setouchi. Video released during summer triennial season in Takamatsu and Tadotsu along with event held in fall season 9 October on Takamijima. Trailer preview available here stay tuned for additional details on the Setouchi Triennale website and YouTube channel.

作品No. [E17]

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瀬戸内の「土」を味わう

土の研究や土食文化の発信をおこなう南条嘉毅、James Jack、吉野祥太郎によるコレクティブが構想中の、瀬戸内の「土」を食べる前代未聞のプロジェクトを紹介するイベントを開催。

※詳細は決まり次第HPにてお知らせします

https://www1.setouchi-artfest.jp/en/artworks-artists/artworks/takamijima/465.html