October 5th: Mika Tajima/New Humans

October 5th: Mika Tajima/New Humans

We are excited to present New Humans: Mika Tajima and Howie Chen on October 5th.

Mika Tajima is a New York City–based artist who, by connecting geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, explores activities, form, and performative roles defined by divisive social spaces. A Columbia MFA graduate, her recent exhibitions includes Sculpture Center, Bass Museum, and X Initiative with upcoming exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, and collaborative project at South London Gallery.

Formed in 2003, New York–based New Humans make collaborative works that explore the intersection of sound, installation, and performance. New Humans emerged out of Mika Tajima's art practice and is a moniker for her projects with curator Howie Chen, as well as musicians, artists, and designers including Vito Acconci, Charles Atlas, C. Spencer Yeh, among others. New Humans performances and recordings employ a working use of physical materials, piercing drones, sheer static, and low bass frequencies.

Howie Chen is a New York–based curator who is a cofounder of Dispatch, a curatorial production office and project space. This year Chen and artist/attorney Jason Kakoyiannis founded JEQU (Juicing the Equilibrium), a project to assess how sociological and cultural economic approaches to art world debates can augment artistic critique.


View and listen to Mika Tajima/New Humans work:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/new_humans.html
http://elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/mika-tajima-new-humans
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2010/05/mika-tajima-at-bass-museum-of-art/


Other links:
www.dispatchbureau.com
www.jequ.org


Images of Mika's work:

Review of Trevor's Book (Invisible)

The New yorker review

link to Trevor Paglen's exhibit: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225

The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225

Trevor Paglen, September 21st 2010

Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us.

Paglen's visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, and has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, and Art Forum.

Paglen has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, Art Matters, Artadia, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

Paglen is the author of four books. His first book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. His second book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007) an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs, was published in Spring 2008. His third book, Blank Spots on a Map, was published by Dutton/Penguin in early 2009. In 2010, Aperture published his first photographic monograph entitled Invisible.

Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley.

Paglen lives and works in Oakland, CA and New York City.

Genesis P-Orridge + Lia Gangitano Sept 14th

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