7-10 PM
Rob Andrews: "VOID COWL" At the advent of the end of humanity, at the occasion of the end of the world, this is what I would do. In my disbelief and desperation I would chop wood""
Saturday, April 14
7-10 pm
free (beer & wine)
SATURDAY APRIL 14:
ROB ANDREWS PRESENTS:
Grace Exhibition Space is thrilled to be hosting Rob Andrews in Void Cowl! A pre-apocalyptic action, avoiding our worlds' inevitable end
Saturday: Rob Andrews
I will chop wood in the space until my body no longer functions. Next to me a cellist will play until her body gives out
I will bring about a hundred logs into the space to chop, I anticipate the action will take between two and four hours. After one of us can no longer work, he/she will lay down. Then the other will lay down as well, and the lights will dim and fade to black.
Rob Andrews lives and works in Brooklyn. He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and is represented by English Kills Art Gallery. He recently enacted mass group feet cleanings in Union Square as part of Art in Odd Places, and in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival on 11.11.11. He is a 2010-11 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient.
ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE for PERFORMANCE ART
Patricia Milder, The Brooklyn Rail (May, 2011)
"Through such intimate encounters between performance groups and their guests, they could follow in the spirit of Yoko Ono's Chamber Street loft or the Surrealist soirees of Paris."
Warren Fry, The Brooklyn Rail (August, 2007)
Please read the Interview with us SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space in the Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2011/05/artseen/specialized-vision-curating-grace-exhibition-space">Grace Exhibition Space, since 2006, is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging performance works by the current generation of international performance artists, whether emerging, mid career or established.
Being a Brooklyn loft, our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
"Grace Exhibition Space is the sole gallery in this city that shows specifically, in its most intentionally narrow definition, Performance Art."
Patricia Milder, The Brooklyn Rail (May, 2011)
"Through such intimate encounters between performance groups and their guests, they could follow in the spirit of Yoko Ono's Chamber Street loft or the Surrealist soirees of Paris."
Warren Fry, The Brooklyn Rail (August, 2007)
Please read the Interview with us SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space in the Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2011/05/artseen/specialized-vision-curating-grace-exhibition-space