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SITE SANTA FE ANNOUNCES LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN CURATORIAL TEAM
FOR SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL EXHIBITION IN 2008
http://www.sitesantafe.org

Laura Steward Heon, Phillips Director of SITE Santa Fe and Lance Fung, SITE’s 2008 Biennial curator, are pleased to announce the 2008 Biennial Curatorial Team. This group of talented visionaries, assembled by Mr. Fung, represents 19 international partner art organizations who will participate in the Seventh International Biennial exhibition, entitled Lucky Number Seven, scheduled to run from June 22 - October 26, 2008. Opening weekend festivities are June 20-22.

In response to Mr. Fung’s invitation, the partner institutions and the curatorial team have created a project with several singular attributes: 1) all emerging artists, 2) all of whom will be making new commissions, 3) all somehow SITE-inspired, and finally, 4) all temporary works of art.

The emerging artists range in age from their twenties through their sixties. All of the works will be created on site, and will presumably be informed by this specific locale, harking back to the first SITE Biennial tradition. Mr. Fung’s concept resists the notion of art as commodity in that the works will cease to exist after the close of the exhibition. Furthermore, much of the show will occur prior to the opening, on the ground in Santa Fe and prior to that, in virtual space, as ideas, proposals, and thoughts are transmitted around the world. Mr. Fung invites the audience to engage in the process, as the core of what we view as art, in this case, is the process itself.

Despite the overwhelmingly unquantifiable and unknown outcomes, SITE is fully supportive of the core elements at work in this risk-taking model and commits its institutional faith and resources into the authentic phenomena of process, experimentation, and collaboration exemplified in Mr. Fung’s idea.

Through the creation of this truly global curatorial team, Mr. Fung raises the bar for collaboration on a world-wide scale. He will make the announcement of the final list of artists in January 2008.

The Lucky Number Seven Curatorial Team is listed below, along with each
curator’s affiliation:

1. Ferran Barenblit, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (CASM), Barcelona, Spain,
2. Iara Boubnova, Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia, Bulgaria
3. Gregory Burke, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
4. Collin Chinnery, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
(Partnering with Centre for International Cultural Exchange)
5. Alexie Glass, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
6. Lukasz Gorczyca & Michal Kaczynski, Stowarzyszenie Integracji Kultury (Association of Cultural Integration), Warsaw, Poland
7. Laura Steward Heon, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
8. Barbara Holub, Secession, Vienna, Austria
9. Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
10. Chus Martinez, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
11. Martina Mazzotta, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milan, Italy
12. Tsukasa Mori and Toshihiro Asai, Art Tower Mito, Japan
13. Joseph Sanchez, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA), Santa Fe, New Mexico,
United States
14. Patrizia Sandretto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
15. Guillermo Santamarina, El Museo Experimental, Mexico City, Mexico
16. Hyunjin Shin, SSamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
17. Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
18. Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
19. William Wells, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

SITE Santa Fe
Since its opening in 1995, SITE‘s mission has been to bring the global contemporary art dialogue to the Southwest region of the US. SITE’s Biennial is known worldwide for its innovation and for showcasing great curators ahead of the rest of the art world. In fact, three of SITE’s six curators have subsequently served as Directors of the Venice Biennale, including Robert Storr in 2007, and a fourth won a MacArthur “Genius” Award.

Contact: Anne Wrinkle
Tel: 505.989.1199 x22/ Fax: 505.989.1188
wrinkle@sitesantafe.org

SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501 USA
http://www.sitesantafe.org

White Box

STREAM
A Unique Multimedia Exhibition of Artists from Portugal
Curated by João Silvério

November 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, November
30, 6-8pm
White Box
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
P: 212.714.2347 / F: 212.714.2354
http://www.whiteboxny.org

PEDRO BARATEIRO / PEDRO CABRAL SANTO / FILIPA CÉSAR / LUISA CUNHA / ALEXANDRE ESTRELA / CRISTINA MATEUS / CARLOS ROQUE / ANDRÉ SIER / JOÃO SIMÕES / MIGUEL SOARES / RUI TOSCANO

[VIDEOBOX] JOÃO LEONARDO

STREAM is an exhibition that will surprise New York audiences, making us reconsider, rethink and re-contextualize global art making and information technology. The selected group of Portuguese artists stretch and stream their particular lenses into outposts of innovative art, be it where their work is made, in New York or elsewhere.

STREAM’s media-based works require a public art space where the art is available in a one-to-one temporal engagement, a viewing that takes place in the context of continual coming and goings, with traffic and a constant flow of visitors — different from a cinema or a concert hall. STREAM is presented as an irregular flux, which overflows its margins and continuously re-establishes its limits.

