Cultural Transference
June 15—July 27, 2012
Curated by Sara Reisman
Firelei Baez
Matthew Cowan
Hubert Czerepok
Nicolas Dumit Estevez
Pablo Helguera
Christopher K. Ho
Yoko Inoue
LoVid
Umesh Maddanahalli
Dread Scott and Kyle Goen
Allison Smith
Juliana Irene Smith
Shinique Smith
Elisabeth Smolarz
Cultural Transference presents recent artwork by sixteen international and New York-based artists whose practices are actively engaged with the transformation of culture in contemporary art and everyday life. Through transactions and exchanges - social, spiritual, economic, and political - artworks featured in the exhibition collectively express how cultural practice is reciprocally changing and being changed by its context. Depending on the mobility of those in the role of producing culture and those who consume it, the transmission of culture can move quickly or slowly through space and time.
The exhibition features video, sculpture, performance, installation, collage, and craft-based projects by artists who draw from the cultural references and contexts of Afghanistan, the Caribbean, China, India, Iraq, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, and the United States, among other places. Together, the artists' projects communicate the areas where cultures and cultural production mutate, are appropriated, and remixed resulting in experiences that push against stereotypes, and defy the logic of accepted cultural mores.
EVENTS
Thursday, June 21, 6:30-8:30pm
Turning the World a conversation between artists
Yoko Inoue, The Seven Transformations of Hello Kitty, 2010. Ceramics (porcelain and terra cotta), fur and fake hair.
