Moment I | Ever—
Ruth Buchanan, Damon Zucconi, & Perfume Area
Curated by Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma
10 February – June 2018
Shimmer
Level 2 Waalhaven Oostzijde 1
3087 BM Rotterdam, NL
We
present to you our first moment, of wavering and shifting endeavors.
In MOMENT I | EVER— works by RUTH BUCHANAN, DAMON ZUCCONI, LAUREL
SCHWULST & SYDNEY SHEN are brought together. At this moment we
are broadly thinking about the lingering encounter and the
anticipation that comes with it. We experience this with Ruth
Buchanan’s chain curtain Staunch,
IN and break, break, break (2018)
that both simultaneously reveals, obscures, and slips from our
fingers. Whereas, Serpentine
(2016) by Damon Zucconi in collaboration with Laurel Schwulst and
Sydney Shen is like the perfume it reviews, punctuating our senses
with rapid bursts of text and sound. Laurel and Sydney are PERFUME
AREA, an artistic project that tries to capture the high, mid, and
low notes of fragrance in lyrical form. Their collection ‘Perfume
Area’ (2015), published by Ambient Works, is presented here in the
space. Damon’s print Eurphobia
Milii (2018) is both indeterminate
and thorny giving us the ability to be present and absent at the same
time. Zucconi created a technique to ‘neutralize color perceptually
by rotating portions of an image in contrasting 90-degree hue shift’.
In doing, so the work changes intensity depending on what position
our bodies’ take in front of it. Hovering above our shoulders as we
work Ruth’s drawing Wavy line is
drawn across the middle of the original plans
(2016/2018) intersects the curtain, breaking its verticality. All the
works in MOMENT I | EVER— shift and break ever-so-slightly the way
we see.
present to you our first moment, of wavering and shifting endeavors.
In MOMENT I | EVER— works by RUTH BUCHANAN, DAMON ZUCCONI, LAUREL
SCHWULST & SYDNEY SHEN are brought together. At this moment we
are broadly thinking about the lingering encounter and the
anticipation that comes with it. We experience this with Ruth
Buchanan’s chain curtain Staunch,
IN and break, break, break (2018)
that both simultaneously reveals, obscures, and slips from our
fingers. Whereas, Serpentine
(2016) by Damon Zucconi in collaboration with Laurel Schwulst and
Sydney Shen is like the perfume it reviews, punctuating our senses
with rapid bursts of text and sound. Laurel and Sydney are PERFUME
AREA, an artistic project that tries to capture the high, mid, and
low notes of fragrance in lyrical form. Their collection ‘Perfume
Area’ (2015), published by Ambient Works, is presented here in the
space. Damon’s print Eurphobia
Milii (2018) is both indeterminate
and thorny giving us the ability to be present and absent at the same
time. Zucconi created a technique to ‘neutralize color perceptually
by rotating portions of an image in contrasting 90-degree hue shift’.
In doing, so the work changes intensity depending on what position
our bodies’ take in front of it. Hovering above our shoulders as we
work Ruth’s drawing Wavy line is
drawn across the middle of the original plans
(2016/2018) intersects the curtain, breaking its verticality. All the
works in MOMENT I | EVER— shift and break ever-so-slightly the way
we see.
We
are creating SHIMMER with studio mentality where knowledge arises
through participation and experimentation. In this way, we hope the
artworks and the multifaceted others gather and stretch across time.
To do this, we are creating an expanded group exhibition that will be
developed in dialogue with the artists where artworks fade in and out
of sight in shifting rhythms.
are creating SHIMMER with studio mentality where knowledge arises
through participation and experimentation. In this way, we hope the
artworks and the multifaceted others gather and stretch across time.
To do this, we are creating an expanded group exhibition that will be
developed in dialogue with the artists where artworks fade in and out
of sight in shifting rhythms.
ARTISTS
PERFUME
AREA is the collaborative writing project between artists LAUREL
SCHWULST and SYDNEY SHEN. Readings, exhibitions, and projects include
Totokaelo (New York), FUME Parfums (Los Angeles), Soylent (Los
Angeles), Kodomo w/ Damon Zucconi (New York), left gallery (Berlin),
Beautiful Gallery (Chicago), WFMU (Jersey City), KCHUNG (Los
Angeles), Printed Matter (New York). Perfume Area vol. 1 was
published with Ambient Works (New York) in 2015.
