"X LIBRIS REVIEW ON SF ART ENTHUSIAST
Our X Libris at Root Division has a great review on the San Francisco Art Enthusiast blog.
You can read about the exhibition and check out some great photos here.
You can read about the exhibition and check out some great photos here.
X LIBRIS EXHIBITION AT ROOT DIVISION
Exhibition Dates: November 7th – December 1st, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10th, 7-10pm
Happy Hour/Closing Reception: Friday, November 30th, 5-8pm
Root Division
3175 17th Street
SF, CA
www.rootdivision.org
X Libris explores the "book" as a vulnerable, ephemeral, morphing form, in this time of accelerated transition to digital communication and “real-time.”
Leaves, spine, dust-jacket, prologue, introduction, epilogue... the language we use to describe the anatomy and syntax of books connotes corporeality and linear time; it is a lexicon from the prior millennium. What is the lexicon, literary and visual, that would describe the present and indicate the future? As we communicate through a multiplicity of co-existent forms that create a palimpsest of readings not previously possible, how is our relationship to the printed page changing? If the book hovers between potential obsolescence and revered status as treasured object, how might the “value” of a unique hand-made book, a limited edition, or in fact of any physical book be shifting?
The book has always been a fluid form, responsive to the pace and nature of thinking. Historically, as reading became a silent and solitary activity, books inspired, and required, deep concentration. The book reflected and encouraged interiority of mind. With the technological leap from the printed page to binary code, we are now accustomed to reading the world through multi-directional referencing and browsing. Our relationship to time is incrementally measured, attention fragmented. Are we forgetting how to dive into a book and swim, fully immersed, from cover to cover?
Through the imagination, intuition and interpretation of 24 visual artists, X Libris questions our shifting relationship to a form in flux.
Curated by MicroClimate Collective: Glenna Cole Allee, Victoria Mara Heilweil and Guest Curator Sarah Ratchye
Artists:
Alexis Arnold
Lauren Bartone
Julia Bradshaw
Laura Chenault
Sarah Christianson
Emily Eifler
Julia Goodman
Matthew Gualco
Samuel Levi Jones
Kate Jordahl and Don Drake
Pantea Karimi
Michael Kerbow
Wendy Kramer
Steven Vasquez Lopez
Klea McKenna
Camilla Newhagen
Yulia Pinkusevich and Glenna Cole Allee
Maria Porges
Megan Prelinger
Leah Rosenberg
Brian Taylor
Nanette Wylde
Jody Zellen
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 2-6pm
Support for MicroClimate Collective and X Libris is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10th, 7-10pm
Happy Hour/Closing Reception: Friday, November 30th, 5-8pm
Root Division
3175 17th Street
SF, CA
www.rootdivision.org
X Libris explores the "book" as a vulnerable, ephemeral, morphing form, in this time of accelerated transition to digital communication and “real-time.”
Leaves, spine, dust-jacket, prologue, introduction, epilogue... the language we use to describe the anatomy and syntax of books connotes corporeality and linear time; it is a lexicon from the prior millennium. What is the lexicon, literary and visual, that would describe the present and indicate the future? As we communicate through a multiplicity of co-existent forms that create a palimpsest of readings not previously possible, how is our relationship to the printed page changing? If the book hovers between potential obsolescence and revered status as treasured object, how might the “value” of a unique hand-made book, a limited edition, or in fact of any physical book be shifting?
The book has always been a fluid form, responsive to the pace and nature of thinking. Historically, as reading became a silent and solitary activity, books inspired, and required, deep concentration. The book reflected and encouraged interiority of mind. With the technological leap from the printed page to binary code, we are now accustomed to reading the world through multi-directional referencing and browsing. Our relationship to time is incrementally measured, attention fragmented. Are we forgetting how to dive into a book and swim, fully immersed, from cover to cover?
Through the imagination, intuition and interpretation of 24 visual artists, X Libris questions our shifting relationship to a form in flux.
Curated by MicroClimate Collective: Glenna Cole Allee, Victoria Mara Heilweil and Guest Curator Sarah Ratchye
Artists:
Alexis Arnold
Lauren Bartone
Julia Bradshaw
Laura Chenault
Sarah Christianson
Emily Eifler
Julia Goodman
Matthew Gualco
Samuel Levi Jones
Kate Jordahl and Don Drake
Pantea Karimi
Michael Kerbow
Wendy Kramer
Steven Vasquez Lopez
Klea McKenna
Camilla Newhagen
Yulia Pinkusevich and Glenna Cole Allee
Maria Porges
Megan Prelinger
Leah Rosenberg
Brian Taylor
Nanette Wylde
Jody Zellen
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 2-6pm
Support for MicroClimate Collective and X Libris is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
PICKS OF THE WEEK
Our exhibition A.D.D. is a weekly pick in the Night + Day section of SF Weekly.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/
It also a weekly pick on SF Gate
http://www.sfgate.com/music/essentials/a
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/
It also a weekly pick on SF Gate
http://www.sfgate.com/music/essentials/a
For fall 2012, MicroClimate Collective will present two exhibitions that together create a contrapuntal conversation about time. The first will be:
A.D.D.
