ARTISTS WORLDWIDE RESPOND TO THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE
GULF COAST OF MEXICO
TRANSNATIONAL TEMPS
SPILL>>FORWARD
July 30 – September 21, 2010
EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 19
Artists Talk: Wednesday, August 11, 6:30pm-8pm
At MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, entrance on 102nd Street
Gallery Hours: Thursday and Friday, 2pm – 6pm
As media attention wanes, the impact of British Petroleum’s Deep Horizon, off-shore drilling disaster continues to unfold. Artists worldwide respond to this new ecological catastrophe in a group show organized by Transnational Temps, an arts collective exploring the interstices of art, ecology and technology. http://transnationaltemps.net/ . For Andy Deck, one of the founding members of Transnational Temps and the curator of the show, “After a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this exhibition of Earth Art for the 21st Century.“
Now hidden from view by BP’s media campaigns and other de facto censoring actions, the images of oil-covered birds struggling to breathe and fly, oil and dispersant-coated fish, dolphins and whales washing up dead while most sink to the ocean floor, have all but vanished. Partially filling the void are the artists showing here who are recreating topographies; mapping the course of a deadly shadow over our shores and waters; and reinterpreting the sea, its rising levels and largesse, before the vicissitudes of man and nature.
ABOUT TRANSNATIONAL TEMPS
Transnational Temps is an international arts collective concerned with ecology, sustainability, and media. Since its formation in 2001 it has produced a series of critically acclaimed works and exhibitions under the banner Earth Art for the 21st Century. Working primarily from Europe and the United States, works to date have emphasized participation, tactical media, and spanning the sometimes awkward divide between activist advocacy and aesthetics. http://TransnationalTemps.net
ABOUT MEDIANOCHE
MediaNoche is the place where art, technology and community converge. We offer artists working in new media exhibition space and residencies in order to provoke a dialogue that blurs all lines of marginality and alterity. Unique among art and technology groups, MediaNoche is directly linked to the oldest Latino community of New York City, Spanish Harlem, and has showcased a roster of local and international new media artists. http://medianoche.us
EXHIBITION ARTISTS
• Fred Adam
• Jesus Andres
• Matusa Barros
• Chris Basmajian
• Eric Benson
• Sarah Boothroyd
• Collette Broeders
• Sabina Antón Cardenal
• Guillermo Hermosilla Cruzat
• Christopher Dascher
• Sereal Designers
• Maria-Gracia Donoso
• Jessica Eik
• Terri Garland
• Alex George
• Tim Geers
• Virginia González
• Gene Gort
• Gratuitous Art Films
• Henry Gwiazda
• Andrew E. Johnson
• Adrienne Klein
• Geoffrey Michael Krawczyk
• Irad Lee
• Adrián Madrid
• Patrick Mathieu
• Cristina Osuna Migueles
• Luke Munn
• Veronica Perales
• Ume Remembers
• Russell Ritell
• Alyce Santoro
• Skwarek and Hocking
• Susanne Slavick
• UBERMORGEN.COM and P. W. Teister
This program is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, and individual donors. Special thanks: Hugh Mandeville, Todd Escalona, Eric Wold, Ann Rosetti, Tanya Torres, Juan Nunez, Taina Caragol, Joe Falcon, Yolanda Sanchez, José Valera and other superlative individuals.