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Library of Art in New Orleans Oct 11 - 27

I have a show of very new work, “Library of Art, opening next week at (October 11) at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans.

“Library of Art” is an eight volume set of books: “Material,” “Process,” “Structure,” “Action,” “Situation,” “Duration,” and “Color,” each contain words or sentence fragments that can be combined to form an almost infinite number instructional artworks. An eighth book, “Participation” is left blank for anyone to record the works they create.

The beginning of an already-futile attempt to contain the world, the Library of Art looks at language as a magic trick – out of the immateriality of language you can make realities and then realities can collapse back into language. The thing and the name of the thing: we know they are from fundamentally different orders of being. And yet! Presto change-o! We can go from one to the other in an instant.

The Library of Art is inspired by algorithms and recipes, by Fluxus event scores, instructional works and the legalistic descriptive captions of conceptual art (the work of Barry, Cage, Kaprow, Knowles, Lozano, Ono, Weiner and others). By reanimating instructional art in the form of a library of possibilities, the hope is to open up authorship and let art be a game that everyone plays.

This exhibition of “Library of Art” was instigated by Austin Thomas of Pocket Utopia in collaboration with Christine Catsifas.

Appearing concurrently at Good Children Gallery will be Territories, a solo exhibition by Christine Catsifas. The exhibition features collage-based work in which image and text are reassembled into incommunicable, internal landscapes.

Good Children Gallery
Christine Catsifas
Pocket Utopia

Good Children Gallery
4037 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
http://www.goodchildrengallery.com
email: info@goodchildrengallery.com
ph: (504) 975-1557

Exhibition dates: October 11- 27, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday October 11, 6pm – 9pm
Gallery Hours: 12pm – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday

Postcard Image with the text of “Process”