A show of artwork in multiple genres with five events
Exhibition Dates: Saturday October 20th - Sunday November 18th, 2012
Hosted by:
The Emerald Tablet
80 Fresno Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
www.emtab.org
Exhibition Events:
Opening Reception: Saturday October 20th 7-10pm
with performances by Tom Comitta, Santhi Elayaperumal and others
Concrete Blonde: Saturday, October 27th, 8-10pm $10
an evening of experimental sound and projection with shudder: Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller and Phillip Greenlief, with special guests Aurora Josephson, Tim Perkis, and John Shiurba
North Beach Art Walk: Friday, November 2nd, 6-11
with Mobile Arts Platform: Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari
CollectiveGif: Information Overflow: Saturday, November 3rd 8-10pm, $5
a multi-screen event of new media and performance curated by
killer banshee: Eliot Daughtry and Kriss de Jong
with Zon Wakest, Dean Putney, Anthony Discenza, Travis Meinhof, Phil Bonner
Closing Dinner of Stimuli and Antidotes: Friday, November 16th, 7-10pm
$15 advance $20 on the evening: http://microclimatecollective.eventbrite
a mini-course meal with texting, paper airplanes, long straws and story telling
curated by Ann Schnake with Denali Schmidt
Gallery Hours: Friday evenings, 6-9pm; Saturday and Sunday afternoons, 2-6pm
A.D.D.
The worldwide web with it's manifold innovations, from social networking to cloud storage, has immersed us in global real-time. We glide across expanded cartographies where accustomed distances from moment to moment, place to place, no longer exist. Yet with the expectation of constant and unbounded "connectedness," our experience of the present is fractured as never before. We have become accustomed to interruption; it is difficult to find an unmediated moment. The thread of continuity is an ephemeral thing, easily lost to thin air.
"One is subject to an overexposure. The real time overexposes us, it dazzles us. In a certain way we have not learned to wear sunglasses against the live glare. Sunglasses should be invented so that we are not dazzled by real time, that is the task."
- Paul Virilio, June 8 1981, Paris (in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist)
The first of MicroClimate’s two fall shows dealing with time, A.D.D. will address the malleable nature of concentration and memory in the age of multitasking.
This exhibition will include work in multiple genres reflecting the disruption of continuity: disjointed, staccato, arrhythmic experience. The gallery will become a collage of visual and auditory experiences, as a comment on fractured attention.
A.D.D.’s programming includes five events: the opening event, with a demonstration of Santhi Elayaperumal’s robotic drawing machine (with Yulia Pinkusevich); an evening of sound/musical performance and projection, curated by Phillip Greenlief; an evening of performance and projection, curated by killer banshee; and a participatory, thematic dinner, cooked/curated by Ann Schnake. There will also be performances on the night of the November North Beach ArtWalk.
Some highlights of this month-long exhibition curated by MicroClimate Collective will be an interactive installation by the Mobile Arts Platform, in the street in front of the gallery; a mural-scale drawing by Christopher Burch; Liz Hickok’s video of suburban Las Vegas development, conjured in Jello; Stephanie Ellis and Serena Wellen’s dinner-party video Buzz, Phillip Maisel’s long exposures of entire folders of images posted on Facebook, Clint Imboden’s x-ray installation, and many other surprises.
We hope you will join us for A.D.D.!
The companion exhibition to A.D.D., X Libris, will be hosted by Root Division: 3175 17th Street, San Francisco, 94110. Show dates will be November 7th-December 1st, 2012. Opening Event: November 10th.
Support for MicroClimate’s 2012 exhibitions is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program; grant funds will allow us to archive the exhibitions.
Participating Artists, Performers and Collaborators:
Kirkman Amyx
Christopher Burch
Tom Comitta
Santhi Elayaperumal
Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen
Mary Franck & Ian Smith-Heisters with Nirmala Nataraj & Aude Cartoux
Blake Gibson
Phillip Greenlief with shudder: Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller and special guests Aurora Josephson, Tim Perkis and John Shiurba
Liz Hickok
Clint Imboden
killer banshee: Eliot Daughtry & Kriss De Jong, with Zon Wakest, Dean Putney, Anthony Discenza, Travis Meinholf, Phil Bonner
Phillip Maisel
Mobile Arts Platform: Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari
Sonya Philip
Yulia Pinkusevich
Joseph Rosenzweig
Laura Sackett
Ann Schnake with Denali Schmidt
A.D.D.