All are time-based works, moving in various directions, streaming from the artist’s studio to a public space: artworks that fetishize digital media, use video and audio narratives, and display performative aspects inherent to technology.

White Box is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

Annual exhibitions are supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional annual organizational funds from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Contemporary Art Installations Stimulate Dialogue
Works by Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Catherine Sullivan on View during Art Basel
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33129

http://www.vizcayamuseum.org

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens presents site-specific installations by Miami-based sculptor Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Chicago-based theater and film artist Catherine Sullivan. Rodriguez’s work opened on November 8 and Sullivan’s on November 29, 2007. The artists were invited to explore Vizcaya and its history and to develop artworks as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Arts Project. Both installations will be on view at the National Historic Landmark through February 24, 2008.

“The Contemporary Arts Project, started in November 2006, has been interesting and successful,” said Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, Executive Director of Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. “In addition to introducing visitors to thought-provoking, site-specific artworks, the Contemporary Arts Project reinvigorates Vizcaya with the creative dialogue that characterized its foundation and gives our local community an opportunity to return and see something new and different.”

On November 8, 2007 Vizcaya Museum & Gardens launched Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s installation, Struggling for Grandeur. The work–made entirely of plastic–responds to the topiaries found in the formal gardens of Vizcaya. Struggling for Grandeur, which is about seven feet tall, is exhibited in the center of the Tea Room, which features stained glass doors overlooking the gardens. Its title references the parallels between James Deering’s efforts to build something grand in early Miami and Ms. Rodriguez’s to imbue her synthetic materials with artistic significance.

Cristina Lei Rodriguez uses a wide mix of media. Epoxy, resin as well as consumer products such as plastic flowers, are just a few of the materials the artist combines to create one-of-a-kind pieces. A graduate of California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, with a BA from Middlebury College (VT), Rodriguez has exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville, FL), The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst (Oslo, Norway), The Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), as well as various galleries in the United States. Struggling for Grandeur was commissioned by Vizcaya Museum & Gardens.

Catherine Sullivan’s new multi-channel video installation, Triangle of Need, opened at Vizcaya on November 29, 2007. Triangle of Need was executed in collaboration with Los Angeles composer Sean Griffin, Minneapolis choreographer Dylan Skybrook, and Nigerian director Kunle Afolayan. The work was filmed primarily at Vizcaya and in a nondescript apartment in Chicago, the city in which Vizcaya patron James Deering’s International Harvester firm was based. Triangle of Need introduces “Neanderthals,” e-mail scams, and figure skating into Vizcaya’s lush and seemingly placid environment. The resulting video is at once visually seductive and conceptually alienating, mixing cinematic conventions with difficult and abstract ideas about evolution, human behavior, and
social inequality.

Vizcaya provided a relevant backdrop for Sullivan’s focus on class and the evolution of wealth in America. But Sullivan also sought to meet the estate’s “high standard for the imagination.” Explaining how the property was compatible with her approach, the artist noted: “Vizcaya is a place of great historical ‘noise,’ with a pastiche of styles and decorative chronologies; there is no singular experience of one moment in time. Histories overlap and leave behind loose ends.”

Triangle of Need was co-commissioned by Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, A Foundation (Liverpool, UK), and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN).

Sullivan’s and Rodriquez’s installations will be on view during the run of Art Basel Miami Beach, which combines an international art show with special exhibitions, parties and crossover events. Vizcaya Museum & Gardens is one of several exhibition and event sites. For more information on Art Basel Miami beach, visit http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

About The Contemporary Arts Project
The Contemporary Arts Projects engages artists in developing and presenting artworks reflecting their perspective of Vizcaya. After a preliminary immersion visit to the Museum, each artist creates an original work that is presented through related public programming. The Contemporary Arts Projects was launched in Fall 2006 with Organic Pipes, a sound installation by Miami-based artist Gustavo Matamoros using elements from Vizcaya’s historic pipe organ. In Spring 2007, Vizcaya exhibited Still Life, a short film by New York-based visual artist Anna Gaskell. The works by Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Catherine Sullivan will be on view at Vizcaya through February 24, 2008.

About Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Built by agricultural industrialist James Deering in 1916, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, a National Historic Landmark, features a main house, ten acres of formal gardens, a hardwood hammock, and soon-to-be-restored historic village that will provide additional venues for programs and community outreach. Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, located at 3251 South Miami Avenue, is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.vizcayamuseum.org or call 305-250-9133.

Media Contacts:
Jane Watkins — Watkins PR
jane@watkinspr.com
305-235-8575

Holly Blount — Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
holly.blount@vizcayamuseum.org
305-860-8451