PRESENT
To Whom Do You
Beautifully Belong?
FUTURE
Of Other Spaces
The New Normal
Descent To Revolution
Calling Beauty
PAST
Exact Imagination
Taking Shelter
Consumption Junction
Shoot The Family
Prophets Of Deceit
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February 25-April 25, 2009
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[Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R&D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked]>>>
Curated by Michael Connor
The New Normal brings together works by an international group of artists who mine the private sphere--domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications and behaviors--for raw material and subject matter. Using information as diverse as leaked documents, Internet websites and home videos to create videos, photographs, and computer installations with web components, the exhibition offers intimate portraits of individuals who internalize invasive conditions of surveillance. While the artists in this exhibition question these conditions, they also raise ethical and political issues about decisions and transactions that lead people to expose their personal information to the world.
The New Normal is a traveling exhibition co-organized by [iCI (Independent Curators International)]>>>, New York and [Artists Space]>>>, New York, and circulated by iCI.
[Exhibition website]>>>
[View interview with Michael Connor at Artists Space YouTube page]>>>
[Publication]>>>
Sophie Calle, Unfinished, 2005
single-channel video projection with sound, 30 minutes 14 seconds
courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
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Mohamed Camara, Les Rideaux de Mohamed (The Curtains of Mohamed), 2004
single-channel video without sound, 65 minutes
courtesy of the artist and Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris
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Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience: Position and Tracking Transience: Evidence, 2007
two-channel video without sound and single-channel video without sound
courtesy of the artist
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Eyebeam R&D/Jonah Peretti and Michael Frumin, Fundrace 2008 (Neighbor Search), 2008
computer installation with real-time web connection
courtesy of Eyebeam R&D Lab, Jonah Peretti, Michael Frumin, and Huffington Post
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Kota Ezawa, Home Video II, 2007
single-channel video without sound, 5 minutes
courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, New York
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Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Learning to Love You More (Assignment 50: Take a flash photo under your bed), 2005
color photographs printed from Internet project with text labels, 4 x 6 inches
courtesy the artists
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Guthrie Lonergan, MySpace Intro Playlist, 2006
two single-channel videos with sound, 8 minutes; 13 minutes
courtesy the artist
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Jill Magid, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2006-07
single-channel video without sound, 12 minutes 49 seconds; three Chromogenic prints, book, stand-in bullet in bulletproof vitrine
courtesy Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements, 2008
installation with text and store-bought products, dimensions variable
courtesy Postmasters Gallery, New York
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Trevor Paglen, Six C.I.A. Officers Wanted in Connection with the Abduction of Abu Omar from Milan, Italy, 2007
six inkjet prints, 14.625 x 14.625 inches
courtesy the artist and Bellwether Gallery, New York
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Corinna Schnitt, Once Upon a Time, 2005
single-channel video with sound, 25 minutes
courtesy Gallery Olaf Stueber, Berlin
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Thomson & Craighead, Beacon, 2007
data projection with real-time Web connection, dimensions variable
courtesy of the artists
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Sharif Waked, Chic Point, 2003
single-channel video with sound, 5 minutes 10 seconds
courtesy of the artist
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