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Locust Project celebrates 20 years of activity with the 20/20 Project: 20 artists in 20 hours
Twenty artists / Twenty works is the title of the exhibition that Locust Project organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the association: 20 artists who have never exhibited at Locust Projects will present each of the site-specific works just commissioned in temporary exhibitions lasting an hour. The countdown will start on Friday, September 7th at 9:00 pm and between installations and performances it will end on September 8th at 5:00 pm, with a party open to the public. After the presentation of one hour each, the artists will install the elements of their projects in the Main Gallery space, accessible until 29 September 2018.
The exhibition consists of a series of performances and installations created with all possible and imaginable supports and presented in the dedicated space: the Project Room, visible at all hours of the day and night, from a small tribune covered by a canvas, placed exactly in front of it, like a stage, at the Project Room.
The twenty artists who participated were:
Anthony Anaya with EndlessSS19, Queens, New York: his installation is inspired by the Colombian arts and crafts, a catwalk in which the artists wear Colombian ornaments, then exposed in a sort of pop-up store.
Fealan Blair: Through the search for a new cartography he explores the dangerous barriers of distraction in search of immediate social contact.
Furies Ride by Annie Blazejack and Gedes Levenson, Miami Florida: The artists tell the story of the journey of three women on their bikes, who through Miami explore the social dynamics of watching and being watched in a city that looks at itself.
The Harpsichordist was Telepresent by Tom Boram, Baltimore, Maryland: active in experimental underground music for over two decades, the artist considers the vlog and selfie elements able to merge into a new form: If electronic media make our other selves amazing hideous die.
Monument To a Folding Chair by Lewis Colburn of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: His work Monument to a Folding Chair suggests its central role in this seemingly stupid shaky chair that played a key role in the history of the world: it was February 15, 1933, when Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but the folding and rickety chair on which Roosevelt sat surrendered, saving his life.
Sobre a Tumba a Rumba by Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera, Havana, Cuba and Benjamin Del Castillo, Havana, Cuba / Los Angeles, California:
Through a metaphor of the movement of a Roomba vacuum cleaner placed under a carpet, the artists represent the trap hidden under the carpet of space that cleans dust while pushing people away. The meaning of the work tries to establish a connection between the personal and the universal to explore its absence and paradox.
Chaîne Opératoire by Gioj De Marco, Los Angeles, California: the artist’s practice examines myths and legends of popular culture derived from religious texts, graphic novels, films and raps. In the proposed work, the artist is concerned with the work that identifies what Jane Bennett describes as “the active role of non-human materials that have their own productive power;
When the Bones are Weak the Bones will Speak by Bethany Dinsick, Brooklyn, New York: the artist proposes a multimedia installation and a live exhibition that displays the eternal recycling of universal energy creating a surreal source of energy transfer between flowing water, two dissimilar bodies, sounds of internal nature and the physical voice.
Richard Haley, Detroit, Missouri: In his performance the artist will represent the binomial body-mind divided into an effort to reconsider the perception of living and inert matter.
Sam Hamilton, Portland, Oregon: Disciplinary Artist Sam Hamilton presents a specific portraiture for the situation that makes two artists negotiate the transitory occupation of a shared space and the invisible convergence between what came before and what comes next.
Mumbo on the edge by Miles Engel-Hawbecker, Baltimore, Maryland: In his work, a multimedia artistic sculpture Hawbecker reminds us that the chaos of life is controlled, even if not completely by our efforts to choose the correct path when they communicate with the our ideas.
Moments of Electric Sound Bath, Los Angeles, California: duo of multimedia artists, their works are inspired by the sound baths (one-hour sound healing sessions) made famous by the Integratron located in the Mojave desert in California. Inspired by nature, esoteric philosophy and similar musicians, Electric Sound Bath create equally dense sound baths that envelop the listeners.
The process of weeding out by Eric Fleischauer, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago artist who uses conceptually guided production strategies to examine the nuances of the pervasive influence of technology. In its network-based readymade performance using a popular dating app, the boundaries between public and private are dissolved, bringing out a powerful dynamic in which viewers can find themselves, their friends or their substitutes reflected in an elusive way in the work.
Inside-Outside by Alejandro Franco and Daniel Caran, Colombia: Colombian trans-morphological artists, whose work is inspired by the constant quest to see poetry in the common place. Their theatrical performance represents the constantly fluctuating blurring of the boundaries between the digital, physical and oneiric world.
20/20 Miami Mixtape by Tara Long in Miami, Florida: experimental artist of sound and performance, the work is a collection of a series of recorded sound performances performed by several local artists over the course of an hour.
The Furbaeum by Momma Tried, New Orleans, Louisiana: explores the relationship between man and machine, reflecting on the persistent collective prejudices and superstitions towards the robotic world and inviting the viewer to consider how our fear of robots is not a justified response, but rather a reflection of the darkness within us.
Divide to Multiply by Douglas Repetto, Memphis, Tennessee: Starting from a rudimentary notion of cell division, the artist cuts a table in half and repeats this process continuously with the remains of the table, then trying to rebuild the original card from the multiple halves . The aim is to investigate the poorly executed versions of natural systems.
Monument to the Sea by Michael Webster, Spartanburg, South Carolina: artist and educator whose work investigates the social organization of space Michael Webster in his work composes an ode to the sea and its shifting shores that confuse the boundaries between a border without end and the sense of home.
At Blue AR15 by Joséphine Wister Faure, Los Angeles, California / Paris: The performance includes the assembly of the semi-automatic AR 15 weapon and will appear as if the weapon was assembling itself with the use of the blueChroma key, a popular method used to Hollywood to insert or remove contents.
Oracular Spectacular by David Yu, Toronto, Canada: it is a performance that combines artistic intention and parapsychology (psychic phenomena) through automatic design which is the process by which a clairvoyant receives perceptive extrasensory visions to create drawn images.
Officially recognized as a non-profit organization in 2002, the Locust Project is an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary visual art that grants artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressure of exposure and sale to the gallery nor the limitation of the canonical limits of space exhibition.
Founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami-based artists: Elizabeth Withstandley, Westen Charles and COOPER, Locust Project was the first art space based in Wynwood.
The institution has grown over time and become known thanks to the contribution of the Andy Warhol Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs who have supported the continuous growth. The Locust Project today presents ambitious works by a diverse group of artists in the critical phases of their careers, increasing their reputation both nationally and internationally.
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