International and National Projects Spring 2007
Joe Deutch, Stefan Eins, McKendree Key, Mark Lewis, David Maljkovic, and Senam Okudzeto
11 Feb - 30 Apr 2007
Installation view of the P.S. 1 exhibition "International and National Projects Spring 2007:
Joe Deutch, Stefan Eins, McKendree Key, Mark Lewis, David Maljkovic, and Senam Okudzeto"
February 11–April 30, 2007. INPS1.959.1
Joe Deutch, Stefan Eins, McKendree Key, Mark Lewis, David Maljkovic, and Senam Okudzeto"
February 11–April 30, 2007. INPS1.959.1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the work of six artists as part of the International and National Projects program. Featuring new and recent works by an intergenerational group of artists, these solo exhibitions showcase a range of media, including video, photography, and installation. The International and National Projects open on February 11, 2007.
Joe Deutch's , A Cottage Industry is part of an on-going investigation into public acts and pictorial theater. Comprised of video, photographic, sculptural, and audio elements, the project presents different facets of a singular idea. On a plinth in the center of the room is the Alcoholics Anonymous bible known as "The Big Book," surrounded by clandestine audio recordings of moral conflict, transgression and confession made during these ostensibly private and anonymous groups. In a projection on the opposite wall the artist is engaged in a series of performative gestures which test the limits of what constitutes socially acceptable public behavior and seek out the point at which moral sense and social justice intervene. Speaking in the language of public declaration and private consensus, Deutch's photographs of signage call into question the larger assumptions underpinning this same moral economy. In all A Cottage Industry is a harsh interrogation of the right to speak when we have little or nothing to say.
Joe Deutch's , A Cottage Industry is part of an on-going investigation into public acts and pictorial theater. Comprised of video, photographic, sculptural, and audio elements, the project presents different facets of a singular idea. On a plinth in the center of the room is the Alcoholics Anonymous bible known as "The Big Book," surrounded by clandestine audio recordings of moral conflict, transgression and confession made during these ostensibly private and anonymous groups. In a projection on the opposite wall the artist is engaged in a series of performative gestures which test the limits of what constitutes socially acceptable public behavior and seek out the point at which moral sense and social justice intervene. Speaking in the language of public declaration and private consensus, Deutch's photographs of signage call into question the larger assumptions underpinning this same moral economy. In all A Cottage Industry is a harsh interrogation of the right to speak when we have little or nothing to say.