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TEN BY TEN, Edition Two

Initiating a new program as an arena for social exchange in March 2007

http://www.uber.com/art

Ten by Ten, the portfolio exhibition from LAXART and Uber.com, launched in February 2007 as a new venue for creators and consumers of contemporary art. This March sees the second edition of Ten by Ten and the extension of its core ideology into a cluster of new programs under the rubric of Uber Art.

Ten by Ten is a departure from conventional art discourse. It’s a monthly dialogue wherein artists throw open the doors to their virtual portfolio of work and our writers take it in, producing commentaries that open poetic new perspectives and provide critical insight into the connotative and denotative layers of meaning found within. It’s an opportunity for anyone to find exposure to new art that they can comment on directly, or add to the collection of videos, personal photography and visual links in their own Uber portfolio.

This March Ten by Ten contributor and Los Angeles-based art critic Shana Nys Dambrot joins Uber Art as a blogger and commentator. We’ll be debuting more programs over the course of the month – and throughout 2007 – that offer writers, artists, curators and spectators the chance to access art and be included in the process of creation, proliferation and consumption.

Ten by Ten is an open call, but there’s only one way to be considered: Join Uber.com, add LAXART as a friend and submit your portfolio for the exhibition.

The second edition of Ten by Ten includes reviews and reflection on a new class of emerging talent in the fields of drawing, sculpture, painting and video art.

Jeffrey Uslip on Ian Arenas
Anjali Gupta on Lucas Blalock
Aram Moshayedi on Cindy Santos Bravo
Gean Moreno on Willia Drew
Lauri Firstenberg on Diana Sofia Estrada
Daniel Chamberlin on Robert Gutierrez
Laura Richard Janku on Nate Larson
Andrew Berardini on Kim Schoenstadt
Shana Nys Dambrot on Mark Verabioff
Shana Nys Dambrot on Liat Yossifor

About LAXART: Responding to Los Angeles’ cultural climate, LAXART questions given contexts for the exhibition of contemporary art, architecture and design. With a renewed vision for the potential of interdisciplinary discussion and interaction and for the production and exhibition of new exploratory work. LAXART offers a space for provocation, dialogue and confrontation by practices on the ground in LA and abroad. LAXART is a hub for artists based on flexibility, transition, spontaneity and change. The space responds to an urgency and obligation to provide and accessible exhibition space for contemporary artists, architects and designers.

March 17 5-6pm
Campari Talks at LAXART
Tom Crow in conversation with Thomas Lawson
rsvp: office@laxart.org
must be 21 and over to attend

March 17th 7-9pm
opening reception
Thomas Lawson: History Painting

March 17th 7-9pm
Performance
Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundours: On a Porch

Exhibitions run March 17- April 28, 2007

LAXART 2640 S. La Cienega Blvd LA CA 90034

About Uber.com: Uber is a new way to experience art, information and entertainment. We’re an artist-driven network of musicians, makers and discerning media users coming together to develop an optimized interface to the world of visual art, music, video and web-based detritus.

To enjoy Ten by Ten go to http://www.uber.com/art

For more information on LAXART programming http://www.laxart.org

For more information go to: http://www.laxart.org

The Kitchen

JUST KICK IT TILL IT BREAKS

March 8 – April 28, 2007

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York

The Kitchen is pleased to present Just Kick It Till It Breaks, a group exhibition featuring works by Fia Backström, Carol Bove, Bozidar Brazda, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Adam Helms, Scott Hug, Corey McCorkle, Dave McKenzie, Josephine Meckseper, Michael Phelan, and Meredyth Sparks. The exhibition is curated by Executive Director and Chief Curator Debra Singer and Assistant Curator Matthew Lyons.