A show of artwork in multiple genres with five events
Exhibition Dates: Saturday October 20th - Sunday November 18th, 2012
Hosted by:
The Emerald Tablet
80 Fresno Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
www.emtab.org
Exhibition Events:
Opening Reception: Saturday October 20th 7-10pm
with performances by Tom Comitta, Santhi Elayaperumal and others
Concrete Blonde: Saturday, October 27th, 8-10pm $10
an evening of experimental sound and projection with shudder: Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller and Phillip Greenlief, with special guests Aurora Josephson, Tim Perkis, and John Shiurba
North Beach Art Walk: Friday, November 2nd, 6-11
with Mobile Arts Platform: Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari
CollectiveGif: Information Overflow: Saturday, November 3rd 8-10pm, $5
a multi-screen event of new media and performance curated by
killer banshee: Eliot Daughtry and Kriss de Jong
with Zon Wakest, Dean Putney, Anthony Discenza, Travis Meinhof, Phil Bonner
Closing Dinner of Stimuli and Antidotes: Friday, November 16th, 7-10pm
$15 advance $20 on the evening: http://microclimatecollective.eventbrite
a mini-course meal with texting, paper airplanes, long straws and story telling
curated by Ann Schnake with Denali Schmidt
Gallery Hours: Friday evenings, 6-9pm; Saturday and Sunday afternoons, 2-6pm
A.D.D.
The worldwide web with it's manifold innovations, from social networking to cloud storage, has immersed us in global real-time. We glide across expanded cartographies where accustomed distances from moment to moment, place to place, no longer exist. Yet with the expectation of constant and unbounded "connectedness," our experience of the present is fractured as never before. We have become accustomed to interruption; it is difficult to find an unmediated moment. The thread of continuity is an ephemeral thing, easily lost to thin air.
"One is subject to an overexposure. The real time overexposes us, it dazzles us. In a certain way we have not learned to wear sunglasses against the live glare. Sunglasses should be invented so that we are not dazzled by real time, that is the task."
- Paul Virilio, June 8 1981, Paris (in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist)
The first of MicroClimate’s two fall shows dealing with time, A.D.D. will address the malleable nature of concentration and memory in the age of multitasking.
This exhibition will include work in multiple genres reflecting the disruption of continuity: disjointed, staccato, arrhythmic experience. The gallery will become a collage of visual and auditory experiences, as a comment on fractured attention.
A.D.D.’s programming includes five events: the opening event, with a demonstration of Santhi Elayaperumal’s robotic drawing machine (with Yulia Pinkusevich); an evening of sound/musical performance and projection, curated by Phillip Greenlief; an evening of performance and projection, curated by killer banshee; and a participatory, thematic dinner, cooked/curated by Ann Schnake. There will also be performances on the night of the November North Beach ArtWalk.
Some highlights of this month-long exhibition curated by MicroClimate Collective will be an interactive installation by the Mobile Arts Platform, in the street in front of the gallery; a mural-scale drawing by Christopher Burch; Liz Hickok’s video of suburban Las Vegas development, conjured in Jello; Stephanie Ellis and Serena Wellen’s dinner-party video Buzz, Phillip Maisel’s long exposures of entire folders of images posted on Facebook, Clint Imboden’s x-ray installation, and many other surprises.
We hope you will join us for A.D.D.!
The companion exhibition to A.D.D., X Libris, will be hosted by Root Division: 3175 17th Street, San Francisco, 94110. Show dates will be November 7th-December 1st, 2012. Opening Event: November 10th.
Support for MicroClimate’s 2012 exhibitions is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program; grant funds will allow us to archive the exhibitions.
Participating Artists, Performers and Collaborators:
Kirkman Amyx
Christopher Burch
Tom Comitta
Santhi Elayaperumal
Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen
Mary Franck & Ian Smith-Heisters with Nirmala Nataraj & Aude Cartoux
Blake Gibson
Phillip Greenlief with shudder: Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller and special guests Aurora Josephson, Tim Perkis and John Shiurba
Liz Hickok
Clint Imboden
killer banshee: Eliot Daughtry & Kriss De Jong, with Zon Wakest, Dean Putney, Anthony Discenza, Travis Meinholf, Phil Bonner
Phillip Maisel
Mobile Arts Platform: Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari
Sonya Philip
Yulia Pinkusevich
Joseph Rosenzweig
Laura Sackett
Ann Schnake with Denali Schmidt
ALTERNATIVE EXPOSURE ROUND V GRANT RECEIVED
MicroClimate Collective is pleased to announce that we have received an Alternative Exposure Round V grant from Southern Exposure Gallery in SF (www.soex.org). Alternative Exposure grants are made possible with major leadership support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Grant panelists included: Julie Lazar, independent curator and Director, International Contemporary Arts Network; Jasmine Moorhead, Owner and Director, Krowswork; and Rosten Woo, designer, writer, educator, and co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
With this grant funding MicroClimate Collective is planning two thematic exhibitions for 2012.
Grant panelists included: Julie Lazar, independent curator and Director, International Contemporary Arts Network; Jasmine Moorhead, Owner and Director, Krowswork; and Rosten Woo, designer, writer, educator, and co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
With this grant funding MicroClimate Collective is planning two thematic exhibitions for 2012.
