Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Mind Sets and Attract/Repel: two shows that open soon


I am in TWO shows The open on the same day!
Happily, only one has it's opening reception then.
Attract/Repel is part of Central Booking's continuing series of science-based exhibitions, this one focusing on physics. It should be a fascinating show and I am really pleased to be a part of it. Central Booking is a really special gallery with excellent and eccentric programming....

Secondly, we have Mind Sets, being held at real-life hotbed of science, the Haskins Language Lab! This was really a unique opportunity, and was so much fun. Meant to be a collaboration between artists and scientists, I can hardly lay claim to any such rigor:
my work is full of fiction, rumor, superstition and innuendo.
I am very happy with it.
From the press release:
"Curated by Cat Balco and Debbie Hesse with Curatorial Assistant Steven Olsen, Mind Sets explores the potential of collaboration between artists and scientists. New initiatives and ideas result from conversations between artists and scientists, offering new ways of approaching concepts through interdisciplinary communication.
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Featured artists include Fritz Horstman, Zachary Keeting, Lucy Kim, Eva Lee, Martha Lewis, Laura Marsh, Kim Mikenis, Carol Padberg, Dushko Petrovich, Cuyler Remick, Matt Sargent, Bill Solomon, Susan Classen-Sullivan and Paul Theriault.


Students of Natacha Poggio, a multidisciplinary designer on faculty at Hartford Art School and Director of the Design Global Change initiative, have collaboratively produced a catalogue and graphic images for the exhibit.

Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Exchanging ideas, fostering collaborations, and forging partnerships across the sciences, it produces groundbreaking research that enhances our understanding of -- and reveals ways to improve or remediate -- speech perception and production, reading and reading disabilities, and human communication."

This is an unusual setting for an exhibition and the work I've seen so is daring and varied-

worth a detour and a snoop, I'd say...




3 comments:

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m said...

Thanks Cou!

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