AREA is the collaborative writing project between artists LAUREL
SCHWULST and SYDNEY SHEN. Readings, exhibitions, and projects include
Totokaelo (New York), FUME Parfums (Los Angeles), Soylent (Los
Angeles), Kodomo w/ Damon Zucconi (New York), left gallery (Berlin),
Beautiful Gallery (Chicago), WFMU (Jersey City), KCHUNG (Los
Angeles), Printed Matter (New York). Perfume Area vol. 1 was
published with Ambient Works (New York) in 2015.
DAMON
ZUCCONI (US, 1985) was an artist in residence at the Van Eyck
Academie in Maastricht. He frequently uses custom software and
scripts to create his works and has been engaged with the practice of
computer programming since 2010, producing works which are typically
accessible online. His works utilize vision, literacy and pattern
recognition to make plain our perceptual experience. His work has
been shown in Spazio Veda, Florence, IT, Vleeshal Center for
Contemporary Art, Middelburg, NL, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam,
NL, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL, New Museum, New York, NY.
ZUCCONI (US, 1985) was an artist in residence at the Van Eyck
Academie in Maastricht. He frequently uses custom software and
scripts to create his works and has been engaged with the practice of
computer programming since 2010, producing works which are typically
accessible online. His works utilize vision, literacy and pattern
recognition to make plain our perceptual experience. His work has
been shown in Spazio Veda, Florence, IT, Vleeshal Center for
Contemporary Art, Middelburg, NL, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam,
NL, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL, New Museum, New York, NY.
RUTH
BUCHANAN (1980* Te Ati Awa/Taranaki) is a New Zealand artist living
in Berlin. Buchanan’s work is primarily concerned with the various
systems at play in the production of culture such as libraries,
collections, and artistic practice itself. Her process often begins
in the archive, where case studies, artefacts, or works by other
artists act as departure points for an interrogation of art as a
discourse of organizing, narrating, and problematising the world in
which we live. The construction of the public moment is crucial and
is viewed as strategically staging the parameters of encounter and
the manifold power-structures that subsequently come into focus. She
has realized commissions at, amongst others, Adam Art Gallery,
Wellington; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Tate Modern, London; The
Showroom, London; If I Can’t dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of
Your Revolution, Amsterdam, the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju and the
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
BUCHANAN (1980* Te Ati Awa/Taranaki) is a New Zealand artist living
in Berlin. Buchanan’s work is primarily concerned with the various
systems at play in the production of culture such as libraries,
collections, and artistic practice itself. Her process often begins
in the archive, where case studies, artefacts, or works by other
artists act as departure points for an interrogation of art as a
discourse of organizing, narrating, and problematising the world in
which we live. The construction of the public moment is crucial and
is viewed as strategically staging the parameters of encounter and
the manifold power-structures that subsequently come into focus. She
has realized commissions at, amongst others, Adam Art Gallery,
Wellington; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Tate Modern, London; The
Showroom, London; If I Can’t dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of
Your Revolution, Amsterdam, the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju and the
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
ART
WORKS:
RUTH
BUCHANAN
BUCHANAN
TITLE:
Staunch, IN and break, break, break
Staunch, IN and break, break, break
YEAR:
2018
2018
MATERIAL:
Chain curtaining with aluminum mounts
Chain curtaining with aluminum mounts
TITLE:
Wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans
Wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans
YEAR:
2016/2018
2016/2018
MATERIAL:
Spray paint on wall
Spray paint on wall
DAMON
ZUCCONI
ZUCCONI
Eurphobia
Milii
Milii
YEAR:
2018
2018
Hahnemuhle
photo rag
photo rag
LAUREL
SCHWULST, SYDNEY SHEN, & DAMON ZUCCONI
SCHWULST, SYDNEY SHEN, & DAMON ZUCCONI
TITLE
Serpentine
Serpentine
YEAR:
2016
2016
MATERIAL:
Video, 1 minute, text, synthetic voice
Video, 1 minute, text, synthetic voice
LAUREL
SCHWULST & SYDNEY SHEN
SCHWULST & SYDNEY SHEN
TITLE:
Perfume Area
Perfume Area
YEAR:
2015
2015
MATERIAL:
Book published by Ambient Works
Book published by Ambient Works
SHIMMER
TITLE:
On The Waves With
On The Waves With
MATERIAL:
Online Mixtape Program 2018- ongoing
Online Mixtape Program 2018- ongoing
https://soundcloud.com/user-784731696
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