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Join us at the Invisible Dog Art Center this Saturday, June 2 from 6-10pm for the opening of Everything is Index, Nothing is History. Presented by Recession Art and curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell, Everything is Index, Nothing is History presents works that point to physical realities and trace purported histories through archives, found objects, photographs, material states, and physical actions. Participating artists include: Kate Bonner, Eric Timothy Carlson, J and James Carpenter, Courtney Chappell, Sarah Crofts, Lizzy De Vita, Shannon Finnegan, Ben Garthus, Max Glaser, Sam Keller, Yujin Lee, Antoine Lefebrve, Hudson Lines, Saul Melman, Peter Neu, Leah Raintree, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Rathus, and Nancy Woods.
Opening Date: Sat. June 2, 6-10pm
Exhibition Dates: Sat. June 2 to Sun. June 17
Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street
Everything is Index, Nothing is History explores a world chronicled by gestures and physical traces that establish a factual connection to the world independent of cultural codes. Nearly a century and a half ago, philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce defined index as a sign that is caused by that which it refers to. A footprint, a scar, the smoke of a fire—all are signs that simultaneously demonstrate what they signify. An index may attest to the immediate truth of a substance or physical state, just as fever announces illness, or it may depict the truth of time—both the sun dial’s reading of a minute and the dust pile’s accumulative presence. As our relationship to history and the present change in an expanding field of information, Everything is Index, Nothing is History presents works that point to physical realities and trace purported histories through archives, found objects, photographs, material states, and physical actions.
Curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell
Artists include: Kate Bonner, Eric Timothy Carlson, J and James Carpenter, Courtney Chappell, Sarah Crofts, Lizzy De Vita, Shannon Finnegan, Ben Garthus, Max Glaser, Sam Keller, Yujin Lee, Antoine Lefebrve, Hudson Lines, Saul Melman, Peter Neu, Leah Raintree, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Rathus, and Nancy Woods.
May 1 – June 17, 2012
RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton Street NY, NY 10002
On May 5th, Featured Artist Gabriela Vainsencher presents Don’t Have No Colleague, a solo exhibition at RAC. Don’t Have No Colleague features work from Vainsencher’s four-year-old Morning Drawing project. Since January 22, 2008 Vainsencher has made a drawing and posted its image on her website (gabrielavainsencher.com) every morning, totaling over 1,200 works.
As a trilingual foreigner working in her third language,