In response to a moment in America marked by tepid civic activism, widespread conservatism, and rampant consumerism, the artists in this exhibition create works in which the “political” is addressed indirectly through allegorical approaches and subtle contextual displacements. Borrowing visual idioms from the realms of advertising, the media, and interior design, these artists locate tangential points of protest that are slyly complicit with the terms of capitalism they often seek to undermine. At the same time, they investigate romanticized notions of outlaw culture and underground movements, questioning whether any position of political resistance remains out of reach of commercial co-optation.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the following FREE performances and events are being organized:

- Seth Price and Kelley Walker (Thursday, March 29, 8pm)
- Bozidar Brazda: Bread (Saturday, April 7, 7pm)
- Ross Cisneros: First as Pilgrims, Then as Pilots (Thursday, April 12, 7pm)
- An evening with Scott Hug’s publication K48 (Tuesday, April 24, 7pm)

Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 12 to 6pm and Saturday, 11am to 6pm

This exhibition is made possible with generous support from Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.255.5793 x 11
http://www.thekitchen.org

ABOUT THE KITCHEN

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit performance and exhibition spaces, showing experimental work by innovative artists, both emerging and established. Programs range from dance, music, and theatrical performances to video and media arts exhibitions to literary events, film screenings, and artists’ talks. Since its inception in 1971, The Kitchen has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country and has helped launch the careers of many artists who have gone on to worldwide prominence.

For more information go to: http://www.thekitchen.org

OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NORWAY

[OCA, NYC]
25 Broadway
New York, 10004
NY, USA

About [OCA, NYC]:

[OCA, NYC] is an experimental platform launched by The Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo in an aim to initiate projects, host seminars, talks, and screenings with an effort to draw from the resources and network already available in New York City.

Physically lodged within the accompanying office of the architecture firm of Snøhetta in the historical Cunard Cruise Lines building (and the former Police Museum), [OCA, NYC] legitimately squats space to act as an alternative and innovative international venue for contemporary art, culture and discourse.

The office/workshop is located on the 2nd Floor of 25 Broadway, adjacent to Battery Park. Due to entrance logistics, attendance to all events requires a prior R.S.V.P. to Ida Ghosh at ida@oca.no. It would be helpful to receive your final R.S.V.P. by the 5th of March.

Entrance is free and Fjellbekk and Hylleblomst will be served at all events.

March:

Tuesday, 6 March at 18:00
Ina Blom + Gardar Eide Einarsson: On Black and White

Critic, curator and academic Ina Blom joins New York based artist Gardar Eide Einarsson to talk about ways of addressing contemporary art beyond the deadlock of "political" content versus "formalist" visual style. The talk takes its starting point in Ina Blom’s research on the possibility of a new approach to the style question in relation to the social and site-specific practices of contemporary art, as well as Einarsson’s mostly monochrome black and stylized works that handle ideas and practices connected with, among other things, political extremism. Importantly, "style" here is not approached as an attribute of artworks or individual artists or "schools". Style is, rather, discussed as a social site, in the sense that the difficult "questions of style" that are at work in contemporary culture opens onto discussions concerning the contemporary production of sociality. The talk will also focus on the work of other artists wh
o could be said to approach style as a social site.

Wednesday, 7 March at 18:00

Lene Berg: "Gentlemen and Arseholes": Encounter and the Conspiracy of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (1950-1967)

Norwegian filmmaker and artist Lene Berg premieres the video "The Man in the Background" and launches her publication, "Gentlemen and Arseholes", two parts of one project about art and propaganda during the Cold War. Berg’s project focuses on the cultural journal Encounter that had been founded and distributed in 1953 as one of the undertakings of the Congress of Cultural Freedom (1957–1967). Berg’s approach calls into question what is defined as a "liberal conspiracy" and what is otherwise deemed a successful state sponsored cultural effort carried out by a power intelligence agency. The project is to follow at Midway in Minneapolis in mid March.

Thursday, 8 March at 18:00
Hanne Mugaas + Cory Arcangel: Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)

Mugaas and Arcangel are concerned with the Internet and its possibilities for archiving and distributing information. Art history uploaded to the Internet is certainly an alternative one, and often the information available is randomly contextualized and interpreted without any hierarchy or control. Based on user generated content, the Internet has become a unique channel of distribution where the responsibility of interpretation lies in the hands of the receiver and his/her ability to sort out and analyze the given information. For this event, Mugaas and Arcangel will sort and collect images, video, and audio from the Internet in order to discern where art and art history on the web is situated right now. The findings will culminate in a video screening presented with a live directors commentary. Through this event, the intention is to discuss for better or worse how art is changed by this situation, and in turn how the Internet is changing our perception of art.

[OCA, NYC] is open according to announced schedule. For further information, please check http://www.oca.no or contact: siri@oca.no.

For more information go to: http://www.oca.no