EVENING AT THE COLONY presents: 7 PM Mollie Goldstrom, Sarah Smith and Jaime Knight PIZZA SPEAKEASY 8 PM Kuldeep Singh and David Dunlap Another Ziggurat Performed on a hand woven rug and involving a gong, singing along, fire lamps “and tons more”, the performances addresses issues of rebirth, condensation and accumulation. 8.45 PM Jan Philipp Sexauer Über allen Gipfeln ist ruh A task performed by some members of the audience 9 PM Hans Breder Foundation presents Nancy Spero (1985) with Barbara Welch Breder World Premiere of an interview-video with Nancy Spero from 1985 10 PM Jaime Knight “This Might Be Just The Place” Prompted by the similarities in activism concerning the overarching dread of nuclear holocaust and the AIDS crisis of the late seventies and early eighties, This Might Be Just The Place attempts to reify this historical period in which the connective potential of the dance floor became reinvented in the anti-identitarian politics of social action of groups like ACTUP. Using sculpture, drawing, performance, music and video Jaime Knight has created an installation that asks the viewer to question their relationship to the freedom felt in the relational field of the dance floor, where bodies collide and inhibitions are lost, and perform an act of ecstatic vulnerability through a choice of radical isolation. For more information about EATC, head over to HERE
JEREMY LUNDQUIST Jeremy is exhibiting a series of etchings produced during this fellowship that directly reproduce, alter and layer fragments of the Joint Chief of Staff's diagram, "Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics.” The work is a critique of the current military and diplomatic strategy of the U.S. in Afghanistan while examining the futility of diagramming the chaos of war. The process involves printing each section from a single plate as information is built up and then scraped away. Jeremy pulls prints along the away as text and image materialize, linger, and disappear. This technique helps provide viewers the opportunity to consider and question how history and policy is constructed. HARTMUT AUSTEN For this exhibition, Austen is presenting a selection of drawings and paintings that he has produced in the past year in Iowa City. While he investigates the notion of “boundaries” in paintings that often appear colorful and expressive, his drawings refer more openly to their photographic or cinematographic sources. Made of carefully layered ink washes, the drawings convey a more introspective mood, in which architectural elements play a prominent role. A catalog with 16 pages documenting the works by Lundquist and Austen will be published in May. Beginning February 23, twenty-eight members of the University of Iowa Studio Art faculty will have current works on view at the Figge. Curated by UIMA Director Sean O’Harrow, the show will include graphic design, 3-D design, sculpture, painting, printmaking, intermedia, ceramics, photography, jewelry and metalwork, drawing and multimedia. Last night I hosted an event titled Evening at the Colony. Various artists, a musician/architect and a journalist from the US and Europe were asked to send their instructions for an object or task to me via email that the guests in Iowa City were creating or performing throughout the evening on their behalf.
An online documentation of the evening can be accessed at www.eveningathecolony.weebly.com Hans Breder, who after studying with Willem Grimm at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg came to New York in 1964 and in '68 started the Intermedia and Video Art Program at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa, is going to be subject of two exhibitions in Germany.
The first, titled "35 Jahre mit Hans Breder", will be at Hachmeister Galerie in Münster from January 26 through March 9 and present paintings, photographs, objects and videos from various years. The Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U will present the retrospective exhibition "Hans Breder - Kollisionsfelder" (fields of collision) from February 1 through April 1 and concentrate on film, video, installation and photographic works from the past four decades. So far so good.
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AuthorHartmut Austen is a painter and educator currently based in the Boston area. Archives
February 2023